“…"Following the Fontainebleau relaunch in 1984 and then the arrival of Jacques Delors, who was able to rely on a reinvigorated relationship between Germany and France, the process of European integration accelerated, with the Commission playing a leading role. …”

“…A key issue is overcoming the implicit neoliberal bias in the Maastricht Treaty of 1991, pursuing the then prevailing Zeitgeist, especially in Germany, and re-embracing Keynesian economic philosophy. …”

“…This "score card-approach" is illustrated for three countries: Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom. The report offers tools for assessment that may be developed further, and should offer an approach to using the OECD Family Database, acknowledging this unique data source for cross-country comparisons in the field of family policy."…”

“…Policymakers in some counties, notably Germany, France and the UK, have sought to refocus state pension systems towards generating better outcomes for people in the bottom half of the income distribution, probably with the insight that middle- to high-income individuals are possibly in a better position to accommodate the effect of state pension reforms by increasing their private saving. …”

“…In this far-reaching symposium on this aspect of comparative labour relations, 35 scholars examine case studies and evolving scenarios in a wide variety of countries, from leading economic powers such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany to post-socialist states such as Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria to the formidable global economic presences of Brazil, Russia, and India. …”

“…To its original selection of six representative jurisdictions – Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom – the Second Edition now adds Poland, thus including an Eastern European perspective to supplement those of continental Europe and the common law system of the UK. …”

“…As telework becomes more prominent so too has the need to disconnect in order to separate paid work and personal life, with France and Germany beginning to look at arrangements at the company level, and at existing and new legislation. …”

“…Zooming closer into the EU, there was a marked reshuffling of market shares of Member States in EU-wide VC trade from large Member States such as France, Italy and the United Kingdom towards a group of Central European (CE) economies – Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – which together form the Central European Manufacturing Core. …”

“…If real per capita gross domestic product is taken as an indicator for globalization-driven growth, then it is the advanced economies such as Japan, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Ireland and Germany that benefited the most from advancing globalization between 1990 and 2014. …”

“…The increase in migration from the NMS is accompanied by a substantial diversion of migration flows away from Austria and Germany towards Ireland and the UK in the case of migrants from the NMS-8, while Italy and Spain have been the main destination countries for Bulgarian and Romanian migrants. …”