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  • 26.06.2024 – 12:15

    Germany Trade & Invest

    German Environmental Protection Sector Records Impressive Growth

    Berlin (ots) - Germany’s Federal Statistical Office says that 2022 turnover in goods and services in the sector reached 107.5 billion euros – an annual increase of 16.9 percent. Environmental protection is big business in Europe’s largest economy. And it’s grower bigger by the year, as the government figures show. The largest share of the nearly 108 billion euros of turnover in the sector came in climate ...

  • 19.06.2024 – 14:33

    BVR Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken

    BVR: Council of the EU’s decision on CMDI acknowledges institutional protection but improvements are still needed

    Berlin (ots) - The Council of the European Union (EU) has today decided on its general approach regarding the European Commission’s proposed legislation for amending the crisis management and deposit insurance framework (CMDI review). The Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken (BVR) [National ...

  • 11.06.2024 – 16:53

    Germany Trade & Invest

    OECD Deems Germany “Global Leader” in Artificial Intelligence

    Berlin (ots) - In a new report, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development found that Germany was a world-class environment for AI and pointed out room for further development and growth. The OECD study “Artificial Intelligence Review of Germany” praised Europe’s largest economy for showing “vision” and “leadership” in becoming one of the ...

  • 11.06.2024 – 13:00

    Germany Trade & Invest

    Germany Leads Europe, Second in World in EV Production

    Berlin (ots) - The German automotive industry association VDA says that 995,000 purely electric vehicles rolled off German assembly lines in 2023. All told, some 1.27 million purely electric (BEV) and hybrid (PHEV) vehicles were made in Germany in 2023, the second highest number in the world behind China. China dominates global EV production, but the vast majority of its cars are sold domestically. By contrast 76 percent ...

  • 07.06.2024 – 12:42

    Schertz Bergmann Rechtsanwälte

    PRESSRELEASE Alexander Zverev

    Berlin (ots) - As lawyers for Alexander Zverev, we declare on behalf of our client that the criminal proceedings under file number 250 Cs 184/23 have been dropped: The criminal proceedings against Alexander Zverev were dropped and the case was terminated today by the court with the consent of the public prosecutor's office, Ms. Brenda Patea as joint plaintiff and Alexander Zverev's defence lawyer. The penalty order is now groundless. Alexander Zverev has agreed to this ...

  • 06.06.2024 – 15:46

    Germany Trade & Invest

    Germany Sets Quarterly Record for Renewable Energy Generation

    Berlin (ots) - European largest economy generated and fed into the national grid 121.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in the first quarter of 2024. Renewables accounted for 58.4 percent of all electricity produced in Germany in the first three months of this year. That is more than for any quarter since statistics of this sort began to be collected in 2018. The 121.5 billion kilowatt hours represented an annual ...