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Does farming need government support to work efficiently?
In 2020, there were farm law protests in India, related to concern of farmer losing certain government support from Indian govt.
I thought this was maybe due to India being a third world country and ...
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How did consumer gas prices change in Latvia relative to Germany, following the substantial reduction of Russian imports in Latvia 2015-2021?
The 3 Baltic countries have announced that they apparently import zero Russian gas now. More interestingly, this was a gradual reduction, e.g.
In 2015, nearly 100 per cent of Lithuania's gas supplies ...
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Where does the AfD stand on rental price freezes?
It seems to me that the SPD is largely in favor of such measures (rental price freezes) while the CDU generally opposes them.
Does the AfD have an identifiable position on this matter? (I think this ...
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Is the cap on rental prices in Berlin lower than the average price in some Eastern Europe capitals? If so, what justifies this level?
I could be wrong about this, but it seems to me that the 9.8 euros/sq.m. that appears to be recently imposed cap on rentals in Berlin is lower than the average rental price for housing in Prague 13 ...
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Why did Berlin freeze the rent prices as opposed to letting the market set the price?
This EuroNews article tells us about the Berlin freezing of rent prices:
Berlin is freezing the rents of 1.5 million apartments for the next
five years starting this Sunday in a controversial ...
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Why does Germany have a static "debt brake" value when a value that can be easily changed seems to make more sense?
According to this article, Germany has to rely on some tricks to circumvent the hard limit mentioned in the Constitution:
Germany is considering setting up independent public agencies that could ...
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Is there any European Union country that had or have a "debt brake" similar to Germany?
Germany has in place a "debt brake":
In 2009 it was approved with a two-thirds majority both by the
Bundestag and the Bundesrat. This decision will lead to public budgets
without structural ...
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How can Germany increase investments in Russia while EU economic sanctions against Russia are still in place?
According to Wikipedia EU economical sanctions against Russia are still in place:
The sanctions by the European Union and United States continue to be
in effect as of May 2019. In July 2018, the ...
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Why does Berlin have debt issues in opposition to many other European capital cities?
According to this article Berlin seems to be a strange capital city when it comes to debt:
In almost every European country the capital is the engine of the
economy. But a new study shows there ...
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Did Germany profit from the (third) Greek bailout?
From an article published in June 2018 on thelocal.de:
Berlin has been one of the main lenders to Greece during its debt crisis. While conservative parties warned that supporting Greece would come ...
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What's the EU (or at least German) view on the definition of currency manipulation?
The US has a statutory definition of currency manipulation; while some US economists don't quite agree with the legal definition, nevertheless the topic is fairly widely discussed in the US in ...
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How do you explain the change in population ratio of Germany vs. Switzerland since 1945?
When you read newspapers nowadays, you'd get the opinion that the economy in Germany is doing "great".
However, when I plot the population development in Germany vs. Switzerland, I get a very ...
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How does legalized prostitution affect human trafficking, if at all?
When reading up on prostitution in places like Nevada, Greece, Mexico, Germany, the Netherlands, et cetera; one reoccurring theme I keep see popping up is that Human Trafficking seems to become a ...
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Why would a country ever store its gold deposits abroad?
I just learned from this question that Germany is storing its gold reserves around the globe.
Why would a country store any of its gold reserves abroad, instead of well-protected inside the country? ...
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