Month: March 2025

Last November, Germany’s “traffic light” coalition collapsed and snap elections were called for February. I dutifully registered to vote as a German living abroad. Following the proper procedure, I contacted the city council of the last place I lived before emigrating twenty-one years ago.

The New Zealand Initiative strongly recommends retaining the income tax exemption for bodies promoting scientific or industrial research (Section CW 49) as it applies to independent public policy think tanks. The exemption is not a historical anachronism but remains vital to New Zealand’s policy development ecosystem.