Latest Berlin News
RSS-
Germany home to one million millionaires
Germany has the third highest population of millionaires of any country in the world, and according to a study released on Wednesday, their piles of gold are growing faster than the world ...
-
Manufacturers moving to New Berlin Menomonee Falls
A Menomonee Falls manufacturer is moving to Westridge Business Park, in New Berlin, while another area manufacturer to moving to Menomonee Falls from Mequon. Milwaukee Broach Co. has leased approximately 28,000 square feet at 5660 S. Westridge Court, in a lease brokered by Kevin Barry and Kenneth Braden, of Cassidy Turley Barry, and Barry Chavin, of NAI MLG Commercial. Milwaukee Broach, which ...
-
President Obama to speak at Berlin landmark
After attending the G-8 summit in Ireland, the president is spending two days in Germany where he'll speak at the Brandenburg Gate, 50 years after John F. Kennedy visited the landmark that divided Berlin. NBC's Chuck Todd ...
More Berlin News
RSS-
German banks signal support for euro deposit guarantee scheme
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German banking association BDB signalled it may drop its opposition to a pan-European deposit guarantee scheme, a radical step under which German lenders would absorb some of the losses of failed banks in other European states.Until now, Germany's banks have been opposed to any plans for funding bank rescues from outside of Europe's largest economy, slowing ...
-
Obama says US not spying on German French US emails
BERLIN (AFP) - President Barack Obama said Wednesday that US spies were not "rifling" through emails of Germans, French or American citizens, in a defence of National Security Agency surveillance programmes.Obama defended the sweeps of global phone and Internet data during a visit to Germany, where they have caused concern, and said a balance must be struck between ensuring the ...
-
New in German cinemas Monsters University
New in theaters this week, Monsters University, a joyful computer-animated extravaganza in colorful 3D. The prequel to ...
-
Video Why Berlins new airport is having trouble getting off the ground
Berlin's new international airport should have been open for a year, but may not start operating until 2017. The cost has doubled to 4.3 billion euros, mostly due to the delays. Joanna Partridge reports from Berlin on what's gone wrong, and looks at other large German infrastructure project facing ...
-
Livestream Watch President Obamas Speech in Berlin
SPIEGEL ONLINE International is streaming the live video of President Barack Obama's historic speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m. CET. Click here to view the ...
-
Opinion Why U.S. now needs Germany more than ever
>Sudha David-Wilp is a senior program officer at the German Marshall Fund of the United States' Berlin office. She previously oversaw the Congressional Study Group on Germany, a program for lawmakers on Capitol Hill and in the Bundestag, in Washington DC. Follow her on Twitter. Berlin (CNN) -- US President John ...
-
Vodafone raises bid for German cable TV company
Britain's Vodafone Group has reportedly raised its preliminary offer to buy Germany's largest cable operator, Kabel Deutschland, a day after US media group Liberty Global made a rival bid. Bloomberg reports that Vodafone told Kabel Deutschland this week that it would be willing to pay €85 a share, compared with its initial offer of €80-82 for the German company. Vodafone is ...
-
Obama first US president to speak in former East Berlin
US President Barack Obama has traveled to Berlin, Germany for his first official visit since he became president in 2009. His speech that is expected later today will also mark the first time a US president will speak from the east side of the former Wall. As Obama's deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes stated: "This is a place where U.S. presidents have gone to talk about the ...
-
Germanys Telepool Buys VOD Group Videobuster.de
German VOD Platform Maxdome Takes 'Skyfall' The deal, financial details of which were not disclosed, gives Munich-based Telepool full control of Netleih. Telepool managing ...
-
Obama and Berlin Faded echoes meet new realities
BERLIN This city may be the only place in the world where President Obama's rhetoric is no match and can be no match for the presidents who came before him. Mr. Obama will speak Wednesday at the Brandenburg Gate just days before the 50th Anniversary of John F. Kennedy's speech of Cold War solidarity with all of West Germany, menaced for years by communist East Germany and nursed ...
-
German cartel court takes on Porsche lawsuit source
Reuters © A logo is seen on a Porsche 911 Carrera 4S displayed ahead of the annual news conference at the Porsche headquarters in Stuttgart March 15, 2013. REUTERS/Lisi ...
-
Update-MoodysGerman RMBS 90+ day delinquencies rose in April 2013
Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:40am EDT German residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) For the full text of this story please click the following ...
-
Etihad-backed Air Berlin faces pilot strike
Air Berlin, the German carrier in which Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways owns a 29 percent stake, faces industrial action after trade unions representing its pilots announced plans to go on strike after a breakdown in talks with ...
-
German Stocks Drop Before Fed Decision Daimler Declines
German stocks fell, after three days of gains, as investors awaited the outcome of a Federal Reserve meeting for signs of the central bank's plan for stimulus. Daimler AG lost 1 percent as a gauge of carmakers was the second-worst performer of the 19 industry groups in the Stoxx Europe 600 Index. Deutsche Bank AG lost 0.9 ...
-
Obama in Berlin Shows Merkel’s Chancellorship Forged in Crisis
Chancellor Angela Merkel to take the heat out of the crisis-wracked euro area. With surging government borrowing costs in Italy and Spain roiling the global economy less than five months before U.S. presidential elections, Obama and Merkel's European peers at the G-20 summit in Mexico in June 2012 jointly urged her to show markets that the euro area stood behind its biggest ...
-
Obama returns to Berlin
Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can't escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal ...
-
Refugees hoping for better life in Germany find themselves in limbo
refugees than any other rich country. But that does not mean it is easy for the hundreds of thousands of refugees stuck in limbo.One year and eight months since Chima Oxumbor arrived at Dsseldorf's police station to appeal for asylum, he has a EUR1-an-hour (85p-an-hour) job cleaning the toilets and floors at the camp where he shares a room with four or five other people. His life in Germany ...
-
Six famous American quotes about Germany
President Barack Obama follows John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan in his Berlin speech on Wednesday. Can he match being a Berliner or calling for Gorbachev to tear down that wall? The Local List has six other famous US quotes about ...
-
All eyes on Obama for Berlin speech
Berlin - United States President Barack Obama will say on Wednesday that he will pursue a new reduction in deployed nuclear weapons by up to a third below the level achieved in the ';New START'; treaty with Russia, a senior administration official ...
-
Germanys ruling coalition on course for re-election poll
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2nd R) attends a parliamentary faction meeting of the coalition of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) to discuss a Cyprus bailout plan in Berlin, March 22, ...
-
Obama honors JFKs magic Berlin moment
Germans are set to commemorate the 50 anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's celebrated "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. The historic address ended with Kennedy expressing his solidarity with the citizens of Berlin, electrifying an immense crowd. NBC News' Andy Eckardt ...
-
Obama to Promote Nuclear-Free World in Berlin Speech
U.S. President Barack Obama is set to lay out his vision for advancing toward a world free of nuclear weapons during a speech Wednesday at the historic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. A senior administration official says Mr. Obama will propose the United States and Russia cut their number of strategic nuclear warheads by up to one third below the level agreed to in a 2009 treaty. That pact, ...
Germany Digest
-
Germany has leading role to play in climate change talks
Germany and Mexico co-hosted a global summit on climate change and some significant headway was made, but as the German Environment Minister pointed out, the most important issues remain unresolved. Germany is the regional power in Europe and just as it has played a leading role in dealing with the EU’s financial crisis, it will play a leading role in resolving climate change issues as well.
Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen, commenting on the outcome of the 40-nation summit, told Germany news media that it had been “a contribution to making success possible again”, adding that the importance of the summit’s outcomes were significant because it laid the groundwork or foundation for further agreements on the most important issues. Read more
News from around our Network
