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Today, however, the Busch-Reisinger Museum houses the world’s leading collection of artwork from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Now celebrating its centennial, the museum has had “a most improbable survival,” according to Daimler-Benz Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Peter Nisbet...
...electioneering. Maybe. But German firms are alleged to have illicit business interests in the country, too. More than 80 German companies, plus research laboratories and individuals, are listed in Iraq's weapons report to the U.N., German daily Die Tageszeitung reported. For almost 30 years, companies such as Daimler-Benz, Siemens and Carl Zeiss allegedly supplied equipment, raw materials and technical know-how which could have been used for Saddam Hussein's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programs. Although the paper also named companies from the U.S., France, the U.K., China and Russia, German firms made up more than half...
...country where the Prime Minister, Wim Kok, famously likes to ride a bike to work, Fortuyn's flamboyance was a political statement in itself. He traveled in a Daimler with a fender flag bearing the family crest, employed a butler named Herman, wore tailored Italian suits and oversized ties, and reveled in his homosexuality. "He was like a jester, the one who holds up a mirror to the politicians and says, 'Look, you're ugly,'" notes Arthur Ringeling, a political scientist at Rotterdam's Erasmus University. Raised in a middle-class Catholic family, Fortuyn was a nominal Marxist during...
Last spring, when Daimler Chrysler offered early retirement to thousands of older autoworkers, it got more than it bargained for. So many people accepted the deal that the company faced a potential shortage of critical skills at its plants and had to withdraw some offers. With half the auto industry's work force eligible to retire in the next five years, Ford and GM took Chrysler's lead and scaled back their early-retirement programs...
...quite a record in recent times. Take cars, something very dear to the European consumer. Competition Commissioner Mario Monti wants to break up the informal shelters that allow carmakers to charge different prices in different markets. But Schröder, eyeing the profits and employment rolls of VW, Daimler, Opel et al., doesn't like it. Liberalization of the energy market? No, says Berlin, we don't want a European regulatory commission that would set Europe-wide "tolls" for power transmissions. Why not? Because such prices are now the highest in Germany...