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Industrial services provider Bilfinger is benefiting from the growing demand for energy efficiency, outsourcing, and modernisation through digitalisation.

Bilfinger-CEO Schulz wants to see faster implementation from Berlin

Thomas Schulz is urging the coalition government to move faster with its initiatives to help the economy. The Bilfinger CEO was speaking after announcing the company's second quarter earnings.Show more

Industrial services provider

von Martin Dunzendorfer

Food handout in a church in Potsdam

Measuring justice in the economy and society

A recent study conducted on behalf of the Foundation for Family Businesses sets out a range of factors to measure "justice" in the German economy and society. Citizens consider the fairness of rules and opportunities to be more important than achieving the most equal possible distribution of income.Show more

German Economic Institute study

von Stephan Lorz

Things could be better for Germany as a business location. Many of the problems are self inflicted.

Bureaucracy and regulation deter companies from locating in Germany

A country comparison by the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) concludes that bureaucracy and over regulation are stifling growth and making Germany an unattractive business location. Show more

ZEW Study on Germany as a Business Location

von Stephan Lorz

The demographic trend is slowing down the growth and dynamism of the German economy and forcing it to use a cane.

The renewal of the German economy has stalled

The Bundesbank warns that the dynamism of the German economy has been slowing dramatically for years. Fewer and fewer companies are entering the market, and fewer and fewer are leaving it. This is slowing down growth and is poison for the location.Show more

Economic policies

von Stephan Lorz

Many jobs are now in jeopardy because they can be taken over by artificial intelligence (AI).

Concerns about the emergence of an AI proletariat

It is not yet clear how many jobs will be lost or created as a result of AI. The restructuring phase poses new questions for tax and economic policy. And there is a risk of social unrest if no countermeasures are taken.Show more

Artificial intelligence

von Stephan Lorz