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The Volkswagen Act is a set of German (originally West German) federal laws enacted in 1960, regulating the privatization of Volkswagenwerk GmbH into the Volkswagen Group. [1] In order to maintain government control in the privately owned company, it stipulated that the votes in major shareholder meeting resolutions require 4/5th (80% ...
In contemporary Germany, the Grundgesetz (Basic Law) generally guarantees freedom of press, speech, and opinion. [ 1 ] Today, censorship is mainly exerted in the form of restriction of access to certain media (examples include motion pictures and video games) to older adolescents or adults, as well as perceived online fake news , hate speech ...
The Federal Republic of Germany guarantees freedom of speech, expression, and opinion to its citizens as per Article 5 of the constitution.Despite this, censorship of various materials has taken place since the Allied occupation after World War II and continues to take place in Germany in various forms due to a limiting provision in Article 5, Paragraph 2 of the constitution.
At the same time, the Norwegian Constitution guarantees the right to free speech, and there has been an ongoing public and judicial debate over where the right balance between the ban against hate speech and the right to free speech lies. Norwegian courts have been restrictive in the use of the hate speech law and only a few persons have been ...
Volkswagen announced sweeping changes to its German operations, including more than 35,000 future job cuts and capacity reductions in a last-gasp deal between Europe's top carmaker and unions on ...
As in Tennessee, however, Volkswagen has struggled to get its points across in Germany. Nearly 100,000 Volkswagen workers are reported to have joined strike action at the start of December as ...
German law provides for freedom of speech and press with several exceptions, including what The Guardian has called "some of the world's toughest laws around hate speech". [2] An example of content censored by law is the removal of web sites from Google search results that deny the holocaust, which is a felony under German law. According to the ...
Germany had committed €9.9 billion ($10.9 billion) to the project when it was announced in June last year. A representative for Intel didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.