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The European Union is a unique and exceptional organisation in many respects. Its financial system, whose rules and structure are very different from those of national budgetary law, has changed a great deal and is still changing. The most significant changes include: — The unification of budgetary instruments. Initially, each Community had its own budget or budgets (administrative and operating). These have now been replaced by a single budget, the general budget of the European Union.

Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach wie Fritz Wüst, Professor für Eisenhüttenkunde an der Technischen Hochschule Aachen (1901-1921), Akteurskonstellationen konstruierte, um die Machtverhältnisse zu Gunsten der Aachener Hochschule zu verschieben. Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit werden dazu als Ressource füreinander verstanden.

The following contribution examines the influence of mangas and animes on the social perception and cultural understanding of robots in Japan. Part of it is the narrow interaction between pop culture and Japanese robotics: Some examples shall serve to illustrate spill-over effects between popular robot stories and the recent development of robot technologies in Japan. The example of the famous Astro boy comics will be used to help investigate the ethical conflicts between humans and robots thematised in Japanese mangas.