The digital product passport is intended to bundle environmentally relevant information such as materials or repairability of a product in a digital system. If the capital goods industry is ignored in its conception, bureaucratic chaos could follow, especially for smaller and medium-sized companies, fears VDMA President Karl Haeusgen.
Von Redaktion Table
The new cabinet is in place, but responsibilities are still being wrangled over. But it is foreseeable that the Greens will shape German policy in the EU – and thus secure a key position of power for themselves.
Von Till Hoppe
Mit einer Umstrukturierung der Klimapolitik will die neue Bundesregierung die Rivalität zwischen Umwelt- und Wirtschaftsministerium beenden. Damit soll Deutschland in Europa vom Bremser zum Antreiber beim Klimaschutz werden. Mit Gegenwind wird das neue „Superministerium“ unter Robert Habeck dennoch rechnen müssen. Insbesondere vom Koalitionspartner FDP.
Von Timo Landenberger
China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was met with high hopes in the Western world. The integration of the emerging country into the multilateral organization was supposed to promote not only global prosperity, but also free entrepreneurial activity in China. These hopes were largely disappointed. Although prosperity has increased, China is still not a free market economy.
Von Felix Lee
