I have no idea how the Furkan market got its Furkan name but it sure is furkan funny!
I am sure the owners have no idea how extremely funny it can sound in English.
There is also a German village with the similar name –Fürken whose location is in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, near Köln.
The “F-word” is an English word that is almost universally considered vulgar [...] Continue Reading…
The former home country of megalomania and kitsch has undergone a transition over the recent years that is a bit of a jaw-dropping affair, to say the least. The Krauts have gone from a nation of grumpy white-socked misanthropes with a world-domineering streak and ‘Lebensraum’-claiming towels to a people of cool and charisma.
Germany has turned into the promised land. How did that [...] Continue Reading…
Club de Visionäre: Metropoliton, Hip and Chilling in Berlin…
Typically when you think of a club in Berlin, an image of a mother duck nestling her ducklings along is NOT what flashes through your head. Club der Visionäre is one of the most peaceful, laid back spots in Berlin despite being one of the ‘In Clubs’ of the moment.
Sitting on a dock on [...] Continue Reading…
After having held the position for nearly 20 years, Joachim Hunold CEO of Air Berlin, the 3rd largest low-cost carrier in Europe, will step aside amid growing losses.
Air Berlin has since announced that it, along with other German carriers, was suffering from a new German air travel tax along with higher fuel costs and found these for competitive reasons difficult to [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin 18 –12 –2009
Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany’s finance minister, has warned of a severe fiscal crackdown after the immediate effects of the economic crisis are over, and has said that combating a budget deficit in these times could not be done using old conventional means.
Experts have been sharply critical of the planned tax cut legislation by Germany’s coalition government of conservative CDU and [...] Continue Reading…
To stop it falling into insolvency, the WestLB, based in Dusseldorf, will be the first German bank to use federal government aid.
A “Landesbank” is a German bank controlled by the regional state governments. The WestLB Bank is owned by the state government of North Rhine Westphalia and that state’s non-profit public savings banks.
It had at one time visions to become an international [...] Continue Reading…
British troops would be pulled from Germany – nearly 70 years after the end of WWII – if the Conservatives win the next British election according to their shadow Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox. He said it was no longer necessary to maintain the presence of more than 20,000 military personnel and ending the commitment would free up forces to carry out [...] Continue Reading…
The state court in Duisburg said prosecutors there have on Tuesday charged a 90-year-old former SS soldier with for the murder of 58 Jewish forced labourers near the town of Deutsch-Schuetzen in Austria on the last days of World War II.
The remains of the victims of the Deutsch Schuetzen massacre were found in 1995 in a mass grave by the Austrian Jewish [...] Continue Reading…
Airbus Military – the military side of EADS- on Thursday successfully ran all 4 engines of its new A400M military transporter plane’s engines and thus operated the aircraft completely autonomously for the first time. This is a good sign for an eventual maiden flight in December this year.
The A400M airlifter – the European successor to the ubiquitous Hercules C-130- has been delayed [...] Continue Reading…
The German Justice Minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, has let it be known that Berlin will attempt to stop a proposed EU bank information transfer to the US. Similar sentiment has been expressed by the Austrian interior minister Maria Fekter, who said she would also oppose the deal. Because of privacy concerns France and Finland are also opposing the proposed agreement.
The German minister is [...] Continue Reading…
In Hannover today circa 35,000 people took part in a solemn procession to pay their last respects to Robert Enke, goalie of football club Hannover-96 who committed suicide earlier this week.
It says a lot about Germany in the civilized and dignified way they have dealt with this tragedy. No phony letters or any opportunistic interventions from politicians trying to make cheap political [...] Continue Reading…
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