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Berlin recognizes more doctors from abroad

May 10, 2026 • 06:20 PM

Doctors from abroad are increasingly working in Berlin - in the four years from 2018 to 2021, more than 1,300 licenses to practice were issued to doctors with foreign training. This means that a third of all approvals were for men and women trained abroad, even if some of them are now working in other federal states. This is according to a response by State Health Secretary Thomas Götz (Greens) to a question from FDP parliamentary group leader Sebastian Czaja, obtained in advance by the...

Global expansion: how companies plan to enter the international market

May 10, 2026 • 06:20 PM

In the last two years, people and enterprises worldwide have been subjected to COVID-19 restrictions, and home offices have become the new normal. However, these constraints are not deterring companies' desires to expand globally. According to a CFO survey, 45 percent of respondents already plan to develop their business into foreign markets. If you too plan to go global, you must understand that globalization is a complicated and dynamic process in which you seek integration in another...

Quarterly report paints a mixed picture of Amazon

May 10, 2026 • 06:20 PM

Amazon reported revenue growth of 9 percent to $137.4 billion for the final quarter of 2021, roughly in line with analysts' expectations. Net income nearly doubled to $14.3 billion, thanks to a special gain of $11.8 billion from the Rivian deal. Operating profit, meanwhile, nearly halved to $3.5 billion. Chief Executive Andy Jassy said in a statement that the company suffered from higher costs last quarter because of staff shortages and general inflation. Amid those challenges, Amazon now...

Europe and Africa can only achieve energy transition together

May 10, 2026 • 06:20 PM

This year, Europe and Germany in particular are moving from ambitious announcements to decisive action on climate protection. At last! For our continent, the climate turnaround is a Herculean task - and despite all the ambition and investments, it can only be accomplished if we cooperate closely with Africa right from the start. Any climate goal that Europe sets itself will literally go up in smoke if the countries of Africa and other developing countries continue to meet their growing energy...

Apple costs Facebook $10 billion

May 10, 2026 • 06:20 PM

The parent company of social network Facebook startled the stock market with a surprisingly cautious outlook when it presented its quarterly results. It talked about tougher competition and said new data rules from Apple would cost it $10 billion in revenue this year. The share price of the company, which was recently renamed Meta Platforms by Facebook, fell by more than 20 percent at times in after-hours trading. Shares in competitors also came under considerable pressure. Snap's share price...

Inflation in Turkey is getting out of control

May 10, 2026 • 06:20 PM

This week, Turkey attracted attention with positive figures from tourism and foreign trade. But inflation figures announced Thursday sharpen the focus again on the ongoing economic crisis: analysts expect consumer prices to rise 47 percent year-on-year in January - the highest level in 20 years. In December, the figure was 36 percent. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told his countrymen that they will have to live with high inflation "for some time to come." The central bank has doubled its...

Google's advertising business continues to grow rapidly

May 10, 2026 • 06:20 PM

Google continues to benefit massively from the boom in online advertising in the Corona pandemic. The Internet giant's umbrella company, Alphabet, posted a 32 percent jump in revenue and a profit of $20.6 billion (18.3 billion euros) in the past quarter. The mainstay of the business remains the ads surrounding Internet search queries. In the pandemic, more ad spending moved online and at the same time people are doing more things online. Google is benefiting from both trends. Ad revenue around...

Agreement for Airbus conversion

May 10, 2026 • 06:20 PM

An agreement was signed early Tuesday morning on how Airbus production in Germany is to be restructured. According to the agreement, the representatives of Airbus and the IG Metall trade union agreed on a package that will safeguard jobs and locations until 2030. On the contrary - the number of employees in Germany is even to be increased by 15 to 20 percent. This means that the strikes are off the table, after 10 months of negotiations on the future structure and around 21,000 employees had...

Slaughterhouses threatened with new Corona freeze

May 10, 2026 • 06:20 PM

Slaughterhouses in North Rhine-Westphalia are at a standstill due to a lack of personnel. According to the German Meat Industry Association, production at some plants has already been cut to 50 percent. "With the current explosive increase in the incidence of corona in the population, it is to be expected that the positive results of the mandatory tests in meat plants in North Rhine-Westphalia will also increase sharply in parallel," says Heike Harstick, the chief executive of the meat industry...

German ten-year interest rate slightly up

May 10, 2026 • 06:20 PM

For a long time, the German government booked profits on debt thanks to negative interest rates - investors had to pay on top when they lent it money. Now the government has to pay some money again, at least for ten-year federal bonds. But from the point of view of economists, the cracked "zero mark" has more of a symbolic value. For fear of soon interest rate hikes by major central banks, government bonds fly out of the depots. On Wednesday, the interest rate for ten-year federal bonds was...

Germany approves record arms exports

May 10, 2026 • 06:20 PM

Germany has approved more arms exports in 2021 than ever before. This is according to a preliminary balance sheet of the Ministry of Economics, which was published on Tuesday. According to the report, the value of armaments rose from 5.82 billion in 2020 to 9.35 billion euros last year. According to the report, the largest customer for German arms exports is Egypt by far. In 2021, arms worth 4.34 billion euros were approved for the country in northeast Africa alone. Of these, 95 percent were...

Significant increase in the number of part-time workers

May 10, 2026 • 06:20 PM

The number of people working short hours in Germany has risen sharply amid the new Corona wave. It increased to 879,000 people in December from 712,000 the previous month, the Munich-based Ifo Institute estimated Wednesday, based on its company surveys and figures from the Federal Labor Agency. That's now 2.6 percent of the workforce, up from 2.1 percent in November. "The growing Corona figures particularly magnified short-time work in the hospitality and retail sectors," Ifo researcher...

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