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…
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu cancelled his planned trip to Berlin today ostensibly after developing a cold. This comes during a very cold time, a veritable melt-down in the relations between EU and Israel.
Since it heard about it, Israeli officialdom has “gone nuclear” in response to a leaked EU draft document [prepared by Sweden ] that states that under a future peace agreement the capital [...] Continue Reading…
Military delegations from European countries which have ordered the A400 military transport plane, a replacement for the C-130 Hercules, will meet in Berlin Dec. 2 to discuss cost overruns and delays.
The A400M project has incurred billions of Euros in cost overruns and development problems that have delayed delivery by more than three years. France, Germany, Britain, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and Turkey have [...] Continue Reading…
Germany – for what almost seems like the first time – has today publicly criticised Israeli plans to build settlements in the occupied West Bank. This a week before both countries’ leaders will meet in Berlin.
The modern Germany Federal Republic has a special bond with Israel and has always been extra careful to avoid any criticism of the country. The legacy of [...] Continue Reading…
26-XI-2009
The new German defence minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, has told the Bundestag, the Parliament today, that General W. Schneiderhan, along with a senior official in the Ministry of Defence, Peter Wichert, were resigning with immediate effect following German media reports which claimed that important information regarding civilian casualties had deliberately been withheld from both the German public and state prosecutors.
Their resignations have [...] Continue Reading…
The fall of the Berlin Wall was a positive event, but not all the hopes that arose after it came down were realized, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has told German media.
“The Berlin Wall was always a symbol of the division of Europe,” he said. “Its fall was seen as a continuation of the path to European unity.”
“The main thing is that the [...] Continue Reading…
Deutsche Bahn – known in Germany simply as Die Bahn or DB – the state-owned German national rail company is preparing itself for competition with its largest European rival the also French state-owned counterpart, the SNCF.
This comes after recent reports, from amongst others, Die Welt newspaper, that SNCF was intending to compete directly with DB on several city-pairs routes within Germany itself. [...] Continue Reading…
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