City banker not 'German enough'
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A City banker was sacked from his Â£2m a year job because he was "not German enough", an employment tribunal hears.
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Cincinnati s mayor is planning an economic-development trip to Germany that is to be paid for by private businesses.
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Â· Dozens turned down by local Catholic primaries Â· Councillor warns of mini apartheid in seaside town
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Turkish immigrant Safter Cinar came to Germany in 1967, earned a business degree from a German university and has two children who are citizens, just like him. Yet he still has to endure the backhanded compliment: "Oh, you speak such good German."
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BERLIN Claudia Windisch is just one of many East Germans looking for a job. Yet finding work as an architect, never easy in the best of times, has proved difficult for Windisch, 25, who graduated from college last March in her native Saxony.
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By Fraser Sherman, Destin Log, Fla.  Dec. 9--No matter how much effort city officials put into preparing a city budget, it can't budget for everything.
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Plans for a Chinese community centre in south Belfast may have to be reconsidered because of local objections.
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Business & money: The City risks financial turmoil unless it learns the lessons from this summer's credit crunch, warns Bank.
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With his city teetering above a financial abyss, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick went before television viewers this month and delivered some grave news: He had no choice but to lay off nearly 700 city workers and cut services. This was no time for wanton spending, he said.
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Germany is alarmed that many Russian-German immigrants are having a tough time integrating, the BBC's Ray Furlong reports.
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GENEVA - Voters in Switzerland - where more than one in five is a foreigner - rejected proposals to liberalize tough rules on citizenship in a national referendum Sunday.    In an outcome revealing the deep divide between the country's French- and more conservative German-speaking regions, two government-backed plans failed to win support in a majority of the Alpine country's 26 cantons, or states, official results showed by early afternoon...
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The immigrant neighborhood of Vollsmose is known throughout Denmark for the wrong reasons. To many, unemployment and crime have made it a poster child for failed integration, and residents fear this week's terror raids will set it back further.
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The German slated to become the European Union's next industry commissioner suggested Thursday he might consider toning down proposed chemical safety rules, citing concerns they are too bureacratic and would hamper business.
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DRESDEN, Germany  - The government of the eastern German state of Saxony on Sunday decided to sell its stricken lender SachsenLB to Stuttgart-based LBBW  for what sources said was 300 million euros in a move that speed further bank consolidation.
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ISLAMBAD: Ditmar Staffelt, German deputy minister for economy, called on Dr Salman Shah, advisor to prime minister on finance, on Monday along with a delegation of German businessmen.
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Recently the Financial Times broke the story that Germany might join the reconstruction effort in Iraq if John Kerry wins the presidential election.
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By DAN EGAN  There is a torrent of opposition across the region to the City of New Berlin's request to pump Lake Michigan water out of the Great Lakes watershed, but that doesn't mean Wisconsin will necessarily heed it.