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Hollande announces Franco-German economic initiative
France and Germany are working on a joint economic initiative to put to their European Union partners at a summit in June, French President Francois Hollande said Wednesday.It would be the first Franco-German initiative since the French Socialist leader took office a year ago.Hollande said at the close of an EU tax and energy summit that he and Chancellor Angela Merkel were planning talks ...
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Germany Works to Curb European Youth Unemployment
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Pella beats Top 10 player at ATP tournament in Germany
Qualifier Guido Pella defeated a Top 10 player Wednesday in gaining a spot in the quarterfinals of the Power Horse Cup tennis tournament in Germany. Pella, ranked No. 101 in the world, eliminated ...
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Germany now owns Justin Bieber’s pet monkey
Canadian pop star Justin Bieber performs in front of a crowd of 15,000 fans at the Sevens Stadium in Dubai on May 4, 2013. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty ...
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German IT firm seeks autistic workers
Declaring its eagerness to find workers that "think differently", a German software giant has announced it plans to recruit hundreds of people ...
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Cop faces charges for punching woman
German state prosecutors filed on Wednesday charges against a policeman who punched a woman in the face, breaking her nose and eye socket while she was at a Munich police station in ...
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Syrian Rebels in Trouble German Intelligence Sees Assad Regaining Hold
Not even a year ago, German intelligence predicted Syrian autocrat Bashar Assad's regime would soon collapse. Now, the agency instead believes the rebels are in trouble. Government troops are set to make significant advances, it ...
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Germans French eye plan to create jobs for young
Germany's labor minister, Ursula von der Leyen, said Wednesday that she and her French counterpart will meet in Paris next week along with the countries' finance ministers and European industry representatives to discuss the initiative. On July 3, Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to host a meeting of the 27 European Union nations' labor ministers and national labor agency heads in ...
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German Chancellor Merkel Named Worlds Most Powerful Woman
German chancellor Angela Merkel has been named as the most powerful woman in the world by business magazine Forbes for a third year in a row. Merkel has now made the Forbes list eight times out of the past ten years -- seven times as No. 1. Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, who is of Bulgarian dissent, is second in the list. Melinda Gates and Michelle Obama are third and fourth, ...
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Germany France seek to fight EU youth unemployment aim for better use of existing funds
BERLIN - Germany and France are preparing to launch a drive to combat the problem of high European youth unemployment, which officials in Berlin say will centre on trying to get business involved and make better use of already-pledged public money. Germany's labour minister, Ursula von der Leyen, said Wednesday that she and her French counterpart will meet in Paris next week along with the ...
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Germanys Bundesbank chief says France must cut deficit
PARIS (AFP) - The head of Germany's Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, said France needs to make additional efforts to reduce its public deficit, in an interview published Wednesday.France was originally supposed to bring its public deficit back to the EU's ceiling of 3.0 percent of gross domestic product, but has won a two-year extension from the European Commission.Given that the Commission, ...
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War Crimes in Italy German Prosecutors Reject Massacre Case
REUTERS A monument commemorates the victims of a Nazi SS massacre in the Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, in northern ...
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Deadly Drug Trials Western Firms Bribed East German Doctors
It wasn't just the East German government that benefited from risky patient drug trials commissioned by Western pharmaceutical manufacturers decades ago. These companies also sent liaisons with lavish gifts to bribe and influence doctors to ...
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German-French plan to help jobless
unemployment has become a pressing problem in many countries as economic belt-tightening continues.The German-French initiative comes at a time when both governments are under pressure: Germany faces criticism of its austerity-heavy remedy for Europe's debt crisis, while France has gone ...
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German-French plan to tackle EUs youth unemployment
Germany and France are preparing to launch a drive to combat the problem of high youth unemployment in Europe.Germany's labour minister said that she and her French counterpart will meet in Paris next week along with the countries' finance ministers and European industry representatives to discuss the initiative. Officials in Berlin say the jobs drive will focus on putting already ...
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Huey-Inglot gains q’finals in Dusseldorf
Filipino Treat Huey and Dominic Inglot of Great Britain barged into the men’s doubles quarterfinals of the Power Horse Cup ATP 250 Tuesday with a hard-earned 5-7, 7-6 (7-2), 10-2 victory over local bet Philip Marx and Florin Mergen of Romania in Dusseldorf, Germany. The come-from-behind triumph lifted the third-seeded tandem of Huey and Inglot into a Final 8 clash with Daniel Brands of ...
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German software firm SAP plans to hire hundreds with autism
German software firm SAP says it wants to hire hundreds of people with autism to work as programmers and testers for its products. In a statement Wednesday, the firm said it hopes the plan will boost the number of workers with autism to as much as one per cent of its 65,000 workforce by 2020. Autism is a developmental disorder that can cause difficulties communicating in certain situations. ...
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German opposition attacks Merkel minister over dud drone deal
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, May 22 , 2013. REUTERS/Thomas ...
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Tipsarevic suffers early Dusseldorf exit
DUSSELDORF – Top seed Janko Tipsarevic suffered a 7-6 (7-1), 6-1 loss to Argentine Guido Pella to exit the PowerHorse Open in an opening match shock, with the world number ten Serb now concerned about his lack of form heading into the French ...
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UPDATE 1-Germany takes bilateral paths to tackle EU jobs crisis
Wed May 22, 2013 10:49am EDT * Deals with Portugal, Spain and France * Berlin aims to get speedier response than EU * Critics say efforts are belated By Annika Breidthardt BERLIN, May 22 (Reuters) - Germany is banking on bilateral deals to fight record youth unemployment in the euro zone, agreeing to cooperate with several countries to bypass pan-European bureaucracy. On Wednesday, Finance ...
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German intel Assad strengthening hold in Syria
Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime has become more stable, gaining an upper hand in capabilities to successfully thwart rebels amid the conflit plaguing the country, German foreign intelligence agency assessments were reported as stating Wednesday in German ...
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CORRECTED-Deutsche Bank deepens Tier 2 market next stop Tier 1
Wed May 22, 2013 10:08am EDT (Corrects third paragraph to state bond is SEC-registered and not 144a, and in the same paragraph that it priced at T+237.5bp, not 262.5bp) * New 15 non-call 10 structure hailed a success * European banks tipped to sell follow-up deals * Additional Tier 1 seen as next step for Deutsche By Aimee Donnellan and Danielle Robinson LONDON, May 22 (IFR) - Deutsche Bank ...
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Germany backs call to put Hezbollah armed wing on EU terror list
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany will throw its weight behind a British drive to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations, German diplomats said on ...
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Major Event in Germany Promoting European Magnitsky Sanctions Cancelled Because German Government Refuses to Grant Safe Passage to William Browder from Politically Motivated Russian Arrest Warrant
Release 22 May 2013 - German authorities have refused to grant William Browder, the leader of the global campaign for justice for Sergei Magnitsky, safe passage to Germany from a politically motivated Russian arrest warrant, resulting in the cancellation of the European Magnitsky Law event, scheduled in Berlin on 27 May 2013. In the latest development concerning the Magnitsky sanctions, the ...
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Sahara Sams Berlin park to celebrate expansion
With summer around the corner, Sahara Sams in West Berlin, N.J. underwent a $6.5 million expansion, according to the Courier Post. The waterpark includes a 25-meter leisure pool, a childrens play zone, and a ...
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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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