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Fraternities mull Aryan purity test for members
bitter divide between far-right and liberal elements. The split came to a head earlier this year, when 18 liberal fraternities voted to leave the umbrella organisation in protest over what they said was growing extremist sentiment. Approximately 1,500 of the 10,000 members are thought to align themselves with various degrees of extremist nationalism. Burschenschaft customs include wearing ...
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Luka Magnotta 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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Brain Gain Immigrants Often Better Educated than Germans
radical change is taking place in the German job market: Today's immigrants to Germany are better trained and have a higher level of education than native Germans, according to a study carried out by labor market researcher Herbert ...
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Know Your Limit Germany Seeks Uniform Law on Marijuana
The laws regarding cannabis possession in Germany are nothing if not confusing. It is illegal to possess or consume marijuana. Except that carrying a small amount for personal use has no criminal repercussions. But how much is okay? That depends on where you are. Each state has a different ...
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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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Champions League Final 2013Bayern Munich vs Borussia Dortmund Bavarians one step further in Wembley Preview UEFA News
Bayern Munich favorite Champions League German Final 2013 at London however Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Kloop’s stil got a tricks for mighty Bayern in ...
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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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The DB Hedged-Germany ETF Switcheroo
Deutsche Bank is rolling out its db X-trackers MSCI Germany Hedged Equity Fund (NYSEArca:DBGR) on May 31, but the launch is really a matter of an existing fund, the db-X MSCI Canada Hedged Equity Fund ( ), shedding its existing name, index and ticker and gaining a new ticker, a new index and a new name. In other words, the debut of the hedged Germany strategy will also mark the end of the ...
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Germany Should Cut Tax on Energy to Help Transition BayWa Says
Germany should cut value-added tax levied on energy consumption to help cut household bills as the nation transitions to wind and solar generation from fossil fuels and nuclear, according ...
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Mads Mikkelsen back after Cannes win with French role
Danish star Mads Mikkelsen fires crossbows, delivers a baby colt and speaks fluent French in the Renaissance drama "Michael Kohlhaas", which joined the competition Friday at Cannes.Mikkelsen, who picked up the festival's top actor prize last year for his turn as a man falsely accused of child abuse in "The Hunt", plays a 16th-century horse dealer who rises up against a ...
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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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May 24 News Autsch Fracking Threatens The German Beer Industry.
German brewers have warned Chancellor Angela Merkel that any law allowing the controversial drilling technique known as fracking could damage the country’s cherished beer industry. The Brauer-Bund beer association is worried that fracking for shale gas, which involves pumping water and chemicals at high pressure into the ground, could pollute water used for brewing and break a ...
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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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Weidmann says default should be option for eurozone countries
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 conservative ...
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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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Hitlers shadow looms over anniversary of VW hometown
Europe's number one carmaker Volkswagen is not keen on celebrating the 75th birthday of its German home town of Wolfsburg on Sunday because of the long shadow cast by Adolf Hitler there."It was all just a bit of Nazi propaganda," a spokesman for the carmaker said, referring to the festivities 75 years ago when the Nazi leader laid the foundation stone for a factory that would ...
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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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