Today is a big day for the German banking world, as new terms and conditions have come into effect for almost every bank in the country.  This has some particular implications for those who make transfers between accounts. Behind the new conditions...

This week the Monday Podcast continues its series from Lanzarote. During our recent visit we met up with Nick Ball, the author of the “Lanzarote Guidebook” – a free guide to the island that can be downloaded online and is also distributed by car-hire...

Humankapital is a term that is often used in Business Administration.  It refers to the value of employees in a company. There are different ways of using it and thus calculating that value.  One way means the amount that an employee costs, eg....

Many German tourists will have visited the island of Lanzarote this summer. During our own holiday we recorded a short series of podcasts with British ex-pats who live there. We met up with Mike Cliffe-Jones, at the Puerto del Carmen offices of his...

You’d think that the new Government in Germany would have more serious problems to work on than whether or not to keep Daylight Saving Time.  The economy, for example.  It appears not. A brief history: Summertime (Sommerzeit) it its current form...