Even though an important provider of machinery, with merely 4.1% of the world’s wind turbine installations itself, Germany is only a small player on the global market.

After the catastrophic events in the wake of Fukushima’s nuclear disaster, which shook Germany’s anti-atomic movement to new heights, RWE remains content on its energy strategy.
When the headlines of Japan’s nuclear accident hit Germany’s newsstands just over a month ago, the previously considerably diminished anti-nuclear movement immediately recovered to the full scale protest it was [...]

A curious case stirs the Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht): A Muslim employee refuses to stack beer – referencing religious freedom. The court agrees in its recent decision. The proceeding now goes into a new round.
According to the court, people of Muslim faith may refuse to handle liquor and other alcoholic beverages on grounds of [...]

Defense Minister Karl-Theordor zu Guttenberg is facing allegations of plagiarism for his dissertation. According to German magazine “Der Spiegel”, Guttenberg commissioned a study on the relation of god to the American constitution at the academic council of the German parilament (Bundestag) and then proceeded to include the resulting paper almost entirely in his dissertation - [...]

In a guest commentary in German trade newspaper “Handelsblatt” published on January 28th., German Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth; Kristina Schröder has announced a plan for more women in leading positions in business.
The core of this multi step plan is to be constituted by a provisional obligation for self-regulation which [...]

At it’s annual stockholders meeting on January 25th, Siemens stockholders decided to cut the bonuses for board members and keep their pay on a fixed level. According to the evaluation of the chairman of the advisory board, Gerhard Cromme, this would facilitate a more independant board, and grant a further improvement of the checks and [...]

Germany may just be on its way to a devestating blow in agricultural exports. After toxic dioxin had been found in eggs and other chicken products just a few weeks ago, the repercussions may be dire. The state attorneys office is currently investigating several bird feed producers under the suspicion that the toxic substances had [...]

More than 23.500 tax evaders have voluntarily disclosed having evaded taxes to the fiscal authorities over the course of the last year.
On December, 24th 2010 newspaper „Die Welt“ quoted a poll with the Ministry of Finance and the regional tax offices of the federal states indicating that Baden-Württemberg alone received an impressive number of 7.409 [...]

Companies operating in more than one Member State in the European Union still have to face various tax obstacles.
The European Commission believes that these obstacles can only be overcome in a systematic way by providing companies with a consolidated corporate tax base for their EU-wide activities.
Amongst others, the Commission´s Directorate-General responsible for Taxation and the [...]

The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (Bundesverfassungsgericht, BVerfG) decreed with its November 9th Decision which was published on November 30th that the initial moment of suspicion needed for a search warrant could be provided on the basis of data sold to the Federal Republic of Germany by a Liechtenstein informer.
The constitutional complaint is against [...]