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- Bulgaria hopes to secure F1 race
Bulgaria is hoping to strike a deal that would allow the Balkan country to host a Formula One grand prix from 2011. Representatives of the race organizing committee said they have received a formal invitation to the German Grand Prix on July 12 at the
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In an advanced release of a guest article to run in Sundays Taggespiegel newspaper, Merkel wrote that she would advocate bringing public expenditure as quickly as possible back onto a sustainable path after the end of the crisis. This is an important
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- GM Europe head says to sell Opel to Magna soon: report
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - General Motors Europe President Carl-Peter Forster expects to sell German unit Opel to Canadian auto parts supplier Magna soon, he told a German newspaper. 'I am quite confident after a top-level meeting of GM and Magna, where broad
- For 5 days, Berlin is international hub of fashion (Feature)
Berlin - At the show of fashion legend Boss, the usual glitz and glamour were replaced by barbecued sausages against an industrial backdrop, while style icon Rene Lezard hosted a 'home-made' breakfast in a Berlin neighbourhood on Friday. Through a series
- RA President farewells the Ambassador of Germany in Armenia
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan met with the ambassador of Germany to Armenia Mrs. Andrea Victorine in Yerevan related to completion of her diplomatic mission in the country. During the meeting Serzh Sargsyan thanked the
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As Western Europes richest and most populous nation, Germany remains a key member of the continents economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed the country in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945. With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC and NATO, while the communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then Germany has expended considerable funds to bring eastern productivity and wages up to western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries formed a common European currency, the euro.
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AFP - The head of GM Europe has said he hopes German carmaker Opel will be bought by Magna by mid-July adding that the Canadian firm has a "considerable lead" on other possible buyers, a report said Saturday.
Reuters - Three more bidders are interested in taking a stake in German sports car maker Porsche, rivaling investment plans by Qatar, German magazine Focus reported on Saturday.
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