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Hypovereinsbank is changing its management personnel responsibilities. Georgiana Lazar-O’Callaghan is leaving the Unicredit Group after around 20 years. According to company information, she would like to pursue new professional challenges outside the bank. Your successor has already been chosen: Lars Jungemann will take over as head of the People & Culture department at Hypovereinsbank (HVB) on September 1st. Lars Jungemann is the new head of human resources at Hypovereinsbank. (Photo Hypovereinsbank) Who is Lars Jungemann? – the new People & Culture boss of Hypovereinsbank? Jungemann is a native of the bank. He has been working for HVB since 2004 and…
Employees should be able to potentially get to know new employers while their existing employment relationship continues. At least that is what the federal government would like to promote with the so-called job-to-job testing, officially called “measures to test employment prospects”. The measure was roughly outlined in the federal government’s draft law on the “modernization and digitalization of employment promotion”. “If companies have to cut jobs, it is important that skilled workers move quickly and easily to industries in which they are needed,” explained Bärbel Bas (SPD), Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs. The aim is for employees and…
The businessman Julio Martínez Martínez has ratified this Tuesday before Judge José Luis Calama, instructor of the Plus Ultra case in the National Court, the letter that he sent to the magistrate on Monday to point out José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero as the person who “marked the steps to follow” in the efforts that led to the rescue of 53 million euros that the airline received from the Government of Pedro Sánchez after the coronavirus pandemic. Several sources present at the interrogation point out that the accused, who has testified for nearly three hours after giving a twist to his…
The businessman Julio Martínez Martínez, friend of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and one of the main investigators in the Plus Ultra case, testified this Tuesday before the judge after implicating the former president in the aid that the Government granted to the airline in 2021, and confirming the collection of 1% of it. Considered by investigators as the “main lieutenant and visible figure” of the plot, Martínez appears at the National Court with the commitment to “collaborate and contribute to the clarification of the facts,” according to the document he presented less than 24 hours before in court.Continue reading
Comment: Highest priority for further training Shortly before his departure from office as President of the Federal Institute for Vocational Training (BIBB), I was able to interview Professor Friedrich Hubert Esser in detail about his ideas regarding vocational training (see page 50). I found his suggestion to move away from the strict separation of training and further education particularly remarkable. Instead, there should be an “integrated career concept” with the opportunity to gain further qualifications – analogous to the academic model – up to the equivalent of a doctorate. The idea is important in two respects: On the one hand,…
The joint World Cup is barely over when Donald Trump attacks his Canadian neighbor: the US President wants to impose a 50 percent tariff on a wide range of goods. The background is also the huge forest fires in North America.
The fire declared this Monday in the municipality of Brieva (Segovia) has forced the evacuation of eight population centers in the area and maintains level 2 of the Potential Severity Index activated due to the threat it poses to nearby towns. Around midnight, sources from the firefighting operation reported that the fire “is completely out of control and is heading towards Turégano with force.” The same sources estimate an impact of around 3,000 hectares.Continue reading
The Court of Auditors has asked the parties for their allegations in the case of the alleged diversion of funds for the illegal referendum of October 1, 2017 and the foreign action of the processafter the endorsement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) of the amnesty law last week. As reported this Monday, the supervisory body has agreed to resume the processing of the procedure, which had been suspended since it raised a preliminary ruling before the CJEU considering that the alleged diversion of funds for the Catalan independence process affects the community’s financial interests. It…
During the Thirty Years’ War, entire families moved from one battle to the next. Some as soldiers, others in an entourage. As a “mobile city” it ensured that the fighting could continue – with catastrophic consequences for the civilian population.
Debevoise & Plimpton July 18, 2026 Debevoise & Plimpton LLP 801 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20004 +1 202 383 8000 Via Email/ Under Seal The Honorable Arun Subramanian United States District Court Southern District of New York Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse 500 Pearl Street New York, NY 10007 Re: In re Grand Jury Subpoenas Dated July 10, 2026, No. 26 Misc. 352 (AS) Dear Judge Subramanian: We submit this letter-motion on behalf of our clients, The New York Times Company (“The Times”), Julian E. Barnes, Eric Lipton, and…