Tag Archives: Germany

Energy of the future: Transforming Germany’s energy system

By Guest | Published: May 23, 2013

Ensuring a reliable, economically viable and environment-friendly energy supply is one of the great challenges of the 21st century. In 2011 Germany embarked on an ambitious programme to transform its energy system. In future, Germany’s energy supply will be generated primarily from renewables.

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Inequality is back on the agenda in Germany

By Tom Gill | Published: February 12, 2013

Inequality is on the increase in Germany but unions are fighting back and the social democrats may yet win the election later this year.

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Upcoming elections in 2013

By Ben Mackay | Published: January 10, 2013

Israel Benjamin Netanyahu looks set to win re-election on January 22nd. National opinion polls show that Likud and its electoral partnership with the nationalist party Yisrael Beiteinu are in a strong position, and it looks likely they will be able to combine with other right wing parties to form an overall majority.  On Tuesday, the [...]

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Markit: Eurozone manufacturing “shows signs of moderating” (while the UK’s still in a slump)

By Tony Burke | Published: December 17, 2012

The eurozone shows slow signs of improvement as a downgrade looms for the UK’s credit rating – Tony Burke reports on the state of the global economy.

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“An open, united America engaged on the international scene” – the world welcomes Obama’s win

By Dan Holden | Published: November 7, 2012

After a vicious, long and costly election campaign, world leaders react to President Obama’s re-election.

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As Spanish bond yields break 7%, the eurozone banking deal begins to unravel

By Ben Phillips | Published: July 9, 2012

A week ago, Spain secured an advantageous bank deal to drive down soaring bond yields: today, Spanish securities broke the 7% threshold. What’s gone wrong?

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After Italy and Spain play hardball, Europe is a step closer to issuing eurobonds

By Ben Phillips | Published: June 29, 2012

At an overnight EU summit on the debt crisis, Monti and Rajoy face Germany down, securing direct access to bailout funds for struggling banks.

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In austere times, German trade union achieves above-inflation pay rise for workers

By Tony Burke | Published: May 29, 2012

Germany’s giant IG Metall union has secured an inflation-busting pay increase of 4.3% for engineers and metal workers.

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If Liz Truss wants to be more like Germany, she should boost workers’ rights

By Alex Hern | Published: February 20, 2012

Alex Hern shows Liz Truss the piece of data she seems to be ignoring in her attempts to become more like Germany.

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German superunion to begin negotiating for 6.5 per cent wage increase

By Tony Burke | Published: February 18, 2012

Tony Burke examines the future of the IGM, a German superunion, and how they’re weathering the recession

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