December 6, 2009
Man faces court for blackmail of SAP founder
A man accused of trying to blackmail billionaire Dietmar Hopp for more than €5 million will face court this week, after a classic Hollywood-style sting conducted in top secret. READ (1 COMMENT) »
Grey seal watching trips start as population stabilises
The first seal-watching expeditions to see grey seals on the north German coast started this weekend after the population was considered stable enough to cope with public observation. READ »
Two-degree target crucial to Copenhagen, minister says
Germany's environment minister said the Copenhagen climate summit would fail if nations did not agree to a maximum two-degree rise in Earth's temperature, in an interview published on Sunday. READ »
Museum chief says Egypt has not demanded Nefertiti's return
Egypt has not demanded the return of the Nefertiti bust which has pride of place in Berlin’s Neues Museum, according to Michael Eissenhauer, head of the city’s museums, stressing that it is there to stay. READ »
German woman found stabbed to death on Italian motorway
Italian police are investigating the murder of a German woman whose body was found next to a motorway in the Calabria region on Saturday. READ »
Hamburg police attack 'was to mark death of Greek student'
A group calling themselves ‘the hoodie wearers’ has claimed responsibility for the Hamburg police station attack on Thursday, saying it was to mark the first anniversary of the death of a teenager in Greece who was shot by police. READ (1 COMMENT) »
Death certificate of WWI ace the Red Baron found in Poland
The death certificate of German World War I fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen has turned up in western Poland, the daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported Saturday. READ (3 COMMENTS) »
Westerwelle defends Swiss after minaret ban
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Saturday that it was wrong to consider Switzerland a nation of bigots after its vote in favour of a ban on building new mosque minarets. READ (9 COMMENTS) »
Opel to cut more than 8,000 jobs, still needs €3.3 billion
The Opel restructuring plan is pretty much finished, with around 8,300 jobs set to be cut, according to Nick Reilly, new chairman of General Motors Europe, who talked about it in a telephone conference on Saturday. READ »
Deutsche Bahn picked for UK rail services
Germany's Deutsche Bahn said Friday it had been selected to operate trains and stations on the Tyne and Wear Metro in and around the English cities of Newcastle and Sunderland. READ (1 COMMENT) »
- 04/12 Economies of eastern German states show more spark »
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- 03/12 Deutsche Bahn faces long-distance bus rivals (7 comments) »
- 03/12 Siemens posts billion euro loss (1 comment) »
- 02/12 Brüderle demands banks boost business lending »
Thou shalt not shop
Jost Müller-Neuhof from Der Tagesspiegel wonders how Germans can slam a Swiss vote to ban minarets on mosques as an attack on religious freedom yet blithely accept being told by Christian churches they can't shop on Sundays. READ (4 COMMENTS) »
Opening the door to holiday torture
In the latest installment of Portnoy’s Stammtisch, The Local’s column about life in Germany, Portnoy cracks open the tiny door to Advent calendar torture. READ (6 COMMENTS) »
A contract for both sides of Germany’s integration equation
The German government’s newly proposed “integration contract” for immigrants could be a step forward – but only if its a two-way commitment, argues Der Tagesspiegel’s Jost Müller-Neuhof. READ (41 COMMENTS) »
The Best of the Rhineland in December
Bored in Bonn? Confused in Cologne? Depressed in Düsseldorf? Not anymore. This month we inaugurate our partnership with Rhine-online, an English-language guide to what’s going on in the Rhineland. READ »
Celebrating Nikolaus in Germany
Each December 6, German children celebrate Nikolaus. Why does the Santa look-alike come so early and why do all the children place their shoes outside on the evening before? The Local has the lowdown. READ (4 COMMENTS) »
What's on in Germany: December 3 - 9
This Week's Highlights: Tattoos in Berlin, The Pet Shop Boys play Hamburg and Munich gets mediaeval for Christmas. READ »
- 05/12 Banned footie fan takes complaint to top court (2 comments) »
- 05/12 Warmer, damper weather to replace chill of last few days »
- 05/12 Bisky suggests Left and SPD should make up, possibly even fuse »
- 05/12 Nearly seven years prison for child abuser guru Oliver Shanti (3 comments) »
- 05/12 US pilot opposed German Afghan attack orders (7 comments) »
- 04/12 Germany faces Australia, Ghana and Serbia (31 comments) »
- 04/12 Stuttgart station revamp raises hopes, hackles »
- 04/12 Berlin and Hamburg attacks an anarchist 'declaration of war' (13 comments) »
- 04/12 Study finds no dangerous radiation around nuclear Asse dump (3 comments) »
- 04/12 Going back to old school organic farming (1 comment) »
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