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Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes General Motors Co. ’s four Opel German factories face a good future after the U.S. company presented its restructuring plans, Reuters said.
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.
Germany's annual inflation rate increased to 0.3 percent in November from zero last month as fuel prices rose, according to preliminary data released Thursday.
(RTTNews) - The German government should concentrate its efforts on bringing down its fiscal deficit in line with E.U. regulations by 2012, European Central Bank Governing Council member and Bundesbank President Axel Weber commented on Thursday.
Germany on Wednesday extended until the end of 2010 a program that allows companies to put workers on short work hours in an effort to avoid layoffs -- an arrangement credited with keeping unemployment down over recent months.
A regional German court has taken a decision that could cost the government billions of euros. It has ruled that the "solidarity" income tax surcharge introduced in 1991 to help rebuild eastern Germany is unconstitutional. The matter will now go before Germany's top court.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The DAX Index tumbled the most since July on concern Dubai’s proposal to delay debt payments may trigger a wave of writedowns and losses amid banks and affect Gulf investors that hold stakes in German carmakers.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- German government bonds rose, pushing the 10-year bund yield to a six-week low, as a proposal by Dubai to delay debt payments spurred investors to seek the safety of assets perceived to be lower risk.
BERLIN, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- German Gen. Wolfgang Schneiderhan resigned amid allegations he did not provide enough information regarding a deadly attack in Afghanistan, an official said.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- German consumer prices posted their first annual gain in seven months in November as rising oil prices pushed up energy costs.
WIESBADEN, Germany - General Motors Co.'s top European official underlined the future importance of Opel's biggest German plant on Wednesday, while reiterating that there likely will be up to 9,500 jobs cut across the continent.
Duesseldorf, Germany - A threatened Opel car plant in the German city of Bochum will not now be closed, General Motors' (GM) European Chief Executive Nick Reilly said Tuesday. The 4,900 staff at the plant in western Germany had feared closure under G...
(RTTNews) - Consumer prices in Germany grew 0.3% year-on-year in November after staying flat in October, a preliminary report from the Federal Statistical Office showed on Thursday. Economists had expected a 0.5% increase.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- German consumer confidence unexpectedly declined for a second month as households grew more concerned about job security, according to market-research company GfK AG.
Croatian police said Tuesday they arrested a Slovenian man in connection with the investigation into match-fixing in European football. Police said Dragan Mihelic, 38, was stopped Monday as he was entering Croatia from neighboring Slovenia on an arrest warrant issued by Germany. German authorities suspect him of fraud and money laundering in Europe's biggest match-fixing scandal.
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Kassel, Germany - A German court quashed Wednesday three-month jail terms imposed on a home-schooling couple who refuse to send their children to a state school, and gave them token fines instead. The ruling was unusual in Germany, which, unlike othe...
VIENNA (AP) - Germany's foreign minister and the chief U.N. nuclear inspector are urging Iran to shift from nuclear confrontation to cooperation, with the German official warning of possible new U.N. sanctions.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Bundesbank President Axel Weber said the German economy is on the brink of a sustainable recovery. “The investment dynamic has developed a bit better than expected,” Weber said in Leipzig today. “We’re not yet out of a crisis scenario.
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Consumer prices in five German states rose in November from a year earlier, led by higher energy costs. The inflation rates in Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia rose to 0.4 percent from zero in October, the states’ statistics offices in Munich and Dusseldorf said today.
A panel of top German economists, which has slammed the country's huge public debt, says Chancellor Angela Merkel's new government should take back its "gift baskets" of tax relief, a German weekly reported.
