In unseren Supermärkten haben sich allerlei Produktaufschriften durchgesetzt, die vom fairen Handel bis zu verschiedenen Umweltstandards reichen. „Ohne Palmöl“ ist eine Beschriftung, die mittlerweile auf einer großen Menge von Produkten zu finden ist. Verbraucher fragen sich vielleicht: Was ist so schlimm an Palmöl?
« Paresseux », « sans instruction », « dangereux »! On a beaucoup parlé des migrants venant d’Afrique et du Moyen-Orient, depuis le début de ce qu’on appelle la crise des réfugiés. Afin de répondre aux arguments en faveur de la création d’emplois réguliers pour les migrants, prenons l’exemple de l’Allemagne, qui a été parmi les pays les plus accueillants envers les personnes déplacées: […]
When it comes to France and its elections, the attention span seems to go by who’s the current president, and what Marine Le Pen is doing. Little wonder that the anglophone media is currently reporting very little about the candidate who lost against Emmanuel Macron in May this year, as Le Pen has been very […]
This article is part of a report which I drafted for a FinTech company based in the United Kingdom. It has been submitted in the month of August, which is why some facts might be outdated. Since the end of the steel industry in the Greater Region (the area of Saarland, Lorraine, Luxembourg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Wallonia […]
Fin septembre, le Département du commerce américain a publié un communiqué dans lequel il a annoncé de nouvelles taxes douanières sur les importations d’avions canadiens.
The European Union has finally put an end to nearly 50-years of quotas on sugar prices. Despite the seemingly good news, the measure is overshadowed by the fact that the EU not only maintains large tariffs on sugar imports, it also recently announced that it will probably continue backdoor-protectionism regardless.
In September, the finance ministers of 10 European Union member states signed a letter in which they call for a change in corporate taxation of tech services. The idea: tech giants such as Google or Facebook aren’t paying their fair share. It turns out that unfortunately, both the European Union and certain members of Congress […]
This article is part of a report which I drafted for a FinTech company based in the United Kingdom. It has been submitted in the month of August, which is why some facts might be outdated. Out of all the countries on the European continent, Germany has stood out as being the most permissive when […]
This article is part of a report which I drafted for a FinTech company based in the United Kingdom. It has been submitted in the month of August, which is why some facts might be outdated. For Luxembourg, a country of the approximate combined size of Malta, Andorra and Singapore, attracting investors has rarely been […]
This article is part of a report which I drafted for a FinTech company based in the United Kingdom. It has been submitted in the month of August, which is why some facts might be outdated (especially in this case, as this post dates back before the election in Germany). This article was completed at […]
Bill Wirtz 