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BERLIN -(Dow Jones)- Programs to keep people employed by reducing work hours have helped prevent broad layoffs in Germany and will be extended, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday.
General Motors has repaid the 1.5 billion euros (2.2 billion dollars) in bridging loans it received from Germany to keep its troubled European unit Opel afloat, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday.
BERLIN -(Dow Jones)- There is no certain way to predict how and when the global economy will recover, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday. "It's next to impossible to predict how the international economic situation will develop," Merkel said at a business conference in Berlin.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- German carmakers battered by the strong euro and the end of “cash for clunkers” incentives are set to benefit from an extension of subsidies to keep workers on the payroll decided by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet.
Germany plans to ease regulations limiting night flights at the country’s airports. Chancellor Angela Merkel's recently formed center-right coalition agreed to limit powers allowing Germany's 16 federal states to ban or restrict night flights at their local airports.
BERLIN -(Dow Jones)- German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet has approved an extension of government subsidies for short-shift work at companies suffering in the recession, a government source said Wednesday.
The German government plans to extend a state-funded jobs program through 2010 in an effort to keep people working while companies ride out the global economic crisis, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that General Motors Co. has returned all of a bridging loan awarded by the German government to help its European Opel unit. MErkel made her comments in a speech in Berlin today.
Berlin - Despite a brace of positive data for the German economy on Tuesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel warned against undue optimism at an employers' conference in Berlin. We find ourselves on very volatile ground, Merkel said, adding that a new spe...
Germany sees "broad support" for a resolution on Iran at the upcoming meeting of the UN atomic watchdog here, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said here Wednesday.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Germany's foreign minister urged Iran Wednesday to shift from nuclear confrontation to cooperation, with the German official warning Tehran only had limited time to avoid possible new U.N. sanctions.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) --The German economy may shrink by less than 5 percent this year, Ulrich Wilhelm, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief spokesman, told reporters in Berlin today. The government said Oct. 16 the economy will contract 5 percent in 2009.
General Motors will keep open its Eisenach plant in Germany, GM's interim Europe chief Nick Reilly said on Wednesday after earlier giving assurances that its other three German sites would also be safe.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks rebounded after purchases of new homes in the U.S. jumped more than anticipated in October. Germany’s DAX Index gained 0.3 percent to 5,784.34 as of 4:12 p.m. in Frankfurt, having declined as much as 0.3 percent earlier.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- A German court in Hanover, Germany ruled that the so-called solidarity charge, started in 1991 to help finance the costs of rebuilding eastern Germany, is unconstitutional, Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported today.
Berlin - The German and Spanish governments said Wednesday they plan to work closely to avert major job losses and factory closures at General Motors' European division Opel. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodrig...
FRANK AUGSTEIN/APThis Aug. 13, 2009 file photo shows the logo of the energy supplier RWE is seen at the company's headquarters in Essen, western Germany. German power company and utility RWE AG said Wednesday it will sell its remaining 3.7...
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Co. may close its plant in Belgium and cut 5,400 German jobs as the company seeks an accord with workers to restructure its Adam Opel GmbH unit.
BERLIN -(Dow Jones)- Governments worldwide will need "coordinated exit strategies" as they emerge from the economic crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a conference Friday.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- A German state court said the government’s surcharge on income tax and profits started in 1991 to help rebuild the former communist east may be unconstitutional and asked a higher court to rule on it.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Co. plans to scrap a layer of management and keep open all four German factories at its Adam Opel GmbH unit as the U.S. automaker seeks an agreement with workers to cut as many as 9,500 jobs.
