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Eurozone jobless figure reported at record high
Eurozone’s unemployment figure continues to linger as around 16 million Euro currency users are still out of work, official data shows.
Unemployment across the 16 countries which share the Euro stuck at a record 10 percent in May for the third month running, European Union data showed on Friday.
The area’s unemployment rate has remained at its highest level since the creation of Euro in...
German arrested for Hitler ringtone
* Ringtone ended with Sieg Heil
* Phone also had picture of Hitler
* Penalty could be three years’ jail
A MAN who had a speech by Adolf Hitler as his ringtone could face up to three years in jail.
Police seized the 54-year-old’s phone at Harburg station, near the northern city of Hamburg, after fellow train passengers, shocked by the sound of Hitler screaming, alerted police.
“It...
German Police Officers Ambushed into Death Traps by Immigrants
A mob of 30 thugs attacked on Saturday is at the S-Bahnhof Neuwiedenthal the crews of three patrol cars.
A 46-year-old suffered fatal skull fractures Commissioner. An 44-year-old chief master is broken nose, three more police officers are injured by stones and blows. Apparently they had previously targeted the policemen lured into the trap.
At 21.30 clock gets the crew of ‘Peter 47 / 2’...
Germany slams Israel for denying ministers entry into Gaza
German Development Minister Dirk Niebel
Germany on Sunday slammed Israel for preventing Development Minister Dirk Niebel from entering the Gaza Strip to meet with Palestinian refugees during his current visit to the region.
“I believe that Israel has a need for transparency to render credible the idea that it is changing its political strategy towards Gaza, and my visit would have created that...
German legislator: Stop thriving Holocaust industry
Holger Apfel, leader of the National Democratic Party (NPD) in the state of Saxony, Germany
The leader of the National Democratic Party (NPD) of Germany in Saxony has urged the termination of all ties with Israel and the imposition of economic sanctions on the regime.
“Stop cooperation with the… Jewish scoundrels, don’t give in to the thriving Holocaust industry,” Holger Apfel said...
Merkel seeks bank levy to make those who caused Global crisis pay
The European Union should push world powers to bring in a global levy on banks to “make those who caused the crisis pay,”Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday.
EU leaders are keen not to repeat the experience of the last two years, when they had to bail out banks with public funds to prevent the financial crisis from worsening. The intervention left them with huge deficits,...
Germany: 'Immigrants are making our country dumber'
Thilo Sarrazin warned 'less educated' immigrants are making Germany 'dumber'
A controversial board member of Bundesbank has come under fire for claiming immigrants are making Germany ‘dumber in a simple way’.
Thilo Sarrazin told a business group in Frankfurt that people arriving in the country from Turkey, the Middle East and Africa are less educated than those from other nations.
The...
Europe's outlook darkens as Germany, UK make cuts
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks at the Open University in Milton Keynes, England Monday, June, 7, 2010. Cameron said the pain of cutting Britain's national deficit will be worse than previously feared and will affect everyone in the country. Laying out the reasons for squeezing spending, Cameron said the nation cannot avoid cutting a deficit which rose to 156 billion pounds ($225...
German President Resigns After Saying Afghan War Is About Protecting Trade Routes
German President Horst Köhler announced his resignation today, putting a surprising end to his six year term in office following growing uproar over his comments defending the war of Afghanistan.
In a weekend radio interview, Köhler insisted that the war was necessary to protect German economic interests in the region, including trade routes.
Köhler subsequently lashed out at domestic criticism...
Germany: Emigration Up, Birth Rate Down
German pensioners: The country's population is aging.
Germany is already facing a demographic nightmare as birth rates fall despite a slew of family-friendly policies. Now, new statistics show that more people are leaving the country than immigrating — adding to concerns about the country’s shrinking population.
Germans fretting about the country’s looming demographic problems...
Germany considers criminal charges against Google over Wi-Fi data collection
Google Spying on People
German prosecutors have begun a criminal probe into whether Google broke any laws when its mobile units collected private Wi-Fi data while recording images for Google Street View.
The Hamburg Prosecutor’s Office said it is at an early stage of investigation, and is at least two weeks away from deciding if criminal charges will be pursued.
German authorities have demanded...
Merkel Warns of Europe's Collapse
German Chancellor Angela Merkel: "greatest test for Europe since the collapse of communism"
In a dramatic appeal for Europeans to come together to address the common currency crisis, Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Thursday that if the euro collapses, so will the idea of European unity. She also described the current euro crisis as Europe’s greatest test since the collapse of communism.
During...
'We are once again the schmucks of Europe!' German media's verdict as anger at Greek bailout swells
A German stockbroker in Frankfurt puts a hand to his head as he watches the computer screens today. The German stock market slipped today amid German anger and fears over the European bailout
German anger at the 750billion Euro Greek bailout is swelling as world markets slid after initial excitement at the bailout fizzled.
The headline on the front page of Germany’s biggest newspaper, Bild, summed...
Germany's MPs rage at Merkel over €110 Billion bailout plan for Greece
Chancellor Angela Merkel was heckled in the German parliament yesterday as she urged MPs to back the country’s €22.4 billion bailout for Greece, insisting that the “future of Europe” rested on the success of the rescue package.
Ms Merkel’s cabinet gave the go-ahead for a German contribution to the €110 billion joint European Union and International Monetary Fund bailout...
Rare disorder erases all social anxiety
Williams syndrome makes kids ‘hypersocial,’ researchers say.
Never has a human population been found that has no racial stereotypes. Not in other cultures or far-flung countries. Nor among tiny tots or people with various psychological conditions.
Until now.
Children with Williams syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that makes them lack normal social anxiety, have no racial biases. They...