Tag: Foreign trade
Economic check of India: innovative, growing, politically ambivalent?
Dusseldorf India is becoming more and more interesting for many investors worldwide. Measured by nominal GDP, India is the fifth largest economy in the world and, alongside China, is considered…
Russia’s counter-sanctions: Less gas for Germany
Robert Habeck The Federal Minister of Economics commented on the Russian counter-sanctions. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck, the Russian counter-sanctions against Gazprom Germania mean that…
Russia’s counter-sanctions: Less gas for Germany
Robert Habeck The Federal Minister of Economics commented on the Russian counter-sanctions. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck, the Russian counter-sanctions against Gazprom Germania mean that…
RWE increases earnings – depreciation on Russian coal
RWE coal-fired power plant The energy company has written off a long-term coal contract in Russia. (Photo: Bloomberg) Dusseldorf The energy group RWE earned significantly more in the first quarter.…
Siemens withdraws completely from Russia
Maintenance of trains in St. Petersburg Siemens withdraws from Russia. (Photo: picture alliance/dpa) Munich Siemens withdraws completely from Russia after around 170 years. “We condemn the war in Ukraine and…
The EU and Japan are joining forces in digitization
Tokyo In the future, the EU and Japan want to coordinate closely with each other on the development of future digital technologies. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Council…
The West and the Silk Road
After Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine, the world will no longer be the same as before, says Chancellor Olaf Scholz. That is an accurate assessment, especially with regard to the…
Ukraine partially halts gas transfers to Europe
natural gas In Europe, dependence on Russian natural gas is high. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf, Brussels As of Wednesday morning, Ukraine stopped routing Russian gas through the Luhansk Oblast in the…
Moscow bans transactions with former Gazprom subsidiaries abroad
Moscow, Berlin Russia has imposed sanctions on Gazprom Germania and other former subsidiaries of its state-owned gas company. With a total of 31 listed companies, no more business should be…
The worst political earthquake in the English Channel since the Brexit referendum is looming
Johnson at a summit in Brussels in 2019 Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of Great Britain, wants to unilaterally withdraw from the Northern Ireland Protocol of the Brexit Treaty if necessary.…
Joe Biden seeks proximity to China’s neighbors
The Asean states include Vietnam’s communists, Cambodia’s longtime authoritarian ruler and Thailand’s former coup leader. Obama therefore preferred to receive the guests from the Far East in a rather unofficial…
Ukraine partially halts gas transfers to Europe
Gazprom The company recently pumped almost 100 million cubic meters of gas through Ukraine to Europe every day. (Photo: IMAGO/ITAR-TASS) Dusseldorf, Brussels As of Wednesday morning, Ukraine stopped routing Russian…
Why food is getting more expensive
Dusseldorf, Berlin Food prices could continue to rise in the coming months. This is what agricultural economists and consumer experts are assuming. Because the situation on the global agricultural markets…
Foreign Minister Baerbock visits Kyiv – and meets Selenski
Berlin It was a planned visit, but one the details of which were kept top secret for security reasons. The destination of Annalena Baerbock (Greens) only became known on the…
Why food is getting more expensive
Dusseldorf, Berlin Food prices could continue to rise in the coming months. This is what agricultural economists and consumer experts are assuming. Because the situation on the global agricultural markets…
Ukraine War: The Putin Mistake of German Corporations
cartoon (Photo: Kostas Koufogiorgos) It is very easy to say, especially in window speeches about the market economy, that responsibility and liability also go hand in hand with entrepreneurial freedom.…
Foreign Minister Baerbock visits Kyiv – meeting with Kuleba planned
Berlin Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) is the first German cabinet member to travel to the capital Kyiv since the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. There…
How the EU and the USA want to make themselves independent of authoritarian states
Brussels The EU and the USA want to move closer together economically in order to make themselves less susceptible to blackmail from authoritarian states such as China or Russia. At…
Boris Johnson wants to get out of the crisis with Brexit 2.0
British Prime Minister Johnson More prosperity and freedom through maximum distance to the EU. (Photo: dpa) London, Brussels After the disastrous result in the local elections, British Prime Minister Boris…
How the EU and the USA want to make themselves independent of authoritarian states
Brussels The EU and the USA want to move closer together economically in order to make themselves less susceptible to blackmail from authoritarian states such as China or Russia. At…