Panorama

Based on the current legal framework and recent developments, an alarming future scenario can be drawn up in which the Labour Security Act (ASG) leads to massive forced mobilisations of civilians in the event of a defence emergency. While this scenario is... [...]

In the practice of real war, the supposed guarantee of the Basic Law on conscientious objection is a mere illusion, a farce that does not live up to its name. The fundamental right, the service with the weapon for reasons of conscience... [...]

The so-called throttlement ban is allegedly a bulwark against excessive tax burden. Formally, it is intended to prevent the state from "strangling" its citizens and companies economically and destroying their existence through excessively high taxes. In the... [...]

The regression of the Sorbian education system takes place in silent indifference and often in deliberately ignoring the legitimate resistance of an entire community. Schools in Lusatia were closed, although parents tirelessly protested and developed alternative concepts.... [...]

The wealth tax is a symbol of the blatant inequality, an ideological mistake full of false promises, bureaucratic violence and economic destructiveness. It pretends to create justice - but what it actually produces is uncertainty, frustration,... [...]

The progressive and ever-growing bureaucratization in the public service, civil service and state institutions has long since crossed a critical threshold. This threshold has been crossed because the negative consequences for the economy are... [...]

Behind the facades of law, control and public administration, there is a world of shadows that is often suppressed in political discourse: the actual extent of corruption, infidelity and insider trading among civil servants. The mechanisms are multifaceted, the networks... [...]

The fundamental right to informal self-determination and the right to inspect the files once form central protective walls of individual autonomy and transparency in the democratic constitutional state. Originally conceived as bulwarks against state arbitrariness and intrusion, they ensure every citizen's... [...]