Driving a wedge

Governments in rich countries are pushing up the cost of hiring despite possible alternatives for raising revenue not being in short supply. In December 2025 Rainer Kirchdörfer, chairman of Germany’s Foundation for Family Businesses, published the Stiftung’s annual monitor, a survey of 1,700 family-owned firms run by the Ifo Institute. More than 80 per cent […] Driving a wedge was originally published on Emerging Europe.