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Euralarm starts Task Group Environment & Sustainability

Euralarm starts Task Group Environment & Sustainability

The Horizontal Compliance Committee of Euralarm has started a new Task Group focusing on environmental and sustainability issues. The kick-off meeting of the new Task Group took place on August 23rd. Task Group Environment & Sustainability Earlier this year the...

Acceptance problem burdens new debit cards

Acceptance problem burdens new debit cards

The new Visa and Mastercard debit cards have an acceptance problem. According to the Federation of German Consumer Organisations (vzbv) (https://vzbv.de), 1,745 problem reports have been received from debit card holders following a consumer appeal. Banks have recently...

VDMA up in arms against industrial electricity prices

VDMA up in arms against industrial electricity prices

President Karl Haeusgen sees an “incalculable permanent subsidy with a watering can”. The German Engineering Federation (https://vdma.org) (VDMA) sees the plans of Green Vice-Chancellor and Economics Minister Robert Habeck as an “incalculable permanent subsidy with a...

NRW Security Day 2023: German economy at the turn of the times

NRW Security Day 2023: German economy at the turn of the times

At the NRW Security Day of the Alliance for Security in Business West (ASW West), experts from business, science and the public sector once again professed their commitment to economic protection. Among other things, the focus was on the new challenges in the context...

Euralarm welcomes ExxFire as new member

Euralarm welcomes ExxFire as new member

Following a decision of its Board, Euralarm has welcomed ExxFire as new member. The company will join the Extinguishing Section of Euralarm which activities cover automatic extinguishing systems using gas, water, foam, powder and aerosols, oxygen reduction systems,...

Federal government declares its support for cash

Federal government declares its support for cash

On 30 June 2023, the federal government declared its support for cash in response to a major question from an opposition party. In its answer to a major question on the digital euro, the Federal Government made it clear that a possible digital euro should only...

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