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Guttenberg accused of plagiarizing PhD thesis

Politics: 16 Feb 11
German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg on Wednesday faced accusations he plagiarized parts of his doctoral thesis. But the minister said he had nothing to worry about. READ »

Taxman recovers €1.6 bln from Alpine accounts

Business & Money: 20 Dec 10
German tax authorities have reportedly recovered €1.6 billion this year from citizens who had stashed their cash in secret accounts in Liechtenstein and Switzerland. READ »

Liechtenstein banks end tax evasion probe with €50 million payout

Business & Money: 16 Dec 10
Banks in Liechtenstein ended one of the largest tax evasion probes in Germany history by paying a record settlement of €50 million, a media report said Thursday. READ »

New CD on German tax dodgers surfaces

Business & Money: 22 Jul 10
Another CD packed with evidence of German tax evasion on money totalling €500 million has been spirited out of a bank in Liechtenstein and is being offered to investigators, media reported Thursday. READ »

Credit Suisse raided in tax fraud probe

Business & Money: 14 Jul 10
German prosecutors on Wednesday raided 13 branches of the Swiss bank Credit Suisse in connection with an investigation into widespread tax evasion. READ »

Liechtenstein digs in heels against stolen bank data

Business & Money: 14 Apr 10
The small tax haven of Liechtenstein is preparing to backpedal on an agreement with Germany to crack down on tax dodgers, and now plans to give no help if investigations are based on stolen data, a report said Wednesday. READ »

Taxman rakes in hundreds of millions thanks to stolen bank data

National: 7 Apr 10
Germany is still raking in hundreds of millions of euros from tax dodgers thanks to stolen Liechtenstein bank information purchased in 2008, just as new Swiss data is scaring droves of offenders to turn themselves in. READ »

Credit Suisse clients and staff face tax probe

National: 19 Mar 10
German prosecutors said Friday they were investigating around 1,100 customers and staff of Swiss bank Credit Suisse's local operations on suspicion of hiding money from German tax authorities. READ »

North Rhine-Westphalia buys info on tax cheats

National: 27 Feb 10
Germany's most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia has purchased stolen information on 1,500 suspected German tax cheats holding bank accounts in Switzerland, a regional government spokesman said on Saturday. READ »

Swiss MP threatens fire with fire over bank data

Politics: 13 Feb 10
A Swiss member of parliament alleged Saturday that top German public officials had secret bank accounts in Switzerland and threatened to out them if Germany bought stolen data on tax dodgers. READ »

Liechtenstein bank owes tax dodger damages, court rules

National: 8 Feb 10
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 »

Berlin to buy stolen Swiss tax dodger data

National: 2 Feb 10
Germany said Tuesday it would pay for data on some 1,500 suspected tax dodgers with funds stashed in Swiss accounts, waving aside concerns that the allegedly stolen material would not stand up in court. READ »

Social parasites with Swiss bank accounts

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Feb 10
The German government should have no qualms about buying stolen Swiss information on rich tax dodgers, argues Ludwig Greven from Zeit Online. READ »

Germany clashes with Switzerland over tax info

Business & Money: 1 Feb 10
Germany and Switzerland clashed openly on Monday over the Alpine state's cherished banking secrecy after Berlin said it might buy the names of suspected tax-dodgers from a whistle-blower. READ »

EU court rules German custody laws discriminate against fathers

National: 3 Dec 09
German child custody laws discriminate against single fathers and should be changed, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday. READ »

National team beats Azerbaijan in World Cup qualifier

Sport: 13 Aug 09
Germany opened a four-point gap at the top of their World Cup qualifying group after goals by Bastian Schweinsteiger and Miroslav Klose sealed Germany's 2-0 win in Azerbaijan on Wednesday. READ »

Steinbrück compares Switzerland to Burkina Faso in tax row

Business & Money: 5 May 09
German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück made a new jibe on Tuesday against Switzerland and other European finance centres, likening them to the poor African nation of Burkina Faso, in a row over tax havens. READ »

Ballack says Germany needs to dominate Liechtenstein

Sport: 27 Mar 09
Germany captain Michael Ballack wants a solid win on Saturday when his side tackle European minnows Liechtenstein in a World Cup qualifier following back-to-back home defeats. READ »

DFB demands Ballack step up national team leadership

Sport: 25 Mar 09
Captain Michael Ballack must lead the German national team by example as the squad looks to bounce back from home defeats in their last two games, German Football Federation boss Theo Zwanziger said Wednesday. READ »

Germany embarrassed in Norway friendly

Sport: 12 Feb 09
Norway coach Egil Olsen said Germany's recent performances had given him enough clues to mastermind Wednesday night's shock defeat as die Mannschaft were humbled 1-0 in a Düsseldorf friendly. READ »

Germany warms up for first friendly of the year with Norway

Sport: 10 Feb 09
After his public spat with coach Joachim Löw last October, Germany captain Michael Ballack will win his 90th cap in Wednesday's friendly against Norway with the issue forgiven - but clearly not forgotten. READ »

Ballack and Frings recalled to face Norway

Sport: 5 Feb 09
Chelsea star Michael Ballack and Bremen's Torsten Frings have both been recalled to the Germany squad to face Norway in a friendly next Wednesday, but there is no place for striker Lukas Podolski. READ »

Ex Deutsche Post boss Zumwinkel avoids jail

National: 26 Jan 09
Klaus Zumwinkel, the former head of German logistics giant Deutsche Post, received a suspended jail sentence of two years on Monday and was fined €1 million ($1.3 million) for tax evasion. READ »

Ex-Deutsche Post boss admits to tax evasion

National: 22 Jan 09
The ex-head of Germany's Deutsche Post admitted tax evasion on Thursday in a scandal that fuelled public anger about "fat-cat" excesses and won tiny Liechtenstein worldwide opprobrium. READ »

Former Deutsche Post chief indicted in tax scandal

Business & Money: 7 Nov 08
German prosecutors said on Friday they had charged the former head of Deutsche Post with tax evasion as part of a huge scandal involving Liechtenstein which blew up in February. READ »

Germany and France lead in writing new tax haven blacklist

Business & Money: 21 Oct 08
Seventeen countries led by France and Germany decided Tuesday to draw up a new blacklist of tax havens that could include Switzerland, in a first step toward rewriting the rules of global finance. READ »

Ballack injury creates doubts for qualifier with Wales

Sport: 15 Oct 08
Germany captain Michael Ballack sat out training again on Tuesday as doubts grow whether the Chelsea star will be fit for his country in their World Cup qualifier against Wales on Wednesday. READ »

Ballack seals German win over Russia

Sport: 11 Oct 08
Chelsea midfielder Michael Ballack and Bayern Munich striker Lukas Podolski fired first-half goals to give Germany a 2-1 win over hard-working Russia in Saturday's World Cup qualifier in Dortmund. READ »

Ballack says harmony reigns ahead of Russia match

Sport: 11 Oct 08
Germany captain Michael Ballack has insisted there is no problem between him and the rest of the German squad ahead of Saturday’s World Cup qualifier against Russia, after reports claimed he was ostracised following his row with team manager Oliver Bierhoff. READ »

Ballack and Frings back for Russia, Wales clashes

Sport: 4 Oct 08
Captain Michael Ballack and veteran midfielder Torsten Frings are back in Germany coach Joachim Löw's squad named for the football World Cup qualifiers against Russia and Wales. READ »

Liechtenstein prince calls Germany 'Fourth Reich'

National: 11 Sep 08
The Prince of Liechtenstein, Hans-Adam II, has labelled Germany “the Fourth Reich” amid a dispute with Berlin over efforts to hinder tax evasion in the tiny Alpine statelet. READ »

Klose hat-trick snatches draw from Finland

Sport: 11 Sep 08
Veteran striker Miroslav Klose got Germany out of jail with a hat-trick to seal a late 3-3 draw against Finland in Wednesday night's World Cup 2010 qualifier. READ »

Podolksi plans to shoot Germany to victory over Finland

Sport: 10 Sep 08
Hot-shot striker Lukas Podolski aims to continue his purple patch against Finland on Wednesday as Germany look to win their second straight World Cup 2010 qualifier. READ »

Germany victorious on pitch and TV

Sport: 7 Sep 08
Germany's 6-0 victory over Liechtenstein in the first World Cup 2010 qualifying match on Saturday night was the most-watched television programme of the night, attracting nearly 30 percent of people watching the box. READ »

Löw confident Liechtenstein will fall to Germany

Sport: 6 Sep 08
Coach Joachim Löw says Germany will win both their opening games on the road to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa as they begin their campaign at minnows Liechtenstein on Saturday. READ »

SPD mulling measures against Liechtenstein and Swiss banks

Business & Money: 6 Aug 08
Germany’s Social Democrats are considering pushing for sanctions against banks from Liechtenstein and Switzerland to make them more cooperative in the fight against tax evasion. READ »

Rostock trial probing alleged blackmail of Liechtenstein bank

Business & Money: 2 Aug 08
A bank in the tiny Alpine principality of Liechtenstein, which has been rocked since February by a major tax evasion scandal, was allegedly blackmailed into paying €9 million. READ »

Tycoon gets suspended sentence in Liechtenstein tax trial

Business & Money: 18 Jul 08
A 66-year-old real estate tycoon was handed a two-year suspended prison sentence Friday in the first case brought to justice in Germany in connection with a major Liechtenstein tax evasion scandal. READ »

Tax men raid more millionaire homes

Business & Money: 22 Jun 08
New raids have been carried out in Germany in the Liechtenstein tax evasion scandal, weekly news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Sunday. READ »

Agency sets up to help report tax evasion in Germany

National: 14 Jun 08
After the German government paid more than €50 million for details of tax evaders in Liechtenstein, one enterprising businessman has scaled down the principle and is offering to process a report to the taxman – for a share of the reward naturally. READ »

Glass ceiling means diplomacy is still a man’s world

Lifestyle: 4 Jun 08
Barely a fifth of diplomats in Berlin are women – and things are barely better elsewhere. The Local looks at the glass ceiling in the world’s foreign ministries. READ »

EU official slams 'irresponsible' executive pay

Politics: 23 May 08
The EU’s top economic official slammed salaries earned by European executives in the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Friday, joining those who have called for action on the socially sensitive issue. READ »

Fresh raids planned on German tax dodgers: report

National: 25 Apr 08
German tax investigators are planning new raids in two weeks on people suspected of dodging taxes by hiding their money in Liechtenstein, according to a report on Friday from the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. READ »

Germany considering tax fraud probe of Swiss bank UBS

Business & Money: 31 Mar 08
German justice officials are weighing a probe of Swiss bank UBS following a television report that allegedly showed staff ready to assist Germans who sought to commit tax fraud. READ »

Liechtenstein retracts all art loans to Germany

Society: 12 Mar 08
Liechtenstein’s royal household has said it will suspend loans of art works from its collection to Germany, marking a new low in ties between the two countries embroiled in a tax scandal. READ »

Poorest Germans despair as middle class shrinks further

Business & Money: 10 Mar 08
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Anne Padieu reports on one of Germany's poorest regions, Prenzlau. READ »

German tax scandal informer says life in danger

National: 9 Mar 08
An informant who provided German authorities with data from a Liechtenstein bank that sparked a massive tax fraud probe has said his life is threatened, according to reports in two news magazines. READ »

Hundreds of German flights cancelled amid strike

National: 5 Mar 08
Strikes brought transport chaos to Germany on Wednesday as airport workers joined labour protests by other public sector workers, causing hundreds of flight cancellations and long delays around the country. READ »

Study finds German middle class shrinking

Business & Money: 4 Mar 08
A new study shows that the wealth gap in Germany is widening as the middle class shrinks rapidly. READ »

Liechtenstein PM seeks deal over tax row

National: 28 Feb 08
The Prime Minister of the tiny Alpine nation vows to work toward a 'reasonable compromise' with countries including Germany over tax transparency. READ »

Monaco joins Germany to fight tax evasion

Business & Money: 27 Feb 08
Officials from Monaco assured German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday that they would step up their efforts to combat international tax evasion. READ »

Conservatives hold Hamburg despite leftward lurch

Politics: 24 Feb 08
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) remained the strongest party in Hamburg state elections on Sunday, but the conservatives suffered losses as voters swung to the left. READ »

Amnesty for Berlin tax dodgers

Society: 20 Feb 08
Berliners who have evaded tax can escape punishment - but only if they own up before being found out. READ »

Deutsche Post CEO’s home and office raided

Business & Money: 14 Feb 08
One of Germany's longest serving and most powerful CEOs under investigation for evading taxes. READ »

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