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Car boss asks Merkel to rethink CO2 pledge
The president of the German Automobile Association (VDA) has written to Angela Merkel, asking her to retract her pledge to significantly reduce CO2 car emissions by 2025, it was reported on ...
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Justin Bieber’s monkey to live in Germany - forever
In this April 2, 2013 photo, Capuchin monkey Mally sits on the head of an employee in an animal shelter in Munich, Germany. Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany. (Matthias ...
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German central bank Economy to improve markedly
FRANKFURT, Germany Germany's central bank expects the country's economy to improve "markedly" in the second quarter -- a development that could boost the wider eurozone as it struggles to get out of recession. The Bundesbank said Tuesday that Europe's largest economy should expand more robustly after a weak first three months of the year. Germany grew only 0.1 percent in ...
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Lawmakers call for ban on East German symbols
Germany's Christian Democrats called Tuesday for a ban on symbols associated with the former East Germany totalitarian socialist regime. Earlier in May, veteran Stasi soldiers, the official state security service of East Germany, marched in uniform through Treptow where a Soviet War Memorial and graves of thousands of soldiers are located, TheLocal.de reported. Volker Kauder, ...
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Dinosaur in the Drawer New Species Found in Museum
Dinosaurs used to be found most often in clay or tar pits. But a scientist in Berlin has found a more mundane and unexpected site for the finding of a previously unknown breed of plesiosaur: a museum ...
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German software giant SAP to hire people with autism
autism as software testers and programmers over the next seven years. The company, which has already launched pilot projects in India and Ireland, said the move aimed to find workers "who think differently", leading to innovation. By 2020, one per cent of SAP's currently 65,000-strong workforce is expected to be affected by autism, a company spokesman said. In India the group said ...
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Cannes U.K.s Rainmark Films Partners With Germanys Beta for Nordic Crime Thriller
Cannes: U.K. to Get 'Sake-Bombed' The novel follows 82-year-old widower and ex-Marine Sheldon Horowitz who, having grudgingly moving to Oslo with his granddaughter and her Norwegian husband, witnesses the murder of a woman in his apartment complex. He rescues her six-year-old son and goes on the run, fearing that the Balkan gang responsible for the murder will return. Chased by the ...
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Conservatives demand East German symbol ban
Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU) called on Tuesday for symbols associated with the totalitarian socialist regime of former East Germany to be banned, in the same way that it is illegal to display Nazi ...
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Champions League Final London Pubs Brace for the German Invasion
With tens of thousands of German football fans expected in London for the all-German Champions League final on Saturday, pubs in ...
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Hungary moves to ease tensions after Orban Nazi slur
Hungary has sought to ease tensions with Berlin after Prime Minister Viktor Orban asked Germany not to "send in the tanks again" in a recent interview on state radio.Orban's comments were widely seen as a response to remarks on Hungary by Chancellor Angela Merkel during a televised debate last week with her electoral rival Peer Steinbrueck, but a senior foreign ministry official ...
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Germany Justin Bieber were keeping your monkey
BERLIN Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany. Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs March 28 when Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in Munich. He had until midnight Friday to produce those ...
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Biebers Monkey Becomes German Property
Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany. Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs March 28 when Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in Munich. He had until midnight Friday to produce those ...
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Germany on track for solid Q2 recovery Bundesbank
FRANKFURT: Germany, the euro zone's largest economy, is on track for a solid recovery thanks to a pick-up in demand for its products from abroad, ...
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Farage Germans keen to keep UK in EU not Brits
May 21, 2013 Growing British distrust of the EU has got members of the leading Conservatives to start the push for a referendum on whether to quit. A bill’s in the pipeline for a 2017 deadline for the public to decide if they want to stay in the debt-ridden EU or not. Britain has rattled some cages by pledging an in-out referendum – with France accusing David Cameron of ...
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How the French economy compares to Germanys UKs
PARIS -- Here's how the struggling French economy stacks up compared to Germany's and Britain's.GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (2012)France: 2 trillion euros ($2.7 trillion) Germany: 2.6 trillion euros ($3.3 trillion)Britain: 1.9 trillion euros ($2.4 trillion)MANUFACTURING AS A PERCENT OF GDP (2009)France: 10.7 percentGermany: 19.3 percentBritain: 11.0 percentGROWTH RATE (2012)France: ...
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Justin Bieber’s monkey to become German property
Justin Bieber's pet Capuchin monkey ‘Mally' sits on the head of an employee in an animal shelter in Munich, Germany. AP BERLIN--Justin Bieber’s pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany. Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs March 28 when Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in Munich. He had until ...
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German bank borrowing from Bundesbank hits euro-era low
FRANKFURT | Tue May 21, 2013 6:10am EDT FRANKFURT May 21 (Reuters) - German banks borrowed less money from the Bundesbank as part of the European Central Bank's liquidity operations in April than ever before during the 13-year history of the euro, Bundesbank data showed on Tuesday. The Bundesbank's balance sheet, published in its May monthly report, showed that German banks took ...
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SAP to hire hundreds of autistic IT experts
Hundreds of great job opportunities for foreign professionals at Germany's top employers - in cooperation with Monster, Experteer, Stepstone, and ...
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Germany’s DAX Index Is Little Changed Near Record
DAX (DAX) Index fell from a record and bank shares retreated. Deutsche Bank, the country's biggest lender, fell 1.9 percent. Commerzbank dropped 4.3 ...
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Germany nationalises Bieber monkey
Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany.Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs on March 28 when the pop star failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in Munich.He had until midnight on Friday to produce those documents.Customs spokesman Thomas Meister said after offices opened following a holiday weekend that ...
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The German Bund closed near opening levels
On Monday, many European markets closed for Whit Monday holiday, keeping trading flows in the Bund very low. In the US, the market calendar was devoid of market moving releases or events. Besides some intraday volatility, US Treasuries ended the opening session of the week nearly unchanged , even if volumes traded were not bad. Intraday, US Treasuries moved higher at the onset of US trading, but ...
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Ethiopia Germany Supports Ethiopias Agriculture Sector
Germany will further strengthen ongoing support through knowledge and technology transfer towards growth of Ethiopia's agricultural productivity, the Federal Minister of Agriculture of Germany, llse Aigner has said. A German-Ethiopian advanced training center with the Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center was inaugurated by Aigner and Agriculture State Minister Wondyirad Mandefro. The ...
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CORRECTED-German stocks - Factors to watch on May 20
Tue May 21, 2013 3:37am EDT (In May 20 item, corrects to remove Aixtron from ex-dividend section as the company did not pay a dividend for 2012) FRANKFURT May 20 (Reuters) - The DAX top-30 index looked set to open 0.6 percent higher on Monday, which is a public holiday in Germany, though the Frankfurt stock exchange is open for trading. The following are some of the factors that may move German ...
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Germanys $835 million blunder
Germany's Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere has come under fire over scrapping of a prestigious drone project after investing around $835 million to build a prototype of the unmanned reconnaissance ...
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Germany and Hungary at odds over Orban tanks comment
07/02/2013 11:01 CET The smiles may be slightly forced when Germany’s Angela Merkel and Hungary’s Viktor Orban meet at Wednesday’s EU summit following a spat between their governments over comments littered with military – and Nazi – analogies. In response to criticism of his government, Hungary’s prime minister said on Friday he hoped Germany would not ...
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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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