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February 21, 2019

Merkel voices ‘full solidarity’ with Juncker in Orban row

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday voiced full backing for European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker in a widening row with Hungary’s hardline Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Separately, Manfred Weber, the leading candidate of the European Parliament’s dominant centre-right bloc EPP,…
February 21, 2019

Why Germany is vulnerable to US car tariffs

After years tangled in the “dieselgate” emissions cheating scandal, German carmakers could suffer huge losses if the United States carries out its threat to levy tariffs on European car imports. – Mammoth exports – Giants Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes-Benz parent…
February 21, 2019

German film-maker beaten in Rohingya camp in Bangladesh

A German film-maker and his assistant visiting a refugee camp in Bangladesh Thursday were beaten by Rohingya Muslims who suspected they could be human traffickers, police said. The refugees became wary after three Germans and their Bangladeshi assistant started giving…
February 21, 2019

Deutsche Telekom sticks to forecasts as profits ebb

Network operator Deutsche Telekom was undeterred Thursday from its optimism for 2019, even as it reported falling profits last year and looked ahead to massive investments in 5G networks and a hoped-for merger with Sprint in the US. Net profit…
February 21, 2019

Gunmaker H&K convicted for illegal arms exports to Mexico

A German court Thursday fined gunmaker Heckler & Koch 3.7 million euros ($4.2 million) and gave suspended jail terms to two of its ex-employees for illegally exporting thousands of rifles to violence-torn Mexican states. A former worker was given a…
February 20, 2019

Ongoing Nazi pension payments cause uproar in Belgium

Belgian lawmakers have demanded a halt to German pension payments that a handful of residents still receive for their collaboration with the World War II Nazi occupation. The national government must “demand that the German federal government end the pension…
February 20, 2019

Germany firm on Saudi arms ban despite British warning

Germany said Wednesday it would hold firm on its decision to halt weapons exports to Saudi Arabia, shrugging off British warnings that the embargo could hurt European credibility and efforts to bring peace in Yemen. “The stance of the government…
February 20, 2019

Man sets himself on fire in Germany pro-PKK protest

A man was seriously injured after setting himself on fire in Germany Wednesday as a protest against Turkey’s detention of militant Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, police said. “The 43-year-old doused himself with a liquid and then set himself on fire”…
February 20, 2019

Daimler faces mega fine in diesel probe

Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler could be set for a massive fine in Germany over diesel trickery, as prosecutors confirmed Wednesday they had opened a probe similar to one that cost Volkswagen one billion euros ($1.1 billion). “We opened a fine…

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