The most important financial experts in the USA were completely off the mark with their forecasts for 2021. There are several reasons for this collective misjudgment, writes Jason Furman. One model is particularly suitable for assessing the situation more realistically.
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Negotiations on a successor to the Privacy Shield are in full swing. But the basic problem remains almost impossible to solve: Without changes to the legal framework in the USA, the project will hardly be able to stand before the CJEU. Jordan Francis argues for an interim solution with comparatively minor changes.
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The preservation of tropical rainforests is of great importance for global climate goals. Global agreements are important, but a change in forest management and thus an end to deforestation can only succeed with the right policies on the ground, writes Pedro Frizo in today's Opinion.
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The transformation to a climate-neutral society and economy while maintaining prosperity is the defining task of the coming years. To achieve this, Europe must now set the right course, writes Jochen Reinschmidt of the German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association. This also includes standardization.
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After the climate conference in Glasgow, the Global South is in danger of no longer believing the promises of the industrialized countries on climate financing. This trust gap must be closed quickly, demands Susi Dennison of the European Council on Foreign Relations. She outlines ways in which the EU could meaningfully engage in the debate and explains the potential of green technologies.
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If the Green Deal is to succeed without the EU becoming increasingly dependent on third parties, it urgently needs to reform its state aid law, writes Michael Niese, managing director of the Wirtschaftsvereinigung Metalle, in his guest article.
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Previous federal governments have tried out several variants to better coordinate digital policy. With the traffic light government, a different approach with distributed competences is now being chosen again, without a clear leader. Many changes are good, but whether the promised departure will succeed? Stefan Heumann explains the new distribution of competences in the federal government.
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For an equitable structural shift away from fossil fuels, the enormous gaps in climate protection measures must be closed – between what is necessary for a 1.5 degree path and what is currently being done and planned. Jörg Haas and Lili Fuhr of the Heinrich Böll Foundation provide an analysis.
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Germany and France disagree on EU climate policy: from taxonomy to emissions trading to CO2 border adjustment. Götz Reichert of the Centre for European Policy (CEP) nevertheless sees potential for Franco-German compromises.
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The other member states have hidden behind the EU Commission and the ECJ for too long, criticises Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). This has only served to swell the crisis of the rule of law in Hungary and Poland. Now it's up to the governments to resolve the conflict.
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