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Church Record number of Church tax It sounds like a contradiction: The members of the Christian churches in Germany have been falling for years. Nevertheless, the income from the Church tax have achieved in the past year, a record high. The Archdiocese of Munich is the richest in Germany The reason for the record revenue…

Automotive industry VW bosses apologize On the first VW annual General meeting to ask after the announcement of the diesel scandal of the Supervisory Board and Chairman of the Board, the shareholders for forgiveness and promise more transparency. VW Supervisory Board chief Hans Dieter Pötsch has promoted an understanding of the previously missing report on…

Investments Direct investment has also soared Cross-border investments have increased in the past year by almost 40 percent. However, at these growth rates it will remain, warns Unctad in its World Investment Report in 2016. In 2015, the value of cross-border direct investment (FDI) has increased worldwide by a whopping 38 per cent to 1,760…

The Second World War Comment: guilt and responsibility Also a man’s age after the beginning of the German Attack on the Soviet Union, this war is not forgotten. From the historical guilt of responsibility for the present, at the same time gives Felix Steiner says. The German soldiers cemetery in the Russian Sebesh, close to…

Art Tehran meets Berlin: culture project with the potential for conflict The collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary art, travels abroad for the first time. Foreign Minister Steinmeier has suggested the project, a Holocaust-cartoon contest brings him in expository. It seems so, as the nuclear agreement with Iran, the Western countries have triggered a…

UK Donald Trump’s Scotland Connection Many Scots are not at all happy about the upcoming visit of Donald Trump. You know him primarily as an Investor of luxury Golf resorts. “The world has asked me to be here,” said Donald Trump in July last year, when he was asked why he had made the nomination,…

Policy In the shadow of the sport: If laws are beside the point Higher VAT and health insurance contributions, stricter reporting law: in the past, in the shadow of soccer tournaments controversial laws were passed. Coincidence or political calculation? Germany is in a frenzy of joy. “La Team” get the group victory in the preliminary…

Bundeswehr German army to stop the IS-weapons smuggler The Federal government wants to combat the causes of Flight. An example of this is the EU military mission, “Sophia”, now gets new powers. The previous experiences were, however, mixed. The area of application of the existing EU-Mission “Sophia” comprises an area roughly the size of Germany.…

euromaxx ambiente To visit in a luxury property on the island of Sylt The house in which Ralph Justus mouse lives on the island of Sylt and works, has value, an estimate of seven million euros. There are two living rooms, four bedrooms and plenty of space for friends. Watch the Video 03:14 Share To…

UEFA EURO 2016 Ten Lessons from the preliminary round Be happy with the Icelanders, wonder about the tournament mode, make brawling Fans – 36 EM-Play, it is time to draw a balance sheet. Our subjective views on the Teachings of the first round. 1. With all due respect, the mode of cheese is There are…

Central banks The fear of “Brexit-Crash” No matter how the decision goes down: After the Brexit Referendum, it could go in the financial markets are stormy. The Central banks want to do all in our power to prevent a “black Friday”. The popular vote of the British on a possible exit from the European Union…

UEFA EURO 2016 Comment: 24 Teams is too much The Experiment has failed. The 24 Teams bloated EURO 2016 is not exciting, but arbitrary than previous tournaments. Less is more, says DW sports reporter Jefferson Chase. A lot of games, not always voltage – the preliminary round of the Euro 2016 Two weeks of EM,…

Art Morbid poetry: photographs by Michel Houellebecq in Paris He became famous with the novel “elementary particles”. But Houellebecq has other obsessions: He photographed – very specifically. Artistic photographs of him are now on display in an exhibition in Paris. The Provocateur Not only Smoking is one of his many obsessions, such as the famous…

Germany Study: violence in Catholic handicapped homes everyday The lives of disabled children and young people in Catholic homes between 1949 and 1975 was marked by Isolation, subordination and violence. This was the result of a first comprehensive study of the subject. “Crying was not allowed. And if they did, there was also shock,” recalls…