Tag: Germany

• Tuesday, August 24th 2021 - 08:20 UTC

  Black Ribbon Day in remembrance for victims of Communism and Nazism

  

  This Monday most European countries, plus the United States and Canada recalled that 23 August is the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, known as Black Ribbon Day.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2021 - 08:26 UTC

  Germany to sell its Lufthansa shares acquired during the pandemic

  

  The German Finance Agency has announced that in the coming weeks it will proceed to the sale of the state's 20% stake in the flag carrier Lufthansa, which it acquired in the midst of the pandemic to help impede the collapse of the company.

• Saturday, August 14th 2021 - 09:34 UTC

  Walling off “paradise” for freedom loving Germans: 13 August 1961

  

  Germany is recalling that sixty years ago the communist half of the divided country started to build the Berlin Wall, which would stand as a symbol of oppression and division, until the reunification of the country in late 1989.

• Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 08:05 UTC

  Chilean scientists sell marketing rights of alpaca-based antibody to German company

  

  The German company NanoTag Biotechnologies has purchased from The Austral University of Chile (AUCh) the marketing license for the W25 antibody, it was announced Friday in Santiago.

• Thursday, June 17th 2021 - 08:45 UTC

  Germany's birth rate jumps to its highest since 1998, after the first wave of coronavirus

  

  Germans have been busy during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a 10% birth rate jump in March to the highest figure since 1998, the Federal Statistical Office said in a release. Germany had already reported a 6% rise in births in February.

• Monday, June 14th 2021 - 10:01 UTC

  G7 Summit ends with signing of Carbis Bay Declaration to “end the pandemic”

  

  The world's wealthiest democracies Sunday signed the Carbis Bay Declaration whereby they all pledged to “end the pandemic and prepare for our futures” as well as to “build back better.”

• Monday, June 14th 2021 - 08:36 UTC

  G7 announces Build Back Better World to counter China's Belt and Road initiative

  

  The world's seven most advanced economies signalled on Sunday during the G7 summit a desire to build a rival to China's multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road initiative. German Chancellor said she hoped that a new G7 task force can present first infrastructure projects in developing countries in 2022

• Thursday, May 27th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  German Chancellor Merkel pledges to support Argentina in video-talk with President Fernández

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández and German Chancellor Angela Merkel Wednesday held a video conference during which both leaders discussed various issues concerning the future of diplomatic and economic relations between their countries.

• Saturday, May 22nd 2021 - 00:00 UTC

  German quality control regulator nailed over failed breast implants

  

  German product standards and safety testing giant TÜV Rheinland was found guilty of “negligence” this week after the German firm erred when awarding safety certificates for breast implants.

• Saturday, March 20th 2021 - 09:07 UTC

  VW closing down production in four plants in Brazil because of the pandemic

  

  Germany's Volkswagen said on Friday that it will suspend production at its four plants in Brazil owing to a surge in coronavirus infections in the country. The Wolfsburg-based firm said it will stop factories from March 24 for a 12-day period “to protect the health of its employees and their families.”