Newsroom – Category: Humanities

The TTIP Agreement is highly controversial in the public opinion in Europe and especially in Germany. First and foremost the opponents criticize the intended arbitration process for investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). By the supporters it is considered as a general practice. more

An opinion article from Jürgen Basedow more

Migration isn’t a new phenomenon, but new insights suggest that modern-day Europeans actually have at least three ancestral populations. This finding was published by Johannes Krause and prominently featured on the cover of Nature. The paleogeneticist himself is currently travellingl through time as a Founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena. For him, looking back millennia into the past is no problem. more

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The profound influx of refugees has plunged the EU asylum system into a crisis. In this interview, Ulrich Becker, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy talks about " the results of a new study on the social protection rights of refugees in Europe. more

The financial crisis reached its apogee in the autumn of 2008: the market for mortgage-backed securities from US mortgage loans imploded. Investors who had made what they thought were safe investments in securities, suddenly found themselves facing massive losses. The writedowns required and the payments due from credit insurance policies brought the financial system to the brink of collapse in a very short space of time. more

On the political economics of the European Central Bank's bond-buying programme. more

Over the last 100 years, marked changes have occurred in Germany’s regional life expectancy patterns. Research projects at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research look into the determinants of new mortality trends. more

Research report 2015 -  MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law more

Interview with Jürgen Renn and Matthias Schemmel from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science about a phenomenon which is both familiar and mysterious more