Global economic growth threatens to slow in the coming months. But a hard recession is not looming, according to most economic forecasts. Stephen S. Roach is more skeptical, citing three reasons for his pessimism. Above all, a weak China could drag the global economy down with it.
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Vins d'Alsace and pierogis – that's what's on the Brussels menu this week.
By Claire Stam
China's lockdown-plagued citizens are using the Internet to express their discontent publicly. Online protests and political jokes (段子) are all the rage. Behind their temporary tolerance lies Beijing's calculation. After all, they also serve as an outlet to let off steam dangerous to the regime.
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The impact of the social credit system for companies is often underestimated. Yet, it provides concrete data on the potential reliability of business partners. By also covering local German companies, it increasingly has an impact beyond the country's borders.
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Putin's cold-blooded attack on Ukraine has shown that the member states of the European Union have many more common tasks to perform than the EU Treaty currently provides.
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For years, economic cooperation with China was motivated by the idea of "change through trade". The noble hope behind it: The People's Republic would open up by integrating deeper into the international community and increasingly adapt democratic elements in its political system. The former Vice President of the European Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, Stefan Sack, draws a sobering conclusion. "Change through trade" has worked out, he says, but not at all in the way Germany and Europe had hoped. Instead, we are the ones who have adapted our behavior to Chinese preferences due to the "dependencies of our supply chains and the greed for new growth markets.
By Marcel Grzanna
First the pandemic, now the war: With the pressure from the crises, the climate targets are fading into the background. To achieve them regardless, business and civil society must first and foremost expand and refine the ESG criteria.
By Redaktion Table
Haute cuisine, parliamentary cafeteria and dabbawala – this is what's on the menu in Brussels this week.
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He criticizes rigid deadlines in the Digital Services Act, but welcomes the expansion of service providers to include platforms. In his guest article, Alexander Rabe, managing director of eco, takes a look at key points of the DSA and calls for: only the EU should set the rules.
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Xi Jinping cultivates a veritable cult around China's Great Wall. Yet Mao Zedong considered the ancient structure to be a feudal relic. But that did not stop him from creating a ritual: Foreign dignitaries on a visit to Beijing outdo each other with the length of their walks along the monument.
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