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Friends Provident targets Germany
UK life and pensions provider Friends Provident has entered the German market as part of a long-term development of business in continental Europe. Aiming to bring innovation and flexibility to Germany, the company has partnered with distribution and service business, Financial Partners Business (fpb) AG, to launch the Friends Plan range of pensions, which can be used for personal and ...
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German Soccer Teams Face Off For League Championship
Robert Siegel speaks with sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about soccer news and Saturday's unlikely Champions League final between two German teams -- Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund at Wembley Stadium in ...
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Amazon workers strike in Germany
Last week, about 1,000 workers went on strike at the Bad Hersfeld and Leipzig sites of the world's largest Internet mail-order company, Amazon, in Germany. Initiated by the Verdi service industries trade union, it was the first strike to be held since Amazon opened in Germany in 1998. Token strikes had been launched at some of the company's sites last April. Verdi called the strike in ...
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Germany tour to enhance bilateral ties China-EU ties
/enpproperty--> BERLIN -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is slated to start an official visit to Germany late Saturday, the last leg of his first overseas trip since taking office in March. Li will meet with German President Joachim Gauck and hold talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel on further cementing China's relationship with Germany and Europe at large. The premier will also deliver a ...
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Chinese premiers visit to enhance partnership German ambassador
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's upcoming visit to Germany will enhance the strategic partnership between the two countries, German Ambassador to China Michael Schaeffer said.The nature of their strategic partnership extends to all areas, including the economic, political and cultural sectors, Schaeffer said.Political dialogue has been elevated to an unprecedented level through mechanisms like ...
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Full text of Chinese premiers signed article on German newspaper
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday published a signed article on German weekly newspaper Die Zeit titled "Open Up New Horizon for China-Germany Relations."The following is the full text of the English translation of the article:I will soon be visiting Germany again to boost China's cooperation with Germany on all fronts. People may want to learn more about the visit, and I ...
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Know What Important Ruling Made This Week Affects German Beer Take The Fark Weird News Quiz
Know what important ruling made this week affects German beer? Take the Fark Weird News Quiz and show your stuff. However, you probably shouldn't drink beer before you take ...
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New horizon for China-Germany ties
Editor's note: Premier Li Keqiang wrote a signed article, titled "Open Up New Horizon for China-Germany Relations", in German-language newspaper Zeit on Thursday. Following is the full text of its English translation. I will soon be visiting Germany again to boost China's cooperation with Germany on all fronts. People may want to learn more about the visit, and I believe ...
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Luka Magnottas Berlin arrest a fluke prompted only by police cadet training report
Berlin police might never have arrested Montreal crime suspect Luka Magnotta but for the fact that their officers were with a group of trainees and "had to give a good example," a new report says.The candid admission from a Berlin police officer is tucked in a special report in Friday's edition of the newspaper La Presse, which sent reporters to revisit the European locations ...
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German Brewers Declare Dont Frack With Our Beer
German brewers are warning officials that the country's highly prized beer industry may be in jeopardy if the practice of fracking becomes ...
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Deutsche Post files EU complaint against German email law
has filed a complaint with the European Commission against a German law that will require government agencies and public services to use a rival encrypted email system.A spokesman for the German postal services group said on Friday that a German bill on the use of "De-Mail", offered by Deutsche ...
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German Banks Fall as Slowdown Fears Intensify
Click Here Now Fear is rising again in debt-plagued Europe. After signs of optimism had grown around European markets, this week's renewed concerns of a global slowdown have hit Europe's stocks hard. ...
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Berlin awarded Champions League final in 2015
Maja Hitij/AP LONDON -- Berlin will stage the Champions League final for the first time in 2015 and Warsaw will be the venue for the Europa League final, UEFA said on Thursday. "Two beautiful venues for our finals for 2015," UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino told a news conference. The timing could not have been better as far as Germany is concerned with an ...
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Bayern Dortmund Await All-German Wembley Final
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German looks forward to seeing old friend again
/enpproperty--> Premier Li Keqiang will be thrilled if he can renew a friendship with a German whom he lost contact with more than 20 years ago. The German plans to show Li rare photos of the premier's 1990 visit to Europe. Li begins the last leg of his four-country tour on Sunday with a state visit to ...
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Artist Kapoor draws on Berlins dark history in new show
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Indian-born British artist Anish Kapoor poses in front of his art work 'Symphony for a Beloved Sun" (2013) during a media preview of the exhibtion 'Kapoor in Berlin' at the ...
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Leading German politician calls transaction tax plans rubbish
BERLIN | Fri May 24, 2013 1:56pm EDT BERLIN May 24 (Reuters) - A leading German politician criticised EU draft plans for a financial transaction tax as "rubbish" on Friday, in a sign of growing concern that the tax could do more economic harm than good. German Social Democrat Nils Schmid, finance minister of the wealthy southern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, said the banks ...
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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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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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