Tag: Germany

• Friday, October 23rd 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  China and Germany heading for superpower status, forecast Vladimir Putin

  

  The era when the United States and Russia decided the world's most important questions is in the past, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, saying China and Germany were now heading for superpower status.

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• Friday, October 16th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Covid-19: Overloaded hospitals in Netherlands to transfer patients to Germany

  

  Hospitals in the Netherlands on Thursday said they would ask their German counterparts to take patients after the number of those hospitalized with the coronavirus doubled in the past week, to 1,526.

• Thursday, October 15th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Germany pledges half billion Euros to aid Holocaust survivors, exposed to Covid-19

  

  Germany has agreed to provide more than a half-billion Euros to aid Holocaust survivors struggling under the burdens of the coronavirus pandemic, the organization that negotiates compensation with the German government said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, October 14th 2020 - 08:51 UTC

  EU/UK post-Brexit talks in “critical stage”: fisheries, disputes and fair competition stumbling blocks

  

  The European Union demanded a “substantive” movement on Tuesday from Britain on fisheries, dispute settlement, and guarantees of fair competition in their talks on a post-Brexit trade deal, with Germany saying they were at a “critical stage”.

• Tuesday, September 29th 2020 - 08:18 UTC

  More cases of African swine fever in wild boars in Germany

  

  One more case of African swine fever (ASF) has been confirmed in a wild boar in the eastern German state of Brandenburg over the weekend, Germany’s agriculture ministry said.

• Friday, September 25th 2020 - 09:35 UTC

  Mercosur deal is “parked indefinitely”, agree German and Irish ministers

  

  Ireland dairy industry has praised the German Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner who has said she is not going to push forward efforts to seal the Mercosur Trade agreement and underlined she had serious concerns over the deal.

• Thursday, September 24th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Pork rib dishes soar in China following the ban on German pig meat imports

  

  The cost of China's much-loved pork rib dishes is soaring after Beijing suspended imports of pig meat from major supplier Germany, hurting restaurants still recovering from the coronavirus hit earlier this year.

• Wednesday, September 23rd 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  “Dear friends in London, please stop playing games”, Germany appeals

  

  Germany’s Europe Minister Michael Roth urged Britain on Tuesday to drop plans for a bill that would break the country’s obligations to the European Union under its withdrawal treaty as time was running out to clinch an EU-Britain trade deal.

• Monday, September 14th 2020 - 11:18 UTC

  Japan, China, South Korea ban pork imports from Germany; Spain, US and Brazil expected to benefit

  

  Japan suspended imports of pork and live pigs from Germany after a case of African swine fever (ASF) was confirmed in a wild boar in eastern Germany, the agriculture ministry said.

• Saturday, September 12th 2020 - 09:26 UTC

  German pork industry on tenterhooks: possible case of African Swine Fever

  

  A deadly pig disease may have just entered Germany, which, if confirmed, could spook international buyers and ravage exports from Europe's biggest hog-producing nation. A suspected case of African swine fever has been identified in the eastern state of Brandenburg, the Agriculture Ministry said late this week, referring to the virus that kills most infected pigs within 10 days but is not harmful to humans.