#competitiveness
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Economy
Bureaucracy Is the Biggest Drag on German Competitiveness, Ifo Finds
Half of German firms name regulation as their top competitive problem—far ahead of energy and labour costs—with larger e...
Economy
Germany Needs Structural Reform, Not Just More Debt, Strategist Argues
Robert Halver warns that Germany’s old export model has lost its geopolitical tailwinds — and that debt without competit...
Companies
AI Has Arrived at Portugal's Firms, But True Transformation Remains Elusive
Only 11.5% of Portuguese companies use AI, far below the EU average, and most treat it as another digital tool rather th...
Energy
Angola's Oil Minister: Women Are Key to Future Competitiveness
Minister Diamantino Azevedo says developing female talent is not about quotas but about strengthening Angola's oil and g...
Economy
German Government Makes the Case for a Broad Reform Agenda
Berlin argues that an aging population, skills shortages and global competition leave no choice but to reform the econom...
Economy
Five Proposals to Stop the ‘Silent Erosion’ of German Industry
A leading German daily warns that politically self-inflicted investment weakness is eroding the country’s research-inten...