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“The step of time is threefold / The future comes hesitantly”: Chancellor Friedrich Merz left Schiller verses in the guest book of the Forbidden City in Beijing. The poem only partially fits with the further course of the trip to China.
– Advertisement -Bottom-up instead of strategy: Artificial intelligence is spreading organically in German medium-sized companies. The result: Efficiency gains seep into individual relief instead of systematically flowing into strategic growth. Based on case studies, Caroline Sophie Peitsmeier and Professor Heike Schinnenburg from Osnabrück University show how HR and managers pave the way for individual experiments to become measurable corporate success. Executive Summary AI transformation in medium-sized companies: The strategic role of HR The challenge: AI has arrived in medium-sized businesses and is spreading predominantly bottom-up. Employees use AI pragmatically in their everyday work, while strategic control, transparency about efficiency gains…
Spain and Gibraltar will be linked by a dense network of political, legal, commercial, economic, institutional and social ties when the treaty between the European Union and the United Kingdom that regulates the relations of the British colony with the EU comes into force after the Brexit. The treaty, of 336 articles and 46 annexes in English, to which EL PAÍS has had access, provides for the demolition of the Fence that has separated the British colony from its Spanish surroundings for more than a century and creates an area of free movement through the so-called Schengen area (25 EU…
The first applications for the German Human Resources Prize (DPP) 2026 are already in the online inbox – before the official starting signal for this year’s application cycle has even been given. But today the time has come: The application period starts and runs until June 21, 2026. The renowned award, which we as the HR magazine Human Resources Management are presenting for the 35th time this year, is apparently already marked red in the calendar of many HR professionals. You will find out whether your project has won in November 2026. The best HR concepts will then be honored…
The Interior Brigade warned on March 18, 1981 that the then director of Change 16 and press chief of the Ministry of the Interior (who are not identified) were preparing a book about 23-F where they planned to “reveal various facets that had not been disclosed until now.” Specifically, he mentioned “the evaluation made of the planned assault by GEOS (Special Operations Group) agents on the Congress Palace.” “The operation was estimated to result in between 80 and 110 deaths,” the text states. As he explains, “one of the aspects that stopped it was the fact that” a person, whose…
The German Film Academy has expressed shock at possible political influence in the dispute over Berlinale director Tricia Tuttle. Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer had previously called an emergency meeting.
A new contemporary British novel exploring wealth, secrecy and personal reckoning has been published by Aberdeen-born author Richard Hood. Filthy Rich is the author’s debut work set in Shoreham-by-Sea and centres on financier Oliver Wright, whose high-pressure London career is abruptly interrupted by a heart attack. Forced to leave behind the world of corporate deals and excess, Wright retreats to the Sussex coast in an attempt to recover and reassess his life. “This book draws on my observations of ambition, risk and the human instinct to test boundaries. After facing serious health challenges, the idea of reinvention became deeply personal.…
Agents from the Homicide group of the Madrid Police Headquarters have arrested in Germany the alleged murderer of the Ukrainian lawyer Andrei Portonov, 52, shot at point-blank range at the exit of his daughters’ school in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) on May 21, 2025. Currently, the agents are carrying out searches in the city of Heinsberg, on the border with Holland, where the alleged hitman has been located. Agents from Homicide Group Five of the Madrid Police Headquarters have traveled to the German city where the arrest took place, with the collaboration of the Special Operations Group of the German…
Andrew Lownie wrote the book on the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor affair. In the interview he explains how the Queen failed and how a silence cartel protected the ex-prince for a long time. And he says when things get dangerous for Charles.
When Miriam Limbach looks out of her office window, she sees the office towers of numerous well-known international companies. The global HR Shared Service Center (SSC) of the pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayer, which Limbach manages, is located in a large business park. However, Limbach’s office is not at the company’s German headquarters on the Rhine, but in the Costa Rican capital of San José.In recent years, Costa Rica has developed into one of the most attractive locations for covering business services for Spanish and English-speaking countries – or directly for the entire world. “Good infrastructure, tax advantages and well-trained…