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On 29 April 2021, the German Federal Constitutional Court published its groundbreaking ruling following several constitutional complaints against provisions of the German Federal Climate Change Act of 2019.

In July 2026, the German Federal Government adopted the National Action Plan to Promote Collective Bargaining (Action Plan) and submitted it to the Bundestag in September 2026.

July, besides being unseasonably warm across Europe has also been busy so please excuse the somewhat longer round-up.

The UK parliamentary elections on December 12, 2019 saw the Conservative Party winning a comfortable majority, increasing the likelihood for ratification, by the UK Parliament and the EU,...

The German federal government has announced a sweeping new initiative with the stated goal of making "Germany and Europe the worldwide leader in the field of artificial intelligence."

To mitigate the economic repercussions of the COVID-19 outbreak in the Member States, authorities are considering support measures ...

In the aftermath of the Brexit referendum in 2016, the Unitary Patent system came to a substantive halt in 2017 when Dr. Stjerna filed a constitutional complaint against the ratification of the...

The Federal Constitutional Court clarified that maximum age limits for occupational pension benefits do not violate the general principle of equality.

Half days of leave granted by the employer may be claimed again by the employee due to inadmissible fulfillment of the vacation entitlement.

The legislative process towards a new German Food and Feed Act (Lebensmittel- und Futtermittelgesetzbuch - <B>LFGB</B>) has entered into the next round: ignoring several objections by the Federal Council (Bundesrat), the German Parliament (Bundestag) approved the bill for the LFGB at the end of November 2004.

In Germany today, the Federal Constitutional Court has held that the statute by which the German Parliament sought to ratify the UPC Agreement is void.

This month marks the 25th anniversary of the reunification of Germany. Integrating two vastly different economies was a hugely risky venture.

The Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework (TCTF), altered in March 2023, allows EU countries to subsidize companies producing components...

According to Section 14(2) sentence 2 German Part-Time and Fixed-Term Employment Act, the limitation of the term of an employment contract not based on objective grounds ...

After Brexit has already been postponed several times, the next deadline will now expire on October 31, 2019. With the new Prime Minister at the helm, it is becoming more likely every day ...

The Background: In an effort to benefit from Brexit, Germany is looking at ways to attract financial institutions and reduce their fears of excessive employee termination protections in Germany.

In recent years there has been a substantial increase in patent lawsuits before the German Courts. Many of these have been instigated by plaintiffs from the US, the UK and other European countries, and it is not unusual for the defendant party to also be non-German.

In autumn 2021, individuals affiliated with Deutsche Umwelthilfe, Fridays for Future and Greenpeace filed claims at various German courts against automakers (BMW AG, Mercedes-Benz AG and Volkswagen AG) and...