Walesa: Germany should play leading role in Europe
DW spoke to Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Polish President Lech Walesa about the events 25 years ago and the parallels to current developments in Ukraine. DW: The fall of. The events back then were able to take the biggest politicians of the.
Hopes, fears for the future ahead of Greek poll
Like many other Greeks, the hairdresser hopes for an ease to austerity. He needs to pay off a bank. The business owner told DW that he no longer trusts in the campaign promises from politicians, who pretend theyre able to reorganize Greek debt.
Greek PM announces cuts to crisis-era taxes
At talks in Paris this week, Greek officials brought up the issue of tax relief and rolling back austerity with its lenders from the EU and International Monetary Fund (IMF) as part of the countrys latest bailout review. However, there has been no.
Grexit may be manageable, but Berlin wants Athens to stay
Greeces left-wing Syriza party has led recent opinion polls, and its leader, Alexis Tsipras, has said that if he gets into power, he will move to roll back many of the reforms the current government has made to get its financial house in order and.
Merkel and Samaras laud Greeces progress on reforms
Greece is now sending positive messages. She urged Greece to stick with its structural reform program and continue with budgetary austerity. Samaras said that Greece would achieve a primary surplus this year - i.e. he��.
Republican win would worsen Obamas foreign policy pains
Republican control of Congress could have implications for domestic policy, such as trying to roll back Obamas health-care reform. But it could also. DW asked two scholars to weigh in on how a Republican victory could affect five key international.
Greeces party leaders make final appeals ahead of Sundays vote
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras used his last speech of the campaign to warn voters against voting for the far-left Syriza party, which has vowed to roll back austerity measures and renegotiate the terms of the countrys international bailout.
Thousands protest in Brussels against austerity, EU-US trade deal
The D19-20 Alliance denounces austerity as a means by which the government makes workers pay for the financial crisis and allows for a roll-back of important social programs forged over generations, like free medical care. The Alliance is worried that.
European stocks rise despite political turmoil in Greece.
Nevertheless, there are concerns that Greeces anti-austerity left-wing opposition party Syriza, if it wins the election due to take place in early 2015, might roll back some of the reforms the country implemented over the past. And should a new government go back on reforms, the country might face difficulties financing itself as its access to credit from its international lenders would be hampered, and Greece is still not in a position to tap financial. DW recommends��.
Merkel and Samaras laud Greeces progress on reforms
The idea of austerity is highly problematic, Varoufakis told DW It can work if there is excess demand in a countrys export markets - then, in effect, a country can replace public sector jobs with private sector jobs, and export its unemployment.
Hopes, fears for the future ahead of Greek poll - Deutsche.
Like many other Greeks, the hairdresser hopes for an ease to austerity.. The business owner told DW that he no longer trusts in the campaign promises from politicians, who pretend theyre able to reorganize Greek debt overnight.. While the left-wing opposition pledges publicly-funded benefits and to roll back privatization, the conservative Prime Minister Samaras insists he will continue with carefully-regulated tax breaks and investment incentives for companies.
Grexit - Deutsche Welle
Greeces left-wing Syriza party has led recent opinion polls, and its leader, Alexis Tsipras, has said that if he gets into power, he will move to roll back many of the reforms the current government has made to get its financial house in order and comply with the terms of Greeces international bailout.. A German report says Chancellor Angela Merkel is prepared to let Greece quit the eurozone should the people elect a government that abandons austerity. Berlin is��.
German holiday resorts miss Russian tourists
Instead of two weeks off, they only get a weeks leave as of 2015 and therefore have to be back at work on January 6. Lothes said that would likely lead to considerably fewer Russian skiers on the slopes of the Zugspitze and Garmisch Klassik ski resorts.
IMF suspends aid to Greece until snap election is completed
Greece faces no immediate financing needs, he added. The early election has sparked worries that Greeces far left Syriza party could dominate the legislature and roll back tough austerity measures that the IMF requires - and that Greece needs in.
Opinion: A new man from the east - the European Councils new president.
Had he been given the opportunity, he could have given the EU a much stronger international profile. But that would have been at the expense of the other state leaders, which they did not want. The alternative, therefore, was someone like Herman Van .
Fifty years of consumer goods testing in Germany
But the Stiftung Warentest is still active in reviewing one consumer device after another, and its blessing can make or break a product. Since it was. Its critics have turned electric toothbrushes on and off thousands of times, blasted hiking boots.
Greek parliament fails to elect president in second round
This now means that a third and final vote will be held on December 29. If Dimas fails to. They fear a victory by radical leftist party Syriza, which wants to renegotiate Greeces international bailout and roll back the austerity measures of recent.
U2 gives away new album - and its a smart business move
Blackwell moved his company to the UK in 1962, and from there developed it into what became perhaps the most influential independent record label in the world. Over the years, Island signed a slew of bands that would go on to achieve stardom, including .
From Belfast to Berlin
Some noted that they would have been better off not leaving their scarves and gloves at home.. Back then, she remembers, bulldozers were rolling everywhere, everything was being rebuilt: I really wanted to see what happened here in the meantime.
IMF suspends aid to Greece until snap election is completed.
The early election has sparked worries that Greeces far left Syriza party could dominate the legislature and roll back tough austerity measures that the IMF requires - and that Greece needs in order to qualify for billions in��.
UK announces shale gas fund to avoid squandering revenue
But Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, a Conservative peer in the House of Lords told DW that he is keen to get the ball rolling now. What Im interested in is finding ways that we make sure that where we have finite resources which, in my view, are not.