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...Munich. it's the 65th anniversary of Kristallnacht - the infamous pogrom against Jews launched by Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Göbbels - and it's the day construction is set to begin on the city's first major synagogue since World War II. Hundreds of politicians and dignitaries, including German President Johannes Rau, Bavarian State Premier Edmund Stoiber and Paul Spiegel, head of Germany's Jewish community, will attend the groundbreaking ceremony. But if a ring of alleged neo-Nazis had its way, police say, Nov. 9 would also have been the day a bomb containing 1.7 kilos...
...European Economic Research reported that its survey of financial analysts and institutional investors had risen for the eighth straight month in August. And the widely watched Ifo index of business confidence in Western Germany rose from 89.2 in July to 90.8 in August, its fourth consecutive rise. The Munich-based economic institute surveys 7,000 executives each month about production, orders and inventories. "We've turned the corner," says Gernot Nerb, an economist at Ifo. "We're in the early phase of the upturn...
...Bayern Munich (Germany) €22 million; the biggest of the Bundesliga champion's buys is Roy Makaay, Europe's top scorer...
...Dublin, Amsterdam, Zurich and Vienna have had mobs. But no European country has embraced the mob quite like Germany, where 20 cities have staged mobs. "Germans are not usually spontaneous and this gives them a frame for a moment of craziness," says Anne Urbauer, a journalist in Munich. "It's a short escape and it's not really dangerous." For a pointless act, mobs have created a fair amount of serious analysis. Howard Rheingold, author of a 2002 book called Smart Mobs, thinks mobs are the newest form of social protest. "Smart mobs consist of people who are able...
...imported - functioned as a keep out sign for foreign brewers. As Coen Thönissen, from Dutch brewer Grolsch puts it: "The common wisdom was that beer in Germany isn't business. It's culture." That perceived impenetrability is evaporating. In 2001, Heineken entered into a joint venture with Munich-based Schörghuber Group to share control of BrauHolding (820 million liters), which brews, among other brands, Germany's No. 2 wheat beer, Paulaner Weissbier. Heineken said it was primarily interested in adding Paulaner to its global offering, but it also hatched a plan to use Schörghuber...