The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has ruled the German inheritance tax in its current form illegal. Inheritance tax breaks for family-run businesses, the judges decided, violate the constitutional…
During the 20th yearly session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 20) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 195 member states are struggling to propose a draft agreement for…
Today the German Constitutional Court decided to submit the ECB’s OMT programme for examination to the European Court of Justice. ZEW-President Prof. Dr. Clemens Fuest reacts to the court’s decision as follows.…
ZEW President Prof. Clemens Fuest delivered an expert statement for the oral hearing in the ESM/ECB principal proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court regarding the European Central Bank’s policy to…
