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Election year confuses German company rescues

Reuters US Online Report World News 210 days ago

BERLIN (Reuters) - As Germany heads to an election with its banks unwilling to risk big loans, companies and politicians are fumbling toward a new political order. Revolving around the rules governing a 115-billion euro ($160 billion) government fund to help troubled ...

Germany confirms three cases of swine flu

AFP Global Edition 287 days ago

Three cases of swine flu have now been confirmed in Germany, the latest European country to be hit by the increasingly global outbreak, authorities said on Wednesday. The Robert Koch Institute, responsible for disease control and prevention, said a 22-year-old woman was ...

Christian Socialists lose long-term Bavaria monopoly

guardian.co.uk 287 days ago

The conservative Christian Social Union party, which ruled the German state of Bavaria with an absolute majority for almost half a century, saw its political monopoly come to a dramatic end at the weekend when it performed disastrously in regional elections. The ...

Merkel disappointed at Bavarian losses

AP News 287 days ago

Germany's Merkel disappointed at ominous losses for Bavarian ally Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that her governing conservatives must focus on the economy and education in the wake of a dramatic loss for her allies in Bavaria that could bode ill for ...

Merkel's battered conservatives mull Bavarian disaster

AFP Global Edition 287 days ago

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives licked their wounds Monday after historic losses in a Bavarian state election, as German voters continue to abandon major parties a year ahead of the national poll. Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU), sister party to Merkel's Christian Democrats, ...

Merkel's conservatives hammered in Bavaria vote: early results

AFP Global Edition 287 days ago

The Bavarian sister party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives suffered a drubbing Sunday in a state election, exit polls showed, losing an absolute majority held since the 1960s. A year before Merkel stands for re-election, the Christian Social Union (CSU) saw ...

Merkel's conservatives hammered in Bavaria vote: exit polls

AFP Global Edition 287 days ago

The Bavarian sister party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives suffered a drubbing in a state election Sunday, exit polls showed, losing an absolute majority held since the 1960s. A year before Merkel stands for re-election, the Christian Social Union (CSU) saw ...

Bavaria votes in crunch state election

AFP Global Edition 287 days ago

Bavarians vote in state elections Sunday that could see the conservative CSU party lose its decades-long dominance and spell trouble for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's 2009 re-election hopes. Ever since the 1960s Bavaria has been the CSU party and the CSU has ...

Bavarian backs off disputed drunk-driving comments

AP News 288 days ago

Bavarian governor backs off assertion that some can drive after 2 liters of beer Bavaria's governor on Wednesday backed off an assertion that some people can drive safely after downing 2 liters (4.2 pints) of beer, a comment that drew anger and ...

Save the last waltz

Spectator, The London 288 days ago

Regensburg The mighty Danube begins in the park of the Furstenberg Palace and flows eastward for a distance of 2,000 miles across ten countries on to the Black Sea. Last weekend, Prince and Princess Heinrich von Furstenberg, the titular heads of the ...

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