From the 15th to the 16th of march Professor Habisch participated in the 53rd colloquium of the Walter Raymund Stiftung of the BDA in the Kampinski Hotel in Berlin. Topic of this years colloquium was the transatlantic free trade agreement TTIP: Job and growth engine or shrinker of social standards.
Reiner Hoffmann, chairman of the „Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund“ and one of the main speakers of the day promoted at the panel discussion his proposel to conjoin in a deepend dialogue the liberalisation of the worl trade with Europe and the USA. The director of the catholic social-scientific central body, prelate prof. Peter Schallenberg, announced relating to the topic the conjoined initiative with american foundations.