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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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German Soccer Rules Europe Can It Conquer the World
Murdoch's Sky Deutschland Scores Big With Bundesliga Rights For the 200 million viewers who will watch the first-ever all-German Champions League final on Saturday, the message is clear: European soccer now speaks with a German ...
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Germany tops Japan in popularity poll
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
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Football quiz Bayern Munich
Champions League final: live webchat with Barney Ronay Barney Ronay will be online from 12pm to answer your questions about Bayern Munich v Borussia ...
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Thomas Muller Bayern Munich couldnt handle losing a Champions League final again
He had won the European Cup. That much was certain. The header had been from close range at the far post and was directed powerfully downwards. The ball touched the bottom of the crossbar as it went in. There were seven minutes left. Bayern Munich had lined up to take shots. They had missed a penalty, struck the post, had a goal disallowed. Chelsea had yet to force a corner. Finally, the ...
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Germanys Einstein Tower Is Relatively Important
Connecticut Sun . And like any casino worth its chips, the Sun brings in aging rockers like Megadeth, Styx, and REO Speedwagon. It's not just that you can gamble away your pennies at a resort tucked in a riverside woodland; the 34-story hotel tower juts out of the landscape like a crystal mountain. But casinos tend to want people to stay in the gambling halls, so conveniently, it also has a ...
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Germany Q1 GDP growth confirmed at 0.1 qq
Q1 GDP second estimate confirmed that it increased 0.1% q/q. Demand component breakdown pointed that private consumption, up 0.8%, was the main driver of this small rebound in activity following a 0.7% fall in Q4. In addition May IFO survey bodes well for the recovery momentum in the coming ...
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German IGO sees significant improvement in Q2 GDP
EU Market Update: Core European data sooths risk aversion concerns and trims calls for more ECB rate cuts; German IGO sees significant improvement in Q2 ...
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Germany builds up new steam for growth
The German economy, the powerhouse in Europe, is picking up new steam and is set to gather speed later in the year after a weak start, data indicated on Friday.Consumers have the confidence to spend and business sentiment is rising.Final data published by the federal statistics office Destatis showed that Germany's gross domestic product (GDP) notched up anaemic growth of 0.1 percent from ...
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EURJPY back up to the 61.8 Fib after German IFO Third time lucky break
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EURGBP heads towards technical resistance at 0.8600 after German IFO
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German business confidence up unexpectedly in May Ifo
FRANKFURT (AFP) - German business confidence rose unexpectedly in May, data showed on Friday, as businesses in Europe's top economy express satisfaction with their situation and become more optimistic about the future.The Ifo economic institute's closely watched business climate index rose to 105.7 points in May from 104.4 points in April. Analysts had been expecting an unchanged ...
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Herrenberg is a colourful cultural gem
How did you end up in Herrenberg? I'm a writer from New York and my husband, an engineer from Minnesota. We met as students at Cornell after returning from our summer abroad in Germany. He had fallen in love with Germany as a child while touring with the Metropolitan Boy's Choir and dreamed of moving here, one which we realized when he was hired by the internationally renowned Frog ...
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Immigrants more skilled than many Germans
Forty-three percent of newly arrived foreigners aged between 15 and 65 boast a professional qualification in a trade; something only 26 percent of Germans have. The study, conducted by labour market researcher Herbert ...
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German consumers keep recession at bay
Buoyant consumer confidence and increased household spending is keeping Germany, Europe's biggest economy, from recession, despite sagging exports and falling investment, data showed on ...
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Cardinal Women should stay at home and breed
A leading German Catholic cardinal says the government should encourage women to stay at home and breed - rather than bring immigrants into the country to solve its demographic ...
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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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