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- 14 years of price fixing, a €2.93 billion fine, one paid nothing.
In 2016 the European Commission fined truck makers €2.93 billion: MAN, Daimler, Iveco, Volvo/Renault and DAF had …
- 48 hours, 11 hours, 4 weeks: the floor of EU working time.
EU Working Time Directive 2003/88 sets minimums for every member state: at most 48 hours a week including overtime …
- A 3,700-year-old law code carved in stone.
Around 1750 BC, the Babylonian king Hammurabi had roughly 282 legal rules carved into a basalt stele 2.25 metres tall …
- A share is not a betting slip, it is a slice of a company.
A share certifies a stake in a public company's capital: a vote at the annual meeting, a claim on the declared dividend …
- How a verdict is reached and when it becomes final.
A court of first instance hears witnesses, weighs evidence and rules. The losing side can usually appeal: a higher …
- How the money of a bankrupt company gets divided.
First, assets that never belonged to the firm are separated out. Then secured creditors take from their collateral. …
- Nobody has to take more than 50 coins at once.
Euro coins are legal tender, but Article 11 of Regulation 974/98 sets a limit: apart from the issuing authority, nobody …
- Nobody sues over 40 euros – forty thousand people might.
The EU Representative Actions Directive 2020/1828 lets qualified entities, usually consumer bodies, sue on behalf of …
- Since 2022 you can look up who runs a German company for free.
Since 1 August 2022, records from the German commercial, cooperative, partnership and association registers can be …
- The biggest merchant fleets belong to countries that barely build ships.
A ship falls under the laws of the country whose flag it flies, whoever owns it. Panama, Liberia and the Marshall …
- The witch hunts were not a medieval phenomenon.
Their fiercest phase ran from 1560 to 1630 – the middle of the Renaissance and early modern era, alongside printing and …
- Those three letters tell you whose money is at risk.
A German GmbH needs 25,000 euros of share capital, of which at least 12,500 must be paid in at registration. In return …
- Why "suspect" does not mean "perpetrator".
Article 11 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: everyone is presumed innocent until proved guilty …
- Why nobody may make, enforce and judge laws at once.
Montesquieu described three powers in 1748: the legislature (parliament) passes laws, the executive (government …
- You sign contracts every day without signing anything.
A contract forms through offer and acceptance: the baker offers the roll, you take it and pay, done. Written form is …