A new “Catalogue of Encouraged Industries for Foreign Investment” will take effect in February. It offers concrete clues as to where Chinese industry needs expertise from abroad. German investment already surged last year.
By Julia Fiedler
Chinese property developer Vanke is fueling fresh concerns about the country’s crisis-hit real estate sector. A potential default could trigger renewed turbulence in financial markets.
By Marcel Grzanna
Since late November, India has dramatically reduced its bureaucratic tangle. The reform is considered the biggest modernization of labor law since independence. If all parties follow through, the country could compete with China in global supply chains.
By Marcel Grzanna
A study by the Center for Sustainable Transformation, MHP and BW Consulting examines how the German Armed Forces and the private sector can improve cooperation in order to gain a better overview of logistics in the event of a defense situation.
By Lisa-Martina Klein
At COP30 in Belém, 19 CEOs and board members of German companies are calling for policies that reconcile economic and climate interests instead of pitting them against each other.
By Malte Kreutzfeldt
This time, the European Parliament of Enterprises took place without any members of the EU Commission. Company representatives see this as a “fatal signal”.
By Till Hoppe
Climate protection is a growth market offering entrepreneurial opportunities and can improve the competitiveness of the economy. This is demonstrated in a new study by Deloitte and KfW Research. KfW has announced that it will also invest in climate action in Brazil.
By Alexandra Endres
The Fourth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party has been discussing the future political compass of the People’s Republic of China since Monday. German companies will also feel the effects of the strategic realignment based on security issues.
By Marcel Grzanna
The debate over Parliament’s own-initiative report on the 28th regime for European startups highlights the difficult balance between harmonization goals and political feasibility.
By János Allenbach-Ammann
In order to bring the Chinese-controlled tech producer Nexperia under control as pressure from the USA mounts, the Netherlands applied an emergency law from the 1950s. The EU should be in a better legal position to deal with similar cases in the future.
By Marcel Grzanna and Fabian Peltsch
