Category: Finance
Acquisition – Concerns about Microsoft’s plans – Economy
Opposition to Microsoft’s billion-dollar acquisition of Activision Blizzard is growing. The EU will soon send the US software company a list of its concerns, an insider said on Monday. The…
Major order – Siemens delivers 1200 locomotives to India – Economy
Siemens’ rail division has received the largest locomotive order in its history from India. Overall, it is about the delivery of 1200 electric locomotives over a period of eleven years…
Meetings: Expert thinks many are a huge waste of time
Do meetings really make sense? More and more companies are asking themselves the question – and rightly so, says expert Dirk Schmachtenberg. By Victoria Robertz Dirk Schmachtenberg is Managing Director…
Gas exports – record year for Norway – economy
High gas prices brought Norway a record trade surplus last year. The Scandinavian country had total exports worth around 2.6 trillion Norwegian kroner (243 billion euros) in 2022, which corresponded…
Animal welfare: Özdemir must remain firm – economy
The Minister of Agriculture and his initiative for more animal welfare in the pigsty are met with anger and resistance – from farmers and also from their own government. If…
Ulrich Reuter (CSU) becomes the new savings bank president
The decision was preceded by months of wrangling: On Monday, the influential representatives of the regional savings bank associations now agreed on the CSU politician Ulrich Reuter as the new…
Christian Lindner rebuilds his ministry – economy
When Christian Linder delivered his inaugural speech at the Treasury Department on December 9, 2021, he told the staff he wanted to run the institution as one where “loyalty, personal…
WEF 2023: What the World Economic Forum in Davos is really about – Economy
There has been a lot of work going on in Davos for days. The shops on the Promenade, the main street of the town with 12,000 inhabitants in the mountains…
Why there is no works council at Sixt after all – Economy
from Dieter Surig From the point of view of the three Sixt employees, the lawsuit before the Regional Labor Court (LAG) in Düsseldorf was worthwhile. The women had previously been…
Davos: Siemens calls for a new globalization – economy
Interviewed by Caspar Buses Jim Hagemann Snabe, 57, spent part of his childhood in Greenland, later studied economics and came to the German software group SAP, where he was boss…