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"The act represents an important and ambitious contribution by Germany to further human rights and environmental protection towards reaching sustainable development goals. Large companies are subject to due diligence duties in their global supply chains to avoid violations of human rights and environmental violations. Considerable governmental competencies support the effective implementation of the act. BAFA audits company reports, investigates violations and is authorized to impose administrative fines which include exclusion from public procurement."

"The primary research question was whether the new investment boom in the Hungarian manufacturing sector, boosted by the government's Covid-19 crisis management, could increase the room for manoeuvre that workers and trade unions have. The Covid-19 crisis management by the Hungarian government has favoured companies over workers, and social dialogue has become even more limited. Trade unions needed to shape short-term mitigation, medium-term adaptation and long-term transformation measures simultaneously."

"Digitalisation means a fundamental transformation for the economy: products, processes and business models are changing, sometimes radically. Many things are becoming more efficient and completely new products and business models are being created. It is precisely these new digital business models that have seen global success in recent years. For example, the invention of platform business models has revolutionised entire industries - like retail - or given rise to new ones such as social networks, app economy, online advertising, or cloud computing. The new business models are so revolutionarily successful that today's global economy is clearly dominated by the leading companies in this field. Despite all the known downsides of their business models, these companies are responsible for an ever greater share of the value creation.."