Referring to publications of his own from previous years on the crisis and reform of the German "Sozialstaat" (welfare state) the author deals with the question, whether and how the welfare state can be preserved. He critically describes the discussion on the crisis of the welfare state since...

In the German federal elections on September 22, 2013, for the first time after 64 years, the Free Democratic Party (FDP) was not elected to the German federal parliament, the Bundestag, anymore. Less surprising than this fact is the malice of its political opponents with which this landslide...

The Greek parliamentary elections in January .2015 led to a foreseeable change in government. The coalition government between the conservative Nea Dimokratia and of the socialist PASOK, become replaced. by a coalition government between the left wing coalition party SYRIZA and the extreme...

In Asien entsteht eine neue Freihandelszone, und auch Lateinamerika plant den Abschluss eines Handelsabkommens. Führt der Aufstieg der neuen Wachstumsmärkte zu einem neuen Kräfteverhältnis auf dem Weltmarkt und einer Verschiebung des Schwerpunkts des Welthandels? Für Barbara Dluhosch,...