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opinion rent cap Renting is in the future only for the daredevil Stand: 21:11 clock | Reading time: 2 minutes "Massive interference with the ownership of landlords" The Berlin Senate has decided on the so-called Mietendeckel. The rents are to be frozen for five years. Dietmar Deffner in conversation with Robert Halver from Baader Bank. … Read more
The Federal government wants to get information from the South German newspaper and the news agency Reuters, the economics professor Isabel Schnabel for the vacant place in the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) nominate. A corresponding proposal by Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) will decide the Cabinet on Wednesday, according to reports. … Read more
The French supermarket opened without staff. Photo: dpa / Oliver Berg The retail chains outnumber themselves with ingenuity when it comes to the saving of personnel and costs and profit maximization. A provisional record was set last Sunday in a large supermarket in Angers, France, which had opened completely without sales staff. It was billed … Read more
More questions than answers – AKK proposal causes controversy Of the Coalition partner SPD feels left out, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas dupes because the Defense Minister interferes without agreement in the core area of his portfolio. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) may have at least stretched her area of expertise with her proposal to set up an … Read more
Putin and Erdogan (r.) Russia wants to patrol with Turkey in the Syrian border area to Turkey. (Photo: AFP) Sochi, Beirut Turkey extends the cease-fire for northern Syria, initially scheduled for Tuesday, by another 150 hours or more than six days. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after a meeting of Kremlin leader Vladimir … Read more
"Malt, huh?" Mumbles the older man at the farmer's market in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, at the foothills of the Harz Mountains. He turns the small jam jar with the amber jelly in his hand. "And how does that taste?" Yes, how does that taste? For jam, the question is not, it tastes just strawberry, cherry or apricot. … Read more