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Merkel to interrupt holiday for Saturday Love Parade service
Politics: 27 Jul 10
Angela Merkel is to break off her holiday to attend a memorial service for the victims of the Love Parade crush this Saturday, according to media reports.
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Love parade founder Dr Motte blames new organisers for disaster
National: 25 Jul 10
Love Parade founder DJ Dr Motte has accused organisers of being only concerned with making money, and not taking responsibility for the people attending the techno party in Duisburg where 19 people died on Saturday.
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German president to honour Löw and team as ‘ambassadors’
Sport: 11 Jul 10
Both coach Joachim Löw and his squad are to receive Germany's top honours after winning “the hearts and minds” of fans by finishing third at the World Cup, it was revealed on Sunday.
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SPD refuses Left invitation to opposition summit
Politics: 4 Jul 10
The centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) has turned down an invitation from The Left party to convene for an opposition summit, following the opposition's failure to topple Angela Merkel's government in last week's presidential election.
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Majority of Germans expect coalition failure
Politics: 2 Jul 10
Germany’s trust in its government was shaken by the difficult presidential vote this week, with a poll released on Friday showing more than two-thirds believe Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition will soon collapse as a result.
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Half-Scot McAllister elected Lower Saxony's state premier
Politics: 1 Jul 10
The Lower Saxony state parliament made history on Thursday by electing conservative German-Scot David McAllister premier, making him the youngest-ever state leader and the first to hold British citizenship.
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President 'debacle' casts shadow over Merkel
Politics: 1 Jul 10
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was left licking her wounds Thursday after rebels in her coalition turned a routine presidential vote into a damaging debacle that left her bruised and weakened.
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Christian Wulff: From Merkel rival to youngest president
Politics: 1 Jul 10
Christian Wulff, who on Wednesday became Germany's youngest-ever president after a nail-biting election, has long been a potential rival to Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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The damage control president
Analysis & Opinion: 1 Jul 10
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to nominate Christian Wulff as president was an act of damage control. But his difficult election on Wednesday has ended up tarnishing both her beleaguered government and Germany’s new head of state.
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Wulff elected president, Merkel humiliated
Politics: 30 Jun 10
Christian Wulff, the German government's candidate for president, was elected the country's head of state on Wednesday after a tortuously long vote seen as public humiliation for Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Germany to choose new president
Politics: 30 Jun 10
Germany was counting down the hours Wednesday morning to the vote for a new president, with centre-right candidate Christian Wulff still the frontrunner yet with commentators refusing to write off opposition pick Joachim Gauck.
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Gauck turns to The Left for votes ahead of election
Politics: 29 Jun 10
One day ahead of Germany's presidential election, candidate Joachim Gauck on Tuesday went hunting for votes with a visit to the socialist Left party despite previous attempts to distance himself from its politics.
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Scotsman to make history as state premier
Politics: 28 Jun 10
Part of a new, increasingly diverse generation of German politicians, half-Scottish David McAllister is set to become the new premier of Lower Saxony. He spoke to The Local's David Wroe.
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Gauck not intending to damage Merkel in presidential race
Politics: 20 Jun 10
Presidential candidate Joachim Gauck says he will not allow himself to be used to damage Chancellor Angela Merkel, and after a one-on-one meeting with her candidate Christian Wulff, said he was qualified to do the job in his way.
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Wulff calls on coalition to back candidacy
Politics: 18 Jun 10
As Germany's presidential vote draws near, conservative candidate Christian Wulff on Friday called for more cooperation within the ruling centre-right coalition, saying a failure to elect him would send the wrong signal to the public.
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One-fifth of Germans want Merkel to resign
Politics: 16 Jun 10
Every fifth German wants embattled Chancellor Angela Merkel to resign and call new elections, and a whopping 86 percent of them are unhappy with her government, new polls showed Wednesday.
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Köhler defends surprise resignation
Politics: 16 Jun 10
Germany honoured former German President Horst Köhler during an official farewell ceremony on Tuesday night, during which he defended his surprise resignation last month.
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Embattled coalition faces calls for fresh elections
Politics: 14 Jun 10
Is Chancellor Angela Merkel’s embattled centre-right coalition on the ropes? German opposition politicians on Monday demanded early elections, but the government is hoping to stay the course.
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Guttenberg considers resignation
Politics: 13 Jun 10
Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is thinking about resigning after the Chancellery failed to tell him about an investigation it instigated into evidence he presented over a fatal attack in Afghanistan.
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Gauck criticises government savings plans as not fair enough
Politics: 12 Jun 10
Joachim Gauck, the former East German civil rights activist and candidate for president, has stirred things up by criticising the government’s savings plans for not being socially fair.
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Voters favour Gauck for president
Politics: 9 Jun 10
Dark horse opposition candidate for president Joachim Gauck has more support among ordinary voters than frontrunner Christian Wulff, a poll published Wednesday found.
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Leftists name third presidential candidate
Politics: 8 Jun 10
The socialist Left Party has chosen one of its own MPs, former television journalist Lukrezia Jochimsen, to challenge Christian Wulff and Joachim Gauck for Germany’s presidency, media reported Tuesday.
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Candidate Gauck blasts 'timid' politicians
Politics: 7 Jun 10
Presidential contender Joachim Gauck launched a broadside Monday at the timid and short-sighted nature of politics and vowed to use the “power of words” to lift Germans up to match their potential.
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Support grows for Gauck presidency
Politics: 5 Jun 10
Resistance is growing to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s choice for Germany's president, Christian Wulff, as increasing numbers of politicians from the governing coalition state their preference for his opponent Joachim Gauck.
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German media roundup: Little excitement for Wulff presidency
Analysis & Opinion: 4 Jun 10
The announcement Thursday night that the coalition government was backing Lower Saxony premier Christian Wulff as Germany's new president got a mixed reaction. The Local gauges the mood of the nation's papers.
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Merkel nominates Wulff for president
Politics: 3 Jun 10
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right coalition on Thursday nominated Lower Saxony’s premier Christian Wulff to be Germany’s next president.
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Talk turns to Christian Wulff for president
Politics: 3 Jun 10
Lower Saxony premier Christian Wulff has replaced Labour Minister Ursula von der Leyen as the favourite to become Germany's new president after an abrupt shift in the feverish speculation about the post, media outlets reported Thursday.
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Merkel begins search for new president
Politics: 1 Jun 10
The leaders of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right coalition gathered in Berlin on Tuesday to discuss potential candidates to replace German President Horst Köhler after his surprise resignation.
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40,000 welcome Eurovision winner Lena in Hannover
Society: 31 May 10
A crowd of 40,000 welcomed home Lena Meyer-Landrut, Germany’s winner of the Eurovision song contest, in Hannover on Sunday afternoon, as her musical mentor Stefan Raab suggested she could defend her title next year.
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A Muslim Christian Democrat's crucifixion
Analysis & Opinion: 27 Apr 10
The Christian Democrats hoped making a Muslim woman a state minister would show how tolerant their party has become. But as ZEIT ONLINE's Christian Bangel writes, a debate over crucifixes in schools shows how much it hasn't.
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CDU chastens new Muslim minister for mooting school crucifix ban
Politics: 26 Apr 10
Just one day before taking her post, Lower Saxony’s new Social Minister Aygül Özkan has apologised to her fellow Christian Democrats for starting a heated debate by suggesting that crucifixes don’t belong in German public schools.
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Integration official rejects call for school crucifix ban
National: 26 Apr 10
Germany’s Integration Commissioner Maria Böhmer on Monday rejected calls by Lower Saxony’s new social minister for a ban on crucifixes in schools, saying they were part of the country’s national identity.
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Muslim minister-designate calls for state school crucifix ban
Politics: 24 Apr 10
The designated social minister in Lower Saxony – Germany’s first woman Muslim state minister – has called for crucifixes to be removed from state schools, saying they have as little place there as headscarves.
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Twitter entry provokes furious mayhem in Lower Saxon legislature
Science & Technology: 15 Dec 09
A Twitter entry by a Greens MP branding a conservative opponent a right-wing extremist caused mayhem in the Lower Saxony state parliament and forced an end to debate, daily Hannoversche Allgemeine reported on Tuesday.
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Lower Saxony gives in to Merkel's tax cuts
Politics: 8 Dec 09
Lower Saxony’s state premier Christian Wulff said Tuesday he would back Chancellor Merkel’s controversial fiscal package – a plan that many of her own conservatives have threatened to torpedo over major losses in state tax revenues.
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Germany bids farewell to footballer Robert Enke
Sport: 15 Nov 09
About 40,000 mourners gathered Sunday to bid farewell to the late footballer Robert Enke at the Hannover 96 stadium, where Enke’s coffin was laid on the centre of the pitch during tearful speeches and music performances.
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Lower Saxony thought to have huge untapped natural gas reserves
National: 2 Oct 09
US energy giant ExxonMobil wants to invest millions in the exploration of what it believes to be huge natural gas reserves lying untapped underneath the German state of Lower Saxony.
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Election TV debate last chance for sparks
Politics: 12 Sep 09
Chancellor Angela Merkel will square off with her rival for power, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on Sunday in a televised debate widely seen as his last chance to close a double-digit gap on the popular German leader.
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Qatar buys into VW
Business & Money: 29 Aug 09
The Gulf state of Qatar has taken a 6.78-percent stake in Europe's biggest carmaker Volkswagen as part of a plan to take over around 17 percent of the company, Volkswagen said on Friday.
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VW and Porsche: Germany’s unending automotive saga
Analysis & Opinion: 25 Jul 09
Volkswagen’s takeover of Porsche is a wreck of epic proportions for fans of the fancy sports carmaker. But Henrik Mortsiefer from Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel argues the saga might not be over just yet.
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Volkswagen takes the wheel at Porsche
Business & Money: 23 Jul 09
After years of industrial and familial battles, Europe's biggest car marker Volkswagen appeared close Thursday to taking over fellow German carmaker Porsche.
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Porsche reportedly set to dump Wiedeking
Business & Money: 17 Jul 09
Speculation mounted on Friday on whether embattled Porsche executive Wendelin Wiedeking would keep his job amid moves to merge the carmaker with Volkswagen.
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Luftwaffe hunts for new bombing range
National: 14 Jul 09
Military officials are scrambling to find another place for the Luftwaffe to get hands-on training at home after a series of lawsuits forced them away from the proposed “Bombodrom" bombing range.
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Parade in SS uniforms sparks outrage
Society: 19 Jun 09
Police are investigating whether a recent parade in Saxony-Anhalt broke the law by wearing Nazi-era SS and Wehrmacht uniforms. The incident has sparked outrage beyond the borders of the eastern German state.
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Yemen still searching for German hostages
National: 17 Jun 09
Following the deaths of three women in Yemen earlier this week, authorities Wednesday continued to search for the remaining six hostages, including five Germans.
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Neo-Nazi fined €1,200 for putting swastika flag on a coffin
National: 15 Jun 09
A prominent neo-Nazi who buried a comrade with a swastika flag was fined €1,200 Monday, after a Passau judge found him guilty of displaying unconstitutional symbols.
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Milk price row moves Merkel to meet farmers
National: 22 May 09
After refusing to speak to hunger-striking milk-maids camped out outside her office last week, Chancellor Angela Merkel has decided to address the issue of low milk prices after all.
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Attack sparks fear of rising neo-Nazi violence
National: 17 Feb 09
A vicious attack at a motorway rest stop after a neo-Nazi march last weekend has sparked alarm across Germany. As David Wroe reports, some believe the far-right scene is undergoing a dangerous transformation.
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Merkel's coalition grapples with stimulus plan as elections loom
Politics: 12 Jan 09
As Germany's economy slides deeper into recession, Chancellor Angela Merkel's fractious government aims Monday to put party politics aside in a bid to haul the country out of the slump.
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Merkel pressured by party on climate change measures
National: 23 Nov 08
Top Christian Democrats in the Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony state governments are pressuring Chancellor Angela Merkel to help relax European carbon dioxide reduction goals.
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Jewish leaders slam politician for 'pogrom' comment
National: 8 Nov 08
Jewish leaders in Germany have castigated a senior politician from Chancellor Merkel's party for using the words "pogrom atmosphere" to describe the hostility towards well-paid business executives in the country.
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Neo-Nazi exhumed to find forbidden swastika flag
National: 31 Jul 08
German officials in Passau have exhumed the corpse of a former Nazi Waffen-SS soldier in order to confiscate a forbidden Third Reich era flag placed over his coffin during his burial last weekend.
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EU launches legal action against Germany over VW law
Business & Money: 5 Jun 08
The European Commission on Thursday ratcheted up pressure on Germany by taking fresh legal action over a disputed law shielding Europe's biggest car maker Volkswagen from takeovers.
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Deutsche Telekom to curb staff data access after spying scandal
National: 4 Jun 08
The head of Deutsche Telekom said Wednesday the company will curb employee access to client data, as he tried to contain a scandal sparked by revelations that Europe's biggest telephone company had spied on journalists.
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Osnabrück to host dialogue with Muslims: report
Society: 20 May 08
A small city in the German state of Lower Saxony where Christians negotiated to end a religious war in the 1600s should be a centre for Christian-Islamic dialogue today, the state premier said on Tuesday.
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VW shareholders to tangle over VW Law
Business & Money: 22 Apr 08
Fireworks are expected Tuesday when the Porsche family, IG Metall trade union and political leaders discuss the future of iconic German carmaker Volkswagen, writes AFP's Lenaig Bredoux.
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German state wants to keep minority blocking stake in VW
Business & Money: 17 Apr 08
The German state of Lower Saxony wants to preserve a minority blocking stake in Volkswagen to ensure its stability, regional premier Christian Wulff said on Thursday.
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Hamburg sets sights on new 'black-green' alliance
National: 6 Mar 08
The conservative Christian Democrats and the environmentalist Greens in Hamburg have signaled they will enter negotiations to form Germany's first ever coalition between the parties.
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