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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.
Berlin - Germany plans to team up with France in the final choice of a leadership for the reformed European Union (EU), German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after a cabinet meeting near Berlin Wednesday. Though she did not mention any names, she said...
FRANKFURT -(Dow Jones)- German utility Vattenfall Europe AG Thursday said it has reopened the bidding process for its power transmission grid after the company failed to agree on key issues with a financial consortium with which it was in exclusive talks.
The decision by General Motors appeared intended to earn favor with the officials in Berlin who control the release of billions of euros in aid for restructuring.
General Motors' interim Europe chief completed a tour of Opel's four German plants on Wednesday pledging none would be shut down as the US giant slashes capacity at its loss-making unit.
In a move to attract new businesses, the Catoosa County Chamber of Commerce is offering German-language classes this spring to extend friendly greetings to potential new partners. In other words...
(Adds data from Baden-Wuerttemberg and analyst comment.) By Geoffrey T. Smith Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)--Consumer prices in six of Germany's largest federal states rose in year-on-year terms for the first time since the spring, according to data published Thursday.
ROME (JTA) -- Pope Benedict XVI met with a Holocaust survivor from his native Germany. The pope met on Wednesday, after his weekly general audience, with Cacilie Peiser, the founder and honorary president of the Child Survivors Deutschland Association.
Gretel Bergmann matched a German high jump record on June 30, 1936. Two weeks later, the 5 feet, 3 inches she jumped in Stuttgart, Germany, was all but obliterated and she was kicked off the team. Bergmann was Jewish. She would miss that year's Berlin Olympics. There was no way the Nazis would allow a Jew to compete and possibly win. Now comes news that Germany's track and field association ...
Berlin- Two of Germany's highest military officials lost their jobs Thursday and a former defence minister came under severe pressure, accused of covering up their knowledge of civilian casualties of a bombing raid in Afghanistan. The re...
BERLIN, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A former paratrooper in the German Army says discrimination against gays continues almost two decades after it was officially abolished.
(Adds data from Bavaria and analyst comment.) By Geoffrey T. Smith Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)--Consumer prices in five of Germany's largest federal states rose in year-on-year terms for the first time since the spring, according to data published Thursday.
A top General Motors executive completed a tour of Opel's four German plants on Wednesday pledging that none would be shut down as the US giant takes the axe to its loss-making unit.
(Adds information about price trends in individual sectors.) FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)--Consumer prices in four of Germany's largest federal states rose in year-on-year terms for the first time since the spring, according to data published Thursday.
FRANKFURT (AP) — German police have questioned two players from the Fortuna Duesseldorf soccer club Thursday in connection with the widening match-fixing scandal in Europe.
Gretel Bergmann matched a German high jump record on June 30, 1936. Two weeks later, the 5 feet, 3 inches she jumped in Stuttgart, Germany, was all but obliterated and she was kicked off the team.
Devon Hollahan was reported missing while traveling with a friend in Frankfurt, Germany.
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The German government returned a Hans Makart painting, which had been in the collection of a museum in Muenster for 40 years, to the heirs of a Jewish woman persecuted by the Nazis and forced to sell it in 1940.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Claudia Pechstein, who has won nine speed skating Olympic medals for Germany, will miss the 2010 Winter Olympics because of a doping ban.
Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Germany may strengthen its military commitment to Afghanistan while aiming to hand over some areas to local security forces as early as 2010, Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said.
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.
