Germany Paves Way for First Census in 20 Years
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Germany's parliament has cleared the way for the first census in decades. The tally isn't expected to provoke storms of protest as it did in the past.But it could show that there are fewer people in the country. The census will begin in 2011, the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, decided on Thursday, Sept. 21.
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Berlin, Sep 15 (IPS) - The ordination of three rabbis in Germany -- the  first such event since the holocaust -- has been lauded by  politicians and Jewish organisations as a step forward in  Germany's long battle to come to terms with its traumatic  history.
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Germany's sweeping welfare reforms went into effect without a hitch Monday as labor offices cut payments for a million jobless and qualifying tests got tougher.
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BERLIN, Jul 19 (IPS) - A summit on integration of some 15 million migrants  into German society has produced an ambitious new programme.
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DRESDEN, Germany  - A trio of students will be   confirmed as rabbis this week, the first such ordination in   Germany since the Nazi regime began the slaughter of six   million European Jews more than 60 years ago.
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BERLIN : Voting got off to a slow start in a traditional stronghold of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD) which faced its last test at the ballot box this year.
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Germany beat San Marino to set a European Championship qualifying record.
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Until recently, it seemed that Holocaust movies came from everywhere but Germany.
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Germany's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 1.7 percent in 2004 after three years of stagnation, the Federal Statistic Office announced Thursday.
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Berlin and Warsaw have moved closer to ending a row over Germany's plans to mark the expulsion of millions of Germans from eastern Europe after World War Two, a subject that has strained relations for years.
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As Germany marked the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the country&#39;s politicians took stock of the state of the nation -- and concluded that East-West discrepancies are still cleaving the country.
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Germany's economy is back on a stable path of growth after three years in stagnation and is not immediately threatened by the surge in oil prices, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Wednesday.
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Parties on the far right and left made gains in two state elections Sunday in Germany, with voters delivering a rebuke to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrats as he tries to rein in German welfare programs.
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IT HAS taken three months and almost 23,000 people in 111 countries, but between them they have chosen the âmost beautifulâ German word.
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Some 20,000 people took to the streets in the western German city of Cologne, waving German and Turkish flags, to protest against the use of violence in the name of Islam.
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Germany experienced the strongest growth in four years in 2004, but weak consumer spending continued to hamper Europe's largest economy, the government statistics office said Thursday.
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The German economy, Europe's biggest, is currently running up one record after another.