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Home championship dream dashed for Nowitzki

Sport: 16 Dec 11
Germany and three other European countries have pulled their joint application to host the 2015 European basketball championships, citing “irreconcilable differences” with international basketball federation FIBA. READ »

Deadly E. coli found in Spanish cucumbers

National: 26 May 11
Cucumbers from Spain have been identified as a source of the deadly E. coli outbreak gripping Germany, health officials announced Thursday. READ »

Public sector wage dispute ends

Business & Money: 11 Mar 11
The five-week wage dispute between public employees and Germany’s state employers ended late on Thursday evening with an agreement to increase salaries for some 600,000 workers. READ »

Public servants push for 7 percent wage hike

Business & Money: 26 Oct 10
Public servants are pushing for a wage rise of at least 7 percent, setting the stage for a showdown with German state governments that pits a booming economy against ballooning state debt. READ »

Bavarian mass transit drivers strike

National: 24 Sep 10
Mass transit workers in the Bavarian cities of Munich, Nuremberg and Augsburg went on strike early Friday morning in an ongoing wage dispute. Munich will suffer the most, with thousands of tourists in town for Oktoberfest. READ »

What's on in Germany: July 22 - 28

Lifestyle: 23 Jul 10
This Week's Highlights: "Porgy and Bess" in Berlin, open air concerts in Frankfurt, and a royal joust just outside Munich. READ »

Brewer banishes Bud to crown Hasseröder official World Cup beer

Society: 23 Jun 10
German football fans nearly rioted during the last World Cup after FIFA and its beverage sponsors tried to force Budweiser on them. Ben Knight reports on how the popular East German brew Hasseröder became this year’s official beer. READ »

Public workers threaten strikes as wage negotiations begin

National: 13 Jan 10
The first round of wage negotiations for some two million public sector employees began on Wednesday in Potsdam, as their union Verdi said it would not rule out strikes to pressure state and federal employers. READ »

Long wage dispute with day care workers ends

National: 27 Jul 09
The long wage dispute between 220,000 public day care workers and state employers ended with an agreement in Frankfurt on Monday. READ »

Home brewers could save Germany's sacred beer tradition

Society: 23 Apr 09
The declining variety of German beers is encouraging many people to make their own at home, online brewing retailer Brauen.de reported in honour of Beer Day on Thursday. READ »

Recession making German beer cheaper

Business & Money: 15 Apr 09
German beer brewers will likely lower their prices to maintain beer sales during the recession, President of the DBB German brewer’s association told daily Berliner Zeitung on Wednesday. READ »

Thousands of workers strike in four states

Business & Money: 27 Feb 09
Public workers in four of Germany’s states went on the latest in a series of warning strikes on Friday, hoping to put pressure on employers in an ongoing wage dispute. READ »

More public workers strike as wage dispute wears on with states

Business & Money: 9 Feb 09
Public workers staged limited strikes on Monday in the states of Schleswig-Holstein and Baden-Württemberg as a long-running wage dispute between public workers and states continues. READ »

Union warns of strikes in public sector

Business & Money: 30 Dec 08
Public sector strikes could hit Germany in 2009 if wage talks next month on behalf of 800,000 workers fail to produce a satisfactory outcome, the head one of the main trade unions warned on Tuesday. READ »

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Germany is battling the increasingly widespread phenomenon of "burnout" which is supposedly costing its economy billions of euros each year.
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The economy in shambles, angry street protests and the government on the brink after passing unpopular reforms. But this is not Greece in 2012 – it was Germany a decade ago. Marc Young looks back to see an agenda for the future.
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Germany’s public transportation largely operates on the honour system, which makes fare dodging easy. You can have your say on how Germany should deal with the problem.
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Macho German football legend Rudi Assauer says he has Alzheimer’s Disease, an admission one expert told The Local could help stoke discussion of an illness often considered taboo.
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A 64-year-old tub of American lard has been deemed fit for human consumption by food safety authorities in the eastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
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As Hamburg’s legendary Reeperbahn strip gentrifies, Stephen Lowman reports how the city’s “sinful mile” is changing.
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