Germany

• [New] In order to achieve the goals defined by 2050, the EU and the German government have drawn up a framework for action and are making long-term investments in research, development and the rapid implementation of innovative hydrogen technologies.
• [New] The United States, Canada, China, Germany, The United Kingdom, Japan, France, and a few others are lucrative markets for serological transplant diagnostics, and are expected to dominate throughout the forecast period.
• [New] The German government last week removed Germany's favorite holiday island from the list of risk areas and lifted the travel warning due to a sharp drop in the number of infections.
• [New] The European economy is expected to grow 4.3% in 2021 according to economic consensus, with a slower delivery of vaccines than in the United States, in particular in Germany.
• [New] The European consortium, backed by the Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, is developing 70 packages of work which will create significant numbers of high-quality, long-term jobs with more than 100 Finnish companies.
• [New] The more than 700 kilometers (435 miles) of range Mercedes expects the EQS to achieve in lab testing is another indication Germany's carmakers will have something to say about Tesla Inc.'s early domination of the EV space.
• [New] The ID.4 competes in the world's largest market segment-compact SUVs - and is currently produced in Germany and China; in the future, it will also be assembled in the United States.
• [New] Up until now, only France's border area of Moselle had been classified by Germany as an area of particularly high risk, because of the rapid spread of the South African virus variant there.
• [New] Austria's hard-hit Tyrol region, which borders Germany, is also no longer considered a virus variant region and is now classified as a lower-level risk area, RKI added.
• [New] Anyone travelling from France will have to be able to produce a negative test that is less than 48 hours old upon entry, before beginning a 10-day quarantine period in Germany.
• [New] The more than 435 miles of range Mercedes expects the EQS to achieve in lab testing is another indication Germany's automakers will have something to say about Tesla's early domination of the EV space.
• [New] From an economic standpoint, countries such as the United States, China and Germany implemented very successful policies that resulted in less-than-expected recessions.
• [New] In a separate initiative, BMW plans to test the first 50 i3 cars capable of backfeeding energy to the grid in Germany starting in June.
• [New] A total of 241 fuel assemblies manufactured in Framatome's plants in Germany and France will be transferred from storage and loaded into the reactor vessel to constitute the first core.
• [New] Interim storage of spent fuel dual purpose casks in Germany is licensed for 40 years; the interim storage duration will have to be extended since operation licences of the storage facilities will expire between 2034 and 2047, and the disposal repository will not be available before 2050.
• [New] As one of the largest residential property companies in Germany, Deutsche Wohnen will intensify its efforts in the future to build new homes, particularly in attractive and dynamic metropolitan regions.
• [New] Germany will fund vaccines for Holocaust survivors, and Brazil becomes the second country to pass 300,000 covid deaths, after the U.S.
• [New] There will be a role for gas in making 'blue hydrogen' with carbon capture but it will not last much beyond the early 2030s and it will not be in Germany.
• France, including all French overseas departments, is now considered at particularly high risk of infection due to a particularly high number of cases, Germany's Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases said.
• In addition to key target markets such as the US and UK, South Africa has been flagged as a risk by a number of other European countries including Belgium, France, Germany, and Switzerland.

Last updated: 06 April 2021