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– Attacks on the rule of law: for decriminalization of tax law
Civil freedom  - Germany  - Social trust  
For a decriminalization of tax law The head of state of Liechtenstein accused Germany of having "attacked its sovereignty" by accepting that its secret services pay an informant to transmit Liechtenstein banking data to them. “For us, such a thing would be unthinkable. We do not place tax interests above the principles of the rule of law.” “We categorically reject the way the German government is ...Read More >>

– Social capital in Germany
Community  - Germany  - Social capital  
Christmas: the celebration of social bonds? We could imagine: people living in towns with high purchasing power are not the happiest. The well-being of the population is higher outside the centers, where social relations are still intact, reports a study by Deutsche Bank Research. The healthiest Germans apparently live in the Ulm region. Well-being analysis is very trendy in Germany. (…) To identify the problem, researchers from the main German bank identified six criteria: ...Read More >>

– For Rhineland capitalism
Car industry  - Germany  
Rhineland capitalism: jolts or rebound? The European Commission wants to abolish the “Volkswagen law” which prevents a single shareholder from holding more than 20% of VW’s voting rights. Until now, this law protected Volkswagen from foreign investors by capping their voting rights. In 1960, when the German state privatized Volkswagen founded under the Third Reich, the federal government and Lower Saxony each retained 20 pc of the shares. At the same time the Bu...Read More >>

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