Panorama

The metaphor of late Roman decadence meets modern political elites like a whiplash because it paints a picture of aloof waste in the midst of collapsing structures. Resources and luxury focus on a tiny layer while public infrastructure... [...]

With the advent of programmable money, also known as the digital central bank currency or smart money, a new chapter in the development of finance begins. While the technical possibilities of not only capturing transactions, but also specifically to... [...]

Demands for increased taxes usually come from politicians, a group within society that rarely actually acts productively - often it wasn't even before their political career - and... [...]

State shadow profiles through the networking of personal data tear a gaping hole in the basic feeling of security and self-determination that everyone expects as their inviolable right. In the census judgment, the Federal Constitutional Court has the right to informational... [...]

Criticism of the old debt law is more than a detailed debate about columns of numbers, it is an outcry about experienced injustice, legal constructions and the feeling that the lifetime of an entire population has been devalued. Many former GDR citizens feel the... [...]

The takeover of the DDR-Bank by West German financial institutions and the associated conversion of previous state grants and subsidies into interest-bearing loans was an abyss that plunged many GDR companies into an existential crisis. The subsidies that... [...]

In recent years, the number of unofficial and personal meetings between government officials, members of the federal government and various lobby players has increased rapidly. These informal encounters usually take place without protocol, without public documentation and outside of parliamentary control... [...]