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Germany Wants to Fight Corona Outbreaks With Targeted Lockdowns

16Jul

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Europe, Germany, News

Germany Wants to Fight Corona Outbreaks With Targeted Lockdowns

Outbreaks of the coronavirus must combat Germany with small, targeted lockdowns. The health ministers of the federal states and the federal minister have agreed that according to the documents of their consultation on Thursday morning. Ministers recommend that the heads of state governments introduce small local restrictions in the event of an outbreak. They cite a local curfew as an "appropriate way" to contain an epidemic. "It is not possible to close entire neighbourhoods in, for example, Hamburg or Berlin," the documents state. "Decisions must be taken flexibly by the authorities on the spot." A German court broke the lockdown in the Gütersloh region early last week after a corona outbreak in a slaughterhouse. The judges found that exceptional lockdown for the tens of thou...

Relatively Few Additional Deaths From Corona in Germany

15May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Europe, Germany, News

Relatively Few Additional Deaths From Corona in Germany

The number of additional deaths from the coronavirus is relatively small in Germany. According to figures, an average of 8 percent more people died than usual in a given period. The researchers compared a week in April with death rates from the past four years. At least 18,693 people died in the Federal Republic between April 13 and 19, 8 percent more than in the years 2016 to 2019. Because the latest flu wave has ended since mid-March, the scientists blame the increase on the corona epidemic. By comparison, Italy reported nearly 50 percent more deaths in March than average in the years 2015 to 2019. In the Swedish capital Stockholm and the surrounding region, doubling of the normal death rate was reported in early April. In France, the number of deaths from March 1 to May 4 ...

Deputy Prime Minister Wants to End Idiosyncratic Merkel Policy

4May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Europe, Germany, News

Deputy Prime Minister Wants to End Idiosyncratic Merkel Policy

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Joachim Stamp, has accused Chancellor Angela Merkel of dictating corona policy as a monarch. He anticipates Merkel's Wednesday meeting with the sixteen state prime ministers, where policies against the coronavirus are outlined as usual. Merkel is increasingly under fire for its resistance to rapid relaxation of the restrictive measures. For example, Stamp threatens to open the daycare centres in NRW itself if no decisions are made on Wednesday in Berlin. "We can't be kept on the leash for another week and we'll go our own way." He thinks that the federal states should decide for themselves how they should take measures or relax them because the virus has managed in different ways in the federal sta...

Germany Extends the Border Controls Because of the Coronavirus to May 4

15Apr

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

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Germany Extends the Border Controls Because of the Coronavirus to May 4

Germany extends the border controls introduced a month ago because of the coronavirus to May 4. Border checks with Austria, France, Luxembourg, Denmark and Switzerland will be carried out for at least another twenty days, the German Ministry of the Interior said. The borders with the Netherlands and Belgium remain without controls, although supervision has been tightened. People who are not German and who do not live in the country must have a "good reason" to enter the country. This concerns, for example, EU citizens who have to go home through the country or truck drivers who transport essential goods. Besides, Germans who return from a stay abroad for more than a day are obliged to stay at home in self-isolation.

Stolen Jewels from Grünes Gewölbe Museum Offered on the Dark Web

10Jan

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Germany, News

Stolen Jewels from Grünes Gewölbe Museum Offered on the Dark Web

A security firm from Tel Aviv, Israel, was offered two jewels through a hidden side of the internet that was stolen at the end of November from the Grünes Gewölbe museum in the German city of Dresden, in Saxony. It was there that the most significant art theft was committed since the Second World War. The diamonds were offered to Israeli buyers via the dark web, a hidden piece of the internet. These are employees of the CGI security firm. The newspaper Bild and the public broadcaster MDR report this. CGI is an Israeli security firm with headquarters in Tel Aviv. It operates worldwide, including former soldiers from the Israeli army and former employees of the Mossad, the Israeli secret service. It concerns two pieces from the collection: a breast star and a shoulder strap. The ...

27Aug

By Eunice MontjoyNo Comments

Business, Germany, News

Tesla Drops On German Stock Exchange

Tesla Drops on German stock exchange after 180 Degrees turn over Stock exchange Exit. Tesla went down considerably on Monday morning at the German trade fair Tradegate. The share stood at around 4 percent value loss around eleven o'clock after the stock exchange of the electric car manufacturer was cancelled this weekend. Topman Elon Musk declared that Tesla will still be listed on the stock exchange. Earlier, he announced via Twitter that he wanted to get his company off the stock for 420 dollars per share. He claimed in that tweet that the financing was already around, on which Tesla shares raised significantly in a short time. Musk came after a dialogue with shareholders about his conclusion to keep Tesla on the stock market. They were gravely concerned about the exit plan...

Opel Has To Explain How Three New Types Of Diesel Engines Work

14Jul

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

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Opel Has To Explain How Three New Types Of Diesel Engines Work

Opel has to Explain how Three New types of Diesel engines Work. Opel must account for the operation of three new types of diesel engines. The German Transport Ministry confirmed this after reporting. The questions from the German officials are about the system that cleans the exhaust gases from the diesel engines that meet the Euro-6 directive. A spokesperson for the ministry does not want to speculate whether the system complies with the rules. It is also unknown in how many car models the diesel engines are and how many cars have been delivered with the relevant engines. Opel has two weeks to answer the questions from the Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt, the German counterpart of the Rijksdienst voor Wegverkeer. Opel, unlike other German car companies, has not yet been involved in scan...

Angela Merkel Warns Against The Outbreak Of Real Trade War

4Jul

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

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Angela Merkel Warns Against The Outbreak Of Real Trade War

Angela Merkel warns Against the Outbreak of real Trade War. German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns that a "real trade war" will arise if the US introduces additional import tariffs on European cars, reports The Greater. The German Chancellor does not yet want to speak of a "trade war", but calls it a "trade conflict", German media write Wednesday. "It is worth every effort to ensure that this dispute does not turn into a real war," said Merkel on Wednesday in the German Bundestag. The import tariffs on European cars are, according to her, "much more serious" than the previously added tax on imports of European steel and aluminium. According to the German Chancellor, the financial crisis shows that cooperation works better than unilateral measures. "The international financial c...

No Breakthrough On US Import Duties At G7

11Jun

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

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No Breakthrough On US Import Duties At G7

No Breakthrough on US Import Duties at G7: The countries of the G7 have not been able to make agreements about the import duties that the United States has recently forced on the other states. However, it has been agreed to stay in conversation with each other. The leaders of Germany, France, Great Britain, Japan, Italy and Canada showed Trump in the common talk in Quebec in Quebec all the figures showing that the US import levies are inadequate for trade. Trump replied to his conversation partners by coming up with their values to prove the contrary, reports FOX News Point. After the big conversation, Trump met with French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. After the conversation with Macron, both leaders seemed carefully optimistic about pos...

Record Number of Britons Applying for German Nationality

23May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Germany, Local, News, UK

Record Number of Britons Applying for German Nationality

A record number of Britons received German nationality last year: 7493, against 2865 in 2016, and only 622 in 2015, reports the German statistical office. The connection with the approaching Brexit is obvious: 2016 was the year that the British voted in an election to leave the European Union. In the past two years, a total of 10,362 Britons were German nationals, and that is more than double that in the fifteen years before: between 2000 and 2015 there were almost 5100, published by the News Tribune. About nine percent of Britons who received a German passport do not live in Germany, but have a connection with the country, for example, who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s. The largest group of foreigners who received German nationality were, just like in previous years, th...