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Self-driving cars are the long-term goal of major car manufacturers. Tesla, Mercedes and Toyota, for example, are working on pilot projects, but tech giants such as Apple and Google are also working on autonomous driving.
But autonomous driving in shipping? Ghost ships? This article shows how digitalisation is bringing about lasting change to the labour market.
Available anytime on YouTube (19:29 min).
The chairwoman of the Desiderius Erasmus Foundation gives a lecture on restrictions on religious freedom worldwide. She also points out that the German government is failing to address the dangers of the creeping Islamisation of Germany and Europe.
According to the German government, two per cent of Germany's land area should be available for wind turbines from 2035 onwards in order to achieve climate targets. Two per cent is equivalent to a good 7,150 square kilometres, about eight times the size of Berlin.
As part of the necessary austerity measures taken by the federal government, long-standing tax exemptions for farmers were abolished from the 2024 budget onwards. This meant that the exemption from motor vehicle tax for agricultural vehicles and diesel subsidies were to be abolished.
The „Supply Chain Due Diligence Act“, as it is officially called, requires larger companies with 3,000 or more employees to ensure compliance with human rights throughout their entire supply chain for purchases and imports from 1 January 2023 onwards.
India is the largest recipient of German development aid payments. According to OECD data, around $1.313 billion went to the world's most populous country – and fifth-largest economy – in 2021.
Weekend seminar in the Friedrichshafen area 2–3 March 2024
If there is renewed debate about the nation today, it is because all the talk about the „post-national era“ cannot hide the fact that the nation is an important foundation of the democratic state and that the nation state is an important building block of the international order.