Highway Speed Limit Plan Irks Germans
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An EU official called on Germany to give up the famous freedom of its highways and impose speed limits on the autobahn to fight global warming _ a demand that drew angry responses on Sunday in a country that ...Comment
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Europe&#39;s biggest carmaker said 30,000 jobs could be cut in Germany if unions do not agree to cost-cutting plans. Volkswagen is pushing for a wage freeze and more flexibility in working hours to counteract falling sales.
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Committee considers tech-lite plan to save planet The EU Parliament's environment committee is considering a proposal to ban all cars capable of exceeding 100 mph (162 km/hour) from 2013. The proposal, put forward by LibDem MEP Chris Davies, is based on the arguments that cars that go faster than 100 mph are "over-engineered to a ridiculous degree", and that for safety reasons, they need to be heavier, and hence to burn more fuel.â¦
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Germans on the dole might be forced to  give up anything more than the most modest of cars to help  support themselves if a plan by conservative political leaders  is approved, German media reported on Wednesday.
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Hundreds of workers at an Opel car plant in Germany kept up a protest outside the factory gates Sunday against plans by owner General Motors Corp.
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WORKERS at General Motorsâ German unit Adam Opel are not out of the woods yet. The company and union officials have agreed to reduce the German workforce by up to 10,000, but if cost cutting falls short, or
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By Ed Mendel, The San Diego Union-Tribune  Feb. 20--SACRAMENTO -- A surge of new highway money from a $19.9 billion  transportation bond has renewed political infighting over whether Caltrans  should use government or private engineers, bringing warnings of possible  project delays.
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"The SPD cannot close its eyes to the fact that 43% of all violent crimes in Germany are committed by people under 21 years of age and that nearly half of these are by foreign youths"  The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, today gave her backing to a controversial plan to introduce boot camps and "warning shot" spells in prison for criminal youths. via Surrey Hants Star
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Germany, with its high costs, reluctant consumers and restive auto workers, has become a major drag on the country's two largest carmakers, DaimlerChrysler and Volkswagen , which both reported mixed earnings on ...
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Thousands of German workers took part in protests Tuesday against a government plan to raise the retirement age to 67, the country's biggest industrial union said.Comment
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Germany seeks to restrict far-right rallies ahead of sensitive WWII anniversary events.
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Motorists caught speeding slightly above the limit could receive a reduced penalty under government proposals for fairer fines.
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The fight is on over a plan to build vast corridors for cars, trucks, trains -- and almost everything else
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Poland should choose a different route for a planned motorway to Lithuania, say MEPs.
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New tolls, a particularly controversial part of Pennsylvaniaâs plans to meet its growing transportation needs, are an unpopular idea among users of Interstate 80.
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The German government presented a new "VW law" Wednesday that would preserve workers' rights to veto plant construction and relocations.
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Plans to privatize Germany&#39;s national railway, Deutsche Bahn (DB), ahead of national elections in 2006 have been stopped in their tracks after the supervisory board deemed the timeframe &quot;unrealistic.