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German opposition Greens commission study into pedophile tendencies within party in the past
BERLIN - Germany's second-largest opposition party says it is commissioning a study to investigate the influence of pedophiles in the group's founding years. The environmentalist Greens said Friday the study aims at finding out "to what extent groups or individuals who sought exemption from punishment for sexual acts of adults with children" were active within the party. ...
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Monaco Nieminen win ATP semis in Germany
Jarkko Nieminen posted wins Friday that put them in the finals of the Power Horse Cup tennis tournament in Germany. Monaco, the No. 3 seed, ended the run of qualifier Guido Pella with a 6-4, 7-6 (10-8) victory. Pella had beaten No. ...
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France and Germany team up for a New Deal on youth unemployment
Germany and France are to tackle mass youth unemployment gripping southern Europe with a ‘New Deal’ aimed at curbing the mounting anger that is threatening to tear the eurozone ...
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German Brewers Say Fracking Will Mess Up the Countrys Beer
A waitress carries beer mugs after the opening ceremony of Munich's 176th Oktoberfest in Munich September 19, 2009. (Reuters) Fracking opponents have come up with plenty of interesting arguments against the practice, but perhaps the most compelling yet comes just this week from Germany: Blast apart our soil, the German Brewers Federation told the federal government, and you ...
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Fitch Assigns Red Black Auto Lease Germany 1 S.A. Final Rating
Macao Banks' Rapid China Growth Alters Risk Profiles Macao banks could see their risk profiles weaken as their exposure to China continues to climb.Fitch Ratingsexpects credit growth to accelerate to 30% in 2013 from 26% in 2012, primarily led by China-related trade financing. Generally Chinese exposures are driven by parent referrals and associated risk is adequately mitigated with ...
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German Brewers Fear Fracking Could Damage Centuries-Old Industry
In a truly horrifying prospect for beer drinkers of all stripes, German producers are warning the controversial oil and gas extraction technique called hydraulic fracturing - known commonly as fracking - could ruin the nation's iconic brewing industry by contaminating water used in ...
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German Firms Flee to U.S. to Avoid Staggering “Green” Energy Costs
Chancellor Angela Merkel's "renewable energy revolution" is killing the German economy, but Obama and Greens keep pointing to Germany's debacle as the model we should ...
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Germany is indifferent to neo-Nazi violence
It's an intriguing premise: Are Germans ready to elect a Jewish politician chancellor? British journalist David Crossland has written a novel exploring themes of racism and neo-Nazi violence in Germany. The Local has ...
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German business confidence sees unexpected rise
German business confidence rebounded this month in an unexpectedly strong showing that sends a hopeful signal for more robust growth in Europe's biggest economy. The closely watched Ifo think tank's confidence index rose to 105.7 points for May from 104.4 last month. The improvement followed two consecutive declines and beat economists' expectations of a very slight increase to ...
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German Business Morale Improves For First Time In 3 Months
Sentiment among German companies strengthened in May for the first time since February due to an improvement in current conditions, indicating that ...
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German Cockroaches Sometimes Avoid Bait Because Of Included Sugars
German cockroaches , especially those that avoid the roach baits. Entomologists from North Carolina State University show the neural mechanism causing the aversion to glucose in a new study published in the ...
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German who absconded to Malta denied bail
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EU Approves Lufthansa-United-Air Canada Venture
United Airlines and Air Canada after the carriers agreed to give up landing and take-off slots at Frankfurt and New York.The European Commission, the EU's executive, said the airlines, which are key members of the Star Alliance, will also strike agreements with competitors on ticketing and improved access to connecting flights.The commission was concerned the revenue-sharing venture, would ...
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German and French business confidence rise—but the gulf between Germany and everyone else continues
Both German and French measures of business confidence rose on a monthly basis. Germany's Ifo survey of business confidence hit 105.7, topping a long-term average of 100. The French business climatemeasure rose to 92 from 88. These data are better than analysts expected. Although the euro zone--and nearly all individual euro zone countries--have long since slipped into recession, German ...
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A Berliner in 1963 – but did former US president John F Kennedy once admire Adolf Hitler
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Fracking threatens to destroy the German beer industry
A 500-year-old beer purity law called the "Reinheitsgebot" is apparently at stake. The "Reinheitsgebot" states that German brewers can only produce beer using malt, hops, yeast and water. The chemicals produced by fracking could, according to the Brauer-Bund beer association, pollute water in the underground wells used by some ...
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Germany just avoids recession but outlook brightens
27/09/2012 13:48 CET Germany only just avoided falling into recession in the first three months of this year. That was thanks to a rise in private consumption which compensated for declines in both exports and ...
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New book asks Could Germany have a Jewish chancellor
By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - A new novel about a neo-Nazi plot to assassinate Germany's first Jewish candidate for Chancellor has shed a timely light on the right-wing extremist violence that has plagued the country since 1990 and was swept under the carpet for years. Political thriller "The Jewish Candidate" by British journalist David Crossland has been published ...
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German Business Confidence Shows Improvement
Good day. And a Happy Friday to one and all! I know and fully understand that I've only been back in the office for 2 days, but it sure seems like it's been a very long week! So. plenty of you were not happy that I came back from MD Anderson Cancer Clinic in Houston and didn't tell you what all the tests, scans, and doctors had to say. So, I'll get to that in the Big Finish ...
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Default should be option for eurozone nations Bundesbank
PARIS (AFP) - The head of the German central Bundesbank Jens Weidmann said on Friday that eurozone countries should be able to default, a possibility which the EU has gone to great lengths to avoid during the current crisis."In this crisis we have paid great attention to avoid the risks of default" given concerns about contagion to other eurozone states, said Weidmann, an advocate of ...
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Germany must spread cost of energy shift fairly
BERLIN (AFP) - Germany must shield its consumers from paying too much of the cost of its ambitious switch from nuclear power and fossil fuels towards renewable energy, the International Energy Agency said on Friday.The IEA also said that Germany, with Europe's biggest economy, should make greater use of natural gas to smoothe the transition and reduce the use of coal so it can meet its ...
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Viktor Ullmanns opera written in Nazi concentration camp revived in Berlin
Viktor Ullmann wrote The Emperor from Atlantis while at the Theresienstadt concentration camp, in what is now the Czech Republic. Photograph: Radek ...
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NPP Acid Victim Undergoes Successful Operation In Germany
Reports from Germany in indicate that Mr. Peter Mensah, the Techiman North Constituency Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who endured an acid attack on October 21, 2012, is doing well. The 27 year-old communicator of the NPP, and student of the Valley View University, was attacked by unknown persons after he represented the NPP at apeace programme organised by the local Ebenezer ...
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Global Soccer Champions League Final Does Not Mark Start of a German Era
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Berlin girls take second at sectional
LITTLE CHUTE — The Berlin girls track and field team took home second place at the WIAA Division 2 Sectional meet at Little Chute on Thursday. The Indians got state qualifying efforts from Claudia Roca in the triple jump, Jenna Horn in the long jump, Kinsey Harmon in the 1,600-meter run and their 3,200-meter relay ...
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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
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