Allianz, for example, which settled most of its policies under Germany's own sweeping post-war restitution programme, set up a team to examine 1.4m individual paper files on policies issued between 1920 and 1945 in order to try to trace any that remain unpaid.

ECONOMIST: Holocaust reparations

The European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages was set up to try and oversee policies on regional languages.

BBC: Minority language statement

That is why the U.S. General Services Administration recommends people set up a "social-media will, " review the privacy policies and terms and conditions of each website and stipulate in their traditional will that the "online executor" get a copy of the death certificate.

WSJ: What a Tangled Web We Leave

Thanks to its no-questions-asked policies and lax regulations, Liechtenstein is the perfect EU nation in which to set up shop.

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