Story of one Berlin travel agent illustrates how the Kurzarbeit scheme has kept businesses afloat

Without Germany’s furlough scheme, called Kurzarbeit (“short work”), Wulf Scheunert’s travel agency BITS would by now be “in freefall”, as he puts it.

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