German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives toughened their tone on integrating migrants on Wednesday, debating a resolution on tackling forced marriage and honor killings under the motto: "Our values. Our future."
A day after Merkel called for (...)
Germany's biggest energy company, E.ON, is to split into two following a shareholders' vote on Wednesday, as the
firm battles to keep up with the government's drive towards renewables, dpa reported.
A near-unanimous majority of 99.7 per cent cleared (...)
German energy group RWE said on Friday it
would complete the 5-billion-euro (6.5-billion-dollar) sale of its
oil business unit to LetterOne Group, a company controlled by Russian
oligarch Mikhail Fridman, by March at the latest, dpa reported.
Under (...)
Poison from an unknown source has killedthousands of fish in a German lake, police said Friday according to dpa.
At several times during the day on Friday several hundred square metres of the surface of Baldeney lake near the western German city of (...)
Arcandor, a troubled German retail empire, said today it would appeal to Chancellor Angela Merkel's government for a 650-million-euro (880-million-dollar) bailout to stave off collapse, dpa reported.
Arcandor, which runs a chain of department (...)
Slovakia, which has been hard hit by the
Russian-Ukrainian gas delivery crisis has found a white knight in the
form of Germany's RWE Power, which has promised Saturday to make gas
deliveries, according to dpa.
The RWE deliveries are to begin (...)
One of Germany's biggest utilities, RWE,
said Friday it will erect 150 to 180 wind turbines off the German
coast, creating a wind farm with 960 megawatts of capacity, according to dpa.
German plans to generate electricity offshore have lagged. So (...)
A German businessmen appeared in court on
Thursday charged with illegal arms exports to Iraq, according to dpa.
The Iraq-born 47-year-old is accused of exporting 78 power units
to the Middle East country in November 2004 in violation of an (...)
A rare form of snow which is induced by electricity generation stations fell Friday in areas near the German city of Essen, DPA reported.
Meteorologists assured worried residents that the 5 to 8 centimetres of snow that fell in gardens and on (...)
THE ERA OF CHEAP IS PAST, THE CHIEF OF
GERMAN ENERGY GIANT E.ON AG TOLD THE GROUP'S ANNUAL MEETING THURSDAY, ACCORDING TO DPA.
WULF BERNOTAT TOLD SHAREHOLDERS ATTENDING THE GROUP'S ANNUAL
GENERAL MEETING IN ESSEN THAT THE GLOBAL DEMAND FOR (...)
A leading German gas distribution company said Sunday that Russia's move Sunday to cut off natural gas supplies to Ukraine would not endanger overall gas supplies to Germany, according to DPA.
"We are well prepared. Even if there is a further (...)
