Merkel says Siemens must take responsibility for former employees
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said German electronics giant Siemens must take responsibility for 3,000 of its former workers who are set to lose their jobs.
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Speaking at Germany's first-ever IT summit on Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said telecommunications companies need to hook up with the country's traditional heavyweights in the automotive and chemical sectors, especially in the area of software engineering.
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China's human rights record should be properly addressed at this week's meeting of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations in Germany, an exile group said on Tuesday.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on  Tuesday pressed China to improve human rights and take on  greater international responsibilities as its global influence  grows.
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Turkey must meet its obligation to grant Cyprus trade privileges if it wants to avoid having its troubled accession talks with the European Union suspended, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.
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Under mounting pressure from German government officials and former employees of the mobile phone division it paid BenQ to take off its hands, Siemens has set up a â¬35 million ($44.4 million) fund to aid workers at risk of losing their jobs.
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Germany moved on Monday to control damage to its diplomatic ties with China a day after Chancellor Angela Merkel angered Beijing by holding an historic meeting with the Dalai Lama.
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Scandal-wracked Germen engineering giant Siemens said Thursday it would extend a limited amnesty for staff that expose illegal practices by one more month.
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Corporations have a big role to play in calming global hot spots such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and they shouldn't shy from trying to prevent wars from erupting in the first place, Siemens AG's president and ...
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A top conservative from Chancellor  Angela Merkel's party warned immigrants on Thursday they must  adapt to the German way of life or face "consequences."
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A Washington-based policy group says the United Nations (UN) secretary-general Kofi Annan must take responsibility for his staff&#39;s actions.
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Two more people have been arrested in an investigation of suspected embezzlement of company funds at Siemens bringing the total to six, Munich prosecutors said. The two worked at the internal audit and accounting unit of the electronics conglomerateÂs fixed-line communications division. Prosecutors say that the six people banded together to help commit breach of trust against Siemens by setting up secret funds outside Germany. Prosecutors said the embezzled amount could be more than 200 million euros ($255 million). They added that the money had not yet been tracked down.
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Former German Chancellor Gerhard  Schroeder on Thursday accepted responsibility for a case  involving a German-born Turkish man held in Guantanamo Bay that  has threatened to undermine Germany's foreign minister.
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After last year&#39;s reports of exploding batteries in Nokia Corp. phones and amid growing concern about electromagnetic radiation from wireless devices in general, Siemens AG warned
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New shareholders should not be admitted to European plane maker EADS's  shareholder pact, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a newspaper interview when asked about allowing Russian investors to buy in.
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DÃSSELDORF, GERMANY - Siemens AG has received the green light from operators to offer a patch for a software defect in some of its 65 series mobile phones that could cause hearing damage, the Munich-based manufacturer said Tuesday in a statement.
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The new chief executive of the engineering conglomerate Siemens said that a top priority for his first 100 days on the job would be to simplify the organizational structure that may have contributed to a bribery scandal.