Tag: Monopoly Commission
Foreign investors rake in record-high dividends
Brenntag, Vonovia, Mercedes-Benz, Deutsche Boerse The proportion of foreign investors in the Dax companies is currently more than 50 percent. (Photo: Brenntag, dpa, Mercedes Benz AG, Getty Images) Dusseldorf With…
Foreign investors rake in record-high dividends
Brenntag, Vonovia, Mercedes-Benz, Deutsche Boerse The proportion of foreign investors in the Dax companies is currently more than 50 percent. (Photo: Brenntag, dpa, Mercedes Benz AG, Getty Images) Dusseldorf With…
Deutsche Bahn: works council fights against split plans
Hamm The employees of Deutsche Bahn (DB) are resisting new demands to separate the rail network from the state-owned company’s operations. “If the integrated group were to be split up,”…
Lindner saves on the railway network
Berlin Deutsche Bahn AG will receive far less money than planned from the federal government to modernize the rail network. As the Handelsblatt learned from government circles, the federal company…
Monopolies Commission calls for the group to be broken up
ICE The Monopolies Commission had previously recommended dividing the railways into an infrastructure and a transport division. (Photo: IMAGO/Michael Gstettenbauer) Berlin The Monopolies Commission, a body that advises the federal…
How Telekom uses its market power in fiber optic expansion
Berlin Shortly before Pentecost, association representatives and managers from telecommunications companies met in Bonn for the “David versus Goliath” duel. Not in the corporate headquarters of the industry giant Deutsche…
Consumer advocates warn of EU tax for Netflix, Youtube & Co.
Netflix According to the telecoms industry, the five largest online services account for around 55 percent of data traffic. (Photo: Reuters) Berlin The EU Commission’s plans to share the costs…
Monopolies Commission speaks out against data tolls
data center The big tech companies route enormous amounts of data through European networks. The Federal Government’s Monopolies Commission is nevertheless against an additional levy on network operators. (Photo: dpa)…
“The flood of hip and knee joint operations must end”
Interview with Karl Lauterbach “We operate more heart valves in Germany than in any other country in Europe.” (Photo: dpa) Berlin Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) has defended his…
Commission sees no improvement in supply in rural areas
Karl Lauterbach The Minister of Health is planning a large-scale hospital reform. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The Monopolies Commission assumes that the precarious situation of clinics in rural areas will not…
Russell Reynolds poaches Mark Spencer Klimmek from Egon Zehnder
Mark Spencer Klimmek The consultant is to set up the office in Berlin for Russell Reynolds. (Photo: Russell Reynolds) Dusseldorf Matthias Scheiff has set a clear goal: the head of…
How monopolies siphon off our wealth
sharks The big eat the small: this is how the modern market works. The big corporations have more and more power, but small companies have little chance. Global monopolies are…
How monopolies siphon off our wealth
sharks The big eat the small: this is how the modern market works. The big corporations have more and more power, but small companies have little chance. Global monopolies are…
Gas, oil, supply chains – how global monopolies siphon off our prosperity
sharks The big eat the small: this is how the modern market works. The big corporations have more and more power, but small companies have little chance. Global monopolies are…
Gas, oil, supply chains – how global monopolies siphon off our prosperity
sharks The big eat the small: this is how the modern market works. The big corporations have more and more power, but small companies have little chance. Global monopolies are…
The Germany network could still fail
Dusseldorf By 2023, 1,100 federally funded fast-charging locations with regulated sales prices for electricity are to be created. This “Germany network” is one of the largest infrastructure projects in Germany.…
The Germany network could still fail
Dusseldorf By 2023, 1,100 federally funded fast-charging locations with regulated sales prices for electricity are to be created. This “Germany network” is one of the largest infrastructure projects in Germany.…
Pharmaceutical companies are threatening job cuts
Berlin The German pharmaceutical companies are resisting plans by Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD), who wants to collect billions from them to financially stabilize the health system. Companies are…
Data leak exposes dubious lobbying by Uber
new York Since taking office, Uber boss Dara Khosrowshahi has certainly been trying to improve the image of the driving service. However, a massive data leak is now causing the…
Monopoly Commission thinks nothing of Habeck’s excess profit plan
Berlin Robert Habeck (Greens) could not be present at the presentation due to short-notice changes in the schedule. But the more than 300-page long main report by the Monopolies Commission…