Berlin - European industry is likely to seek government aid similar to that offered this week to banks, a European Union commissioner, Guenter Verheugen, said Monday.
Speaking on Deutschlandfunk public radio, Verheugen said, "The demands have already begun from the car industry."
The German commissioner said, "It won't be easy for politicians to explain to the workers why hundreds of billions of euros are available for the banking system, but not when an entire industry is in trouble."
Berlin - Berlin was preparing Monday to announce details of how Germany is to commit hundreds of billions of euros to a rescue plan for the world economic system, with Chancellor Angela Merkel expected to speak to the media in the afternoon.
Sources said she and the two leading Social Democrats in her coalition government had agreed in the night on the basics of the plan, with the next move being to discuss it in cabinet.
Berlin, Oct 12 : A geologist has found evidence that a vast rock slide may have set off a tsunami that buried a prehistoric village on Lake Mondsee in the Austrian Alps.
According to a report in Spiegel Online, the theory that a severe rockslide in the Alps destroyed a prehistoric village, has been put forward by Alexander Binsteiner, a geologist and flint stone expert.
Berlin - DVB-T - digital television received using an antenna - is available in a growing number of cities and countries. It's even possible to watch DVB-T on a laptop. The easiest way to do so is using a USB stick as a receiver.
"There are also cards for the PCMCIA slot on older laptops," says Michael Wolf, hardware expert from the German consumer testing organisation Stiftung Warentest in Berlin.
Berlin - Some 15,000 demonstrators marched in Berlin on Saturday to demand greater privacy, accusing the German government of creating a "surveillance state."
The Stop This Surveillance Madness rally ended at the Brandenburg Gate. Organizers said 100,000 people took part, but police on crowd duty said they had not seen more than about 15,000 present at any one time.
Berlin- An Iranian businessman arrested a week ago in Germany on suspicion of illegal exports to Iran was a valued agent of the German foreign intelligence service BND, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
Prosecutors had advised the BND before the arrest they had no choice but to detain the man, 61, who had the code name Sindbad, because of suspicions that he was supplying equipment needed to make Iran's Shabah missiles, Spiegel said.
Berlin - European industry is likely to seek government aid similar to that offered this week to banks, a European Union commissioner, Guenter Verheugen, said Monday.
Berlin - Berlin was preparing Monday to announce details of how Germany is to commit hundreds of billions of euros to a rescue plan for the world economic system, with Chancellor Angela Merkel expected to speak to the media in the afternoon.
Berlin, Oct 12 : A geologist has found evidence that a vast rock slide may have set off a tsunami that buried a prehistoric village on Lake Mondsee in the Austrian Alps.
of cities and countries. It's even possible to watch DVB-T on a laptop. The easiest way to do so is using a USB stick as a receiver.
Berlin - Some 15,000 demonstrators marched in Berlin on Saturday to demand greater privacy, accusing the German government of creating a "surveillance state."
Berlin- An Iranian businessman arrested a week ago in Germany on suspicion of illegal exports to Iran was a valued agent of the German foreign intelligence service BND, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
