February 9, 2010
Medical experts warned of grave health danger to children on Monday following weekend reports that many important infant vaccinations have not been delivered to German hospitals since late January. READ (3 COMMENTS) »
The harsh winter weather continued to batter Germany on Monday, with more snow in the forecast. Hospitals reported a spike in ice-related injuries and an ice breaker delivered provisions to the Baltic Sea island of Hiddensee. READ (2 COMMENTS) »
The party could soon be over for Germany’s smallest Karneval parade unless the town of Unna in North Rhine-Westphalia can find a replacement for its retiring merry jester. READ (1 COMMENT) »
Indie cinemas are a dying breed the world over... except in Berlin, home to nearly 60 small arthouse and neighbourhood venues. As Alice Harrison reports, some are even getting the red carpet treatment at this year's Berlinale. READ »
Deutsche Bahn CEO Rüdiger Grube has personally intervened after a 16-year-old girl thrown off a train on one of the coldest nights of the year was compensated by the company with a bottle of wine. READ (12 COMMENTS) »
A German tax dodger has won millions in damages in a suit against his Liechtenstein bank for failing to reveal that his information was stolen along with hundreds of other account holders and sold to Berlin for a criminal investigation. READ (7 COMMENTS) »
Chancellor Merkel's junior coalition partners, the pro-business Free Democrats, have agreed to quicken the pace of their promised reforms in reaction to the party's rapidly falling public approval ratings. READ (2 COMMENTS) »
South Korea is keen to learn from Germany's experience of melding capitalist and communist rival states, officials said after a presidential summit on Monday. READ (7 COMMENTS) »
Shares in German-based SAP, the world's largest professional software group, slumped Monday after the company said Leo Apotheker would step down as chief executive officer to be replaced by two company insiders. READ »
Public workers’ union Verdi called for strikes in northern Germany on Monday as their wage dispute with state and municipal employers continued. READ (1 COMMENT) »
The German government should have no qualms about buying stolen Swiss information on rich tax dodgers, argues Ludwig Greven from Zeit Online. READ (8 COMMENTS) »
Buying stolen Swiss information on rich tax dodgers is wrong and puts Germany on shaky moral ground, argues Kai Biermann from Zeit Online. READ (3 COMMENTS) »
Germany’s tepid proposals for the future of Afghanistan are not enough to ensure peace and stability in the troubled country, argues Dr. Henning Riecke from the German Council on Foreign Relations. READ (22 COMMENTS) »
Allow The Local to explain why Karneval's boozy zaniness isn't just for Catholics or people from the Rhineland. Who needs naked Samba dancers in Rio when you have drunk Germans in clown suits in Cologne, right? READ »
This month Rhine-online, the Rhineland’s leading English-language website, offers some Karneval insight, uncovers a Mapplethorpe retrospective in Düsseldorf, and dines the Michelin-way in Königswinter. READ »
This Week's Highlights: Milow plays Berlin, George Seurat comes to Frankfurt, and Finnish writers and DJs present an evening of clubbing Helsinki-style in Munich. READ »
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