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In the SPIEGEL talk, Richard David Precht, CDU politician Roderich Kiesewetter and Iran expert Azadeh Zamirirad discuss the future of the Iranian people, the conflagration in the Middle East and Friedrich Merz’s solidarity with Donald Trump.
The term performance is politically charged, socially controversial and often not very precisely defined in everyday company life. Despite this – or precisely because of this – the management consultancy Hays and the Institute for Employment and Employability (IBE) have made it the focus of their HR report this year. The central finding of the study “Promoting performance, not just demanding it”, for which 907 managers, HR managers and employees from Germany, Austria and Switzerland were surveyed: When it comes to performance culture, there is a wide gap between expectations and reality. Demanding performance without encouraging it is not possible…
Question: AI will take on more and more operational tasks in the future. How can I develop into a strategic role as an HR manager? For many HR managers, the development step is to move away from day-to-day operational business to a role in which they act as a sparring partner for management. In 2026, this transition will become even more important: companies will expect more advice, while at the same time more and more operational tasks will be automated by AI. But in everyday life there is often little space to address strategic issues. Those who make the leap…
It was 23 years ago, in February 2003, when that phenomenon that has been called “polarization” had not yet worsened and that has almost sent the great consensuses to the history books. The CIS asked almost 2,500 citizens about the military intervention in Iraq that the George W. Bush Administration was preparing and which was supported by the Government of José María Aznar (PP). And the result was one of those transversal agreements that are so obsolete today. More than nine out of ten rejected war. Furthermore, that data did not remain only on paper. They also took to the…
The US Democrats in the Senate are failing in their plan to restrict Donald Trump’s war powers. The Hezbollah boss is combative. And: German evacuation flight started from Muscat to Frankfurt. The live analysis.
Catalonia will have a large joint warehouse that will provide storage service to all public museums, a new and in-demand project that for now is called Joint National Reserves, as announced by the Minister of Culture, Sònia Hernández, in the presentation of the draft budget for her department this Wednesday in Parliament. The accounts reach 1.7% of the Generalitat’s total resources for 2026, a figure closer to the objective of 2% with respect to the 2023 budgets, which represented 1.5%. “We are committed to reaching 2% in this legislature and setting it for the following years,” the head of Culture…
Update from March 4, 2026: It remains unclear whether Volkswagen employees will receive a special bonus this year. Instead of deciding on a bonus, the VW board commissioned an external legal report, according to media reports. According to the report, no special payment may be set before an upcoming works council election. And exactly such an election is planned for next week at VW. According to information from Spiegel, works council leader Daniela Cavallo described the procedure as a “delaying tactic”. She doesn’t understand why the proximity to the works council election is suddenly a problem. After all, in the…
A group of 22 Spaniards have left Iran by land and are now safe after having crossed the Azerbaijan border, from where they will travel by plane to Madrid via Baku (Azerbaijan) and Istanbul (Turkey), as announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares. The head of Spanish diplomacy has assured that they will expectedly arrive in the Spanish capital tomorrow, Thursday. The operation has been especially complicated since the group has had to travel more than 500 kilometers, about eight hours of travel by road, through a militarized country that has been subjected to continuous bombing by…
The Federal Minister of Defense emphasizes that Germany is not a party to the conflict. At least 80 dead in US attack on Iranian military ship. And: NATO assumes Iranian shelling of member country Türkiye. The live analysis in the news blog.
This Monday there was white smoke in Puerta del Sol. The rectors of the public universities and the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, finally signed the new financing model developed by the regional government, which provides for 14,790.7 million euros between 2026 and 2031, of which the regional Executive will finance 83%. Both parties described the multi-year plan as “historic.” However, while the academic authorities sealed the institutional truce, peace did not reach the campuses. “Economic asphyxiation is consolidated in six years,” warn the six Platforms of the Public Universities of Madrid. They consider that the…