Sometimes Florian Bieberbach thinks: Guys, you’re completely unworldly. This one draft from the EU Commission, for example, a directive on the construction of buildings. It stated that new houses should no longer be connected to the electricity grid. Houses should be self-sufficient, with solar panels on the roof and other forms of energy. That might […]
Drums or business studies – Morten Petersen’s path after school was not quite so clear. “I was an enthusiastic drummer, but I was also interested in government affairs,” he recalls. But his interest in business and politics prevailed, much to the relief of his parents: “I can still hear them breathing a sigh of relief.” […]
Political influence is not always conspicuous: According to the trade magazine “Politik & Kommunikation” (“politics and communication”), Pierre Gröning is one of the most influential Germans in Brussels. The 41-year-old is Managing Director of the Brussels European Office of the German Chemical Industry Association (VCI) and in this role represents the interests of around 1,900 […]
For eight years, as state secretary and minister, Andreas Scheuer was a member of several of Angela Merkel’s governments. With the change of government in 2021, the CSU MP’s time at the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure ended, and he started a career change. “Where are the projects, where can you get […]
A look at Chai Jing’s past achievements gives an idea of how fundamentally China’s news world has changed in recent years. Looking back, many consider the 2000s the golden era of Chinese journalism. At the time, Chai Jing was the host of the investigative TV show “Xīnwén diàochá” (新闻调查) and a series of other formats […]
Michael Mann has spent most of his career as an unlikely public figure, famous both for his research as a climate scientist and for his willingness to confront science deniers.More than one million US dollars in damagesMann, 58, won a lawsuit in February against two right-wing writers who claimed in a pair of blog posts […]
Kerstin Maria Rippel could obviously hardly wait for her job. Months before she became the new Managing Director of the German Steel Federation, she got in her car and drove to steel production sites all over Germany. “You can read a lot, talk a lot, but I wanted to experience, see and smell the industry,” […]
Wiesloch in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg is a small town with a population of just 30,000, but is home to two world-class companies: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, and SAP are headquartered nearby. This is where Juergen Kretz grew up – with one brother, his father an architect and his mother a housewife. After the tenth grade, […]
She can still remember the moment when her interest in China was first piqued, says Anja Ketels. It was when she was at primary school. The summer break was over, and her teacher asked the children what they had been up to. One of her classmates told her he had traveled to China with his […]
He already seemed to be retired. But now French President Emmanuel Macron has entrusted Jean-Marie Bockel with a delicate mission as his “personal representative”: He is to explain to those countries in Africa that have received French military bases – Senegal, Ivory Coast, Gabon and Chad – “the reasons and modalities of the forthcoming adjustments” […]