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...also given the city a boost. The number of visitors from abroad is up 2.5 times since 2003. Just as dramatic is the influx of foreigners moving to Berlin to live - they now make up almost 1 in 7 of its 3.5 million inhabitants. The number of non-German Europeans living in Berlin has more than doubled since 2003. There are now more of them than Turks, who long made up the largest contingent of foreigners. In Mitte, almost 30% of the population comes from abroad; before the Wall came down, the only foreigners were a smattering of East bloc...
...long-winded and badly written, a tirade against all things non-German that would have disappeared if its author had never managed to turn many of his vile words into action. Adolf Hitler's notorious Mein Kampf (My Struggle), a manifesto posing as autobiography, has long been banned from German bookshelves "out of a responsibility and respect for the victims of the Holocaust." But 83 years after it was first published, some Germans argue it should be made available again in order to drain it of whatever power it might still have...
...growing number of non-German engineers is a result of economics and education. Countries like India, China and the Czech Republic are producing highly qualified engineers who are less expensive than their German counterparts. And it's not just engineers who are caught in the global squeeze. In 2004 Siemens extracted an agreement from its workforce at two mobile-phone-handset plants in Bocholt and Kamp-Lintfort to work longer hours and accept a cut in holiday pay. Frustrated union leaders say they were blackmailed into eating what amounted to a 20% wage cut. "We had to accept these terms...
...Agassi's prodigious talent wouldn't quit. He started four companies in his 20s and sold one, Top Tier, to SAP for $400 million. He ran a subsidiary, SAP Portals, and developed XApps--new software designed to work with existing systems. In February SAP made Agassi the first non-German member of its board, and he replaced SAP founder Hasso Plattner in the top technologist role...
...Hans Eichel. "Herr Ackermann has our full confidence," Eichel told reporters. Although not directly connected to his bank job, the Mannesmann case typifies the head-on collision between Ackermann's brash style of management and the bank's more cautious German approach. Ackermann, who is Swiss, is the first non-German to head the bank in its 133-year history. He has aimed to make it function more like an American or British financial institution, moving away from Germany's traditional reliance on consensus. The bank has switched, for example, to American accounting rules, but Ackermann's biggest cultural change...