Panorama

Conventional agriculture in Germany is in free fall. While local businesses have been providing security of supply and a wide range of food for decades, today a mix of bureaucratic overload, tax burden and ruinous international price pressure dominates. [...]

The story is a cynical cycle of oppression, an endless nightmare in which the powerful always disarm the weak, rob them of any form of self-assertion and like cattle in the cage of helplessness... [...]

Die Überwachungssoftware Gotham, entwickelt von der US-Firma Palantir, steht längst im Zentrum einer schleichenden Entmachtung der Bürger und einer systematischen Kontrolle ganzer Gesellschaften. Schon der Name Gotham, entlehnt einer finsteren Fantasiewelt, in der ein selbsternannter… [...]

The German real estate landscape is facing a structural collapse in social housing. As the population continues to grow and social inequality is getting worse, more and more social housing is being removed from the portfolio. The narrative of social housing... [...]

The distrust of an exaggerated state urge to collect as much personal data as possible is deeply rooted in society. This critical basic feeling runs across the entire political spectrum, from the left to the... [...]

Germany's government expenditure is faced with a threat that is hardly to be calculated and often underestimated: the obligations arising from pensions for civil servants and employees in the public sector. The so-called pension bomb is becoming one of the biggest dangers for... [...]

The state interest in information about the citizens is a historically grown and fundamentally legitimate concern. Even in ancient times, such as the Romans, statistics and records of the population were kept in order to manage and... [...]

The federal government's financial situation has now crossed a critical threshold - a development that has been ignored, glossed over for years or veiled by daring household constructions. The debt policy of the past years is the result of a structural failure:... [...]

The Lausitz, a region that is historically characterized by its diverse agricultural use, is now at a crossroads where the use of the areas for different purposes is conflicted. The agricultural tradition that... [...]

Deflation, a general drop in price levels, is a multi-layered economic phenomenon that can have both positive and negative consequences for economies. While price cuts based on efficiency increases, in certain historical epochs to prosperity... [...]