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“Germany has become too expensive”

FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai warns of additional burdens for companies in Germany. And explains why he firmly believes that the Liberals will achieve double-digit results in the 2025 federal election. Germany’s economy is not moving. The job market is booming because there is a shortage of skilled workers everywhere. At the same time, however, […]

Pension: Costs are falling – measured in terms of economic power

Expenditure on statutory pensions is reaching ever-increasing billions, and the federal government is contributing a lot of tax money. However, the gross domestic product grew much faster. According to data from the federal government, Germany is currently spending a smaller proportion of its economic power on statutory pensions than in 2009 – despite a growing […]

G20 discusses reform of international institutions

The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East dominated the first day of the meeting of leading and emerging economic powers in Rio. Now it’s about partly outdated international structures. The foreign ministers of the G20 round of leading and emerging economic powers want to discuss reform of international institutions this Thursday. At the group’s […]

Getting crises in Ukraine and the Middle East under control

The foreign ministers of the leading economic powers are meeting in Rio shortly before the second anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine. These are consultations in the shadow of global crises. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has called on the G20 group of leading economic powers to use their weight to find a solution to […]

Baerbock to Putin before the G20 meeting: The world will not be forgotten

Shortly before the second anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine, the foreign ministers of the leading economic powers are meeting in Brazil. These are consultations in the shadow of global crises. Before a meeting of the group of leading and emerging economic powers (G20), Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock recalled Russian President Vladimir Putin’s responsibility […]