B&M suffer raft of departures in Germany
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Baker & McKenzie's German practice has lost six Frankfurt partners, including its head of finance Rainer Magold, to US rivals.
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Smoking bans and fines come into effect in bars and restaurants in much of Germany and all of France.
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Nearly 40,000 people in Germany took part in protests over US auto giant General Motors&#39; plans to axe 12,000 jobs, about one-fifth of its European workforce.
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European tour operators including Thomas Cook AG cancelled trips and began bringing customers home after an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed more than 20,000 people in the region.
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Workers at Opel auto plants in Bochum walked out Thursday as soon as the parent company, General Motors, announced it was cutting 10,000 jobs in Germany.
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A Volkswagen worker protests with a sign reading &quot;Captain Hartz, it&#39;s a trip on the Titanic for us&quot; during a warning strike at the Volkswagen factory in Hanover, northern Germany, on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004.
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Business confidence in Germany, Europe&#39;s largest economy, fell to its lowest level in more than a year in November as the euro&#39;s climb to a record high against the dollar threatened exports and unemployment at a five-year high crimped consumer spending
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At Ulrich Jung's hair salon, rumors are flying about the future of this small town in the rolling hills of southwestern Germany. One customer with a buzz cut has heard that all the U.S. troops will leave by 2007. Someone else has information that they will be gone sooner, perhaps within a year.
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Business confidence in Germany, Europe s largest economy, probably fell for the third month in four in November as the euro s climb to a record threatened exports and unemployment rose, a survey of economists ...
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BIRMINGHAM, England : British companies are under increasing pressure to relocate parts of their business overseas to remain competitive, with Asia and Eastern Europe the chosen destinations, a survey showed.
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BBC News Online looks at how the mass expulsions of Germans from the east after WWII is still causing problems today.
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TUI, Europe's biggest travel and tourism group, is expected to cut between 3,500 and 4,000 jobs in France, Britain and Germany as part of a restructuring effort, a newspaper reported.
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HOUSANDS of British Airways passengers are threatened with Bank Holiday misery after the airline cancelled more flights. The news will heighten fears of pandemonium in the coming days as BA struggles to cope with the staff shortage at Heathrow.
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The company has decided to leave the public markets.
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From assembly lines to retail counters, these are bitter and confusing days for German workers.
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German exports fall 1.2% in December as the effects of the high euro starts to bite.
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Workers at an Adam Opel AG plant in Germany whose stoppage in protest at threatened job cuts has forced two other factories to a halt planned to decide Wednesday whether to end their walkout.