German's Merkel slams Swedish nuclear operator
AFP - Sun Jul 19, 3:47 pm ETGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel hit out at Swedish nuclear operator Vattenfall on Sunday over a series of problems at an ageing reactor near Hamburg.
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Pro-Merkel premier vows snap poll in German state - Summary
EARTHtimes.org - Mon Jul 20, 1:28 pm ETKiel,Germany - Chancellor Angela Merkel's party consolidated its lead in Germany Monday, with a provincial premier, Peter Harry Carstensen, ejecting the ailing Social Democrats from his government in Schleswig-Holstein state. Merkel and Carstensen's ...
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Germany's CSUbridles against Merkel's discipline
EARTHtimes.org - Sat Jul 18, 8:28 am ETNuremberg,Germany - The Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavaria-only sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel's party, stressed its independence at a party Congress Saturday by focusing on its different approach to taxes. With a German general elec...
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Merkel, Steinmeier Urge End of ‘Grand’ Coalition in Election
Bloomberg - Sun Jul 19, 3:33 pm ETJuly 19 (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier , facing off 70 days before national elections, called for an end to Germany’s current government coalition as they vie for the chancellorship.
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Germany's Merkel Likely To Be Reelected Sep 27 Says Poll
Nasdaq - Sun Jul 19, 6:39 am ETBERLIN (AFP)--Ten weeks before general elections, some 80% of Germans expect Chancellor Angela Merkel to win a second term, an opinion poll published Sunday showed.
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German military honours plot against Hitler - Summary
EARTHtimes.org - Mon Jul 20, 2:43 pm ETBerlin - The German military honoured Monday officers who opposed Adolf Hitler, swearing in recruits at a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of a failed plot to kill the Nazi dictator. Chancellor Angela Merkel told young army recruits giving their...
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Merkel Election Win Expected by 80% of Germans, Bild Poll Finds
Bloomberg - Sun Jul 19, 7:26 am ETJuly 19 (Bloomberg) -- Eighty percent of German voters expect Chancellor Angela Merkel to win national elections in 10 weeks’ time, the newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported, citing a poll it commissioned.
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Germany, Russia work together for Opel: Merkel
AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Jul 16, 12:46 pm ETGermany and Russia are "working together for the future of Opel" the carmaker, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday after she met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Munich.
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German government honours military plot against Hitler
EARTHtimes.org - Mon Jul 20, 12:58 pm ETBerlin - The German government honoured military opposition to Nazi Germany and remembered victims of Nazism on Monday in a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of a failed plot against Hitler. Politicians and soldiers laid wreaths at the Bendler Bl...
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Merkel Party Ends German Northernmost State Coalition (Update1)
Bloomberg - Wed Jul 15, 3:48 pm ETJuly 15 (Bloomberg) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel ’s Christian Democratic Union voted to end its four-year-old coalition in Germany’s northernmost state with rival Social Democrats, setting up a regional showdown weeks before the national vote.
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Bremen tops Wolfsburg in German Super Cup
Fox Sports - 16 minutes agoGerman Cup winner Werder Bremen beat Bundesliga champion Wolfsburg 2-1 on Monday to win Germany's Super Cup.
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Medvedev in Germany to talk Nord Stream
UPI - Thu Jul 16, 12:20 pm ETMUNICH, Germany, July 16 (UPI) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met Thursday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss energy security and the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
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Germany denies considering tougher line on banks
AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Jul 20, 9:54 am ETGermany's finance ministry denied on Monday it was considering forcing the country's banks to accept public aid and partially nationalising them to jumpstart lending to cash-strapped firms.
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Merkel Says ‘Wall Street and City of London’ Can’t ‘Dictate’
Bloomberg - Fri Jul 17, 1:03 pm ETJuly 17 (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel slammed “Wall Street and the City of London” for financial recklessness, saying that Group of 20 nations must toughen regulations to ensure global excesses won’t spawn a new crisis.
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France, Germany vie to sell Pakistan subs
UPI - Mon Jul 20, 6:04 pm ETBERLIN, July 20 (UPI) -- Pakistan appears to be losing patience with Germany over a deal worth some $1.5 billion to boost its 10-strong fleet of submarines, or it is playing a reluctant Berlin administration against Paris.
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Germany Would Create Most Jobs Under Merkel-FDP Rule, BGA Says
Bloomberg - Wed Jul 15, 5:03 am ETJuly 15 (Bloomberg) -- A coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel ’s Christian Democratic alliance and the pro-business Free Democratic Party would create the most jobs in Germany, the BGA exporters’ lobby said.
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Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein CDU Premier Fires SPD Ministers
Bloomberg - Mon Jul 20, 2:33 pm ETJuly 20 (Bloomberg) -- Peter Harry Carstensen , the Christian Democratic premier of Germany’s northernmost state who has called for an end to the regional government coalition, fired the four Social Democratic members of his Cabinet.
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Germany may force state aid on banks: report
AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Jul 20, 3:14 am ETGermany may force banks to take state aid to ward off a credit crunch later this year, the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper said on Monday.
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Germany sees big fall in wholesale prices
San Francisco Chronicle - Mon Jul 20, 7:10 am ETGerman wholesale prices fell by 4.6 percent in the year to June, the biggest annual drop in four decades, government statistics showed Monday. The drop compared with a 3.6 percent year-on-year fall in May and was the largest since the producer price index... Sponsored Topics: Producer price index - Business - German language - Wholesale - Germany
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German Ministry Says Won’t Force Higher Bank Capital (Update1)
Bloomberg - Mon Jul 20, 7:03 am ETJuly 20 (Bloomberg) -- The German government isn’t considering forcing banks to increase capital, the Finance Ministry said today, dismissing a report in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
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Merkel’s CDU/CSU Wins in Poll as Social Democrats Stay at Low
Bloomberg - Fri Jul 17, 1:33 am ETJuly 17 (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party gained in voter support while her preferred coalition partner, the Free Democrats, slipped, according to a poll published today.
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