Lawyers

• Markel Government Approves €1.2 Billion Subsidy To Boost Up Electric Car Sales

  German government has approved €1.2 billion subsidy in the sale electric cars on Tuesday. The approval appears with signing an agreement by the senior government officials with the CEOs of electric car producing companies. Chancellor Angela Markel has chaired the meeting and the agreement has been reached on condition of equally sharing the required subsidy fund by the two parties.

• German Finance Minister proposes plan to combat tax havens

  A German Finance Minister have initiated a plan to battle tax havens following the release of Panama Papers.

• Germany concerned about European Central Bank's involvement on 'helicopter money'

  Germany has been showing their concern on the issue of the helicopter money being carried out by the European Central Bank. Germany, however, denied reports that it will take legal actions against ECB.

• Refugee haven Sweden imposes temporary border controls in EU migration crisis

  Sweden will impose temporary border controls from Thursday in response to a record influx of refugees, a turnaround for a country known for its open-door policies that also threw down the gauntlet to other EU nations hit by a migration crisis.

• Germany's capacity to take in refugees is limited, Schaeuble says

  Germany needs to send a message to the world that it's reaching the limit of its capacity to help Europe's flood of migrants, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Sunday, as he advocated restricting family reunions for Syrian refugees.

• Germany needs to limit refugee influx, close borders: Merkel allies

  Germany needs to limit the number of refugees it takes in or even close its borders, conservative allies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the weekend, as the country deals with record inflows of people fleeing from war and poverty.

• Germany condemns Greek cartoon depicting Schaeuble as Nazi

  Germany condemned on Friday a cartoon published in a Greek leftist newspaper close to the new ruling party in Athens that depicts Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in a Nazi uniform making comments that invoke the Holocaust.

• Twenty years on, Schaeuble pleads again for core Europe

  German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble renewed a call for a core group of European Union countries to move ahead faster with economic and political integration, 20 years after his ground-breaking proposal fell on deaf ears in key partner France.