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Carolina Ortega Guttack; Carl Mühlbach

Austerity policy is costing us our future

Ahead of this week's Ecofin meeting of EU finance ministers, the NGO Fiscal Future is calling for the EU framework for economic governance to be relaxed to allow sufficient investment for social and environmental goals. The austerity course that Germany is helping to drive forward would be expensive in the long term, write Carolina Ortega Guttack and Carl Mühlbach.

By Experts Table.Briefings

Bergbau

Union puts pressure on mining law reform

According to the Federal Ministry of Economics' response to a minor question from the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, little progress has been made so far in modernizing mining law. Jens Spahn, Deputy Leader of the parliamentary group, is calling for clear measures.

By Leonie Düngefeld