EU Sues Berlin Over Volkswagen Law
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The EU Commission on Wednesday dragged Berlin to court over a law that shields carmaking icon Volkswagen from hostile takeovers, the culmination of a long campaign to break down barriers to foreign investment.
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The European Commission said Monday it was suing Germany over a law allowing Deutsche Telekom AG to keep rivals off its high-speed Internet networks.
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When management and unions at Volkswagen meet in a plush Hanover hotel later this week, the future of Europe's biggest car maker will be at stake.
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Volkswagen and its union traded threats Wednesday ahead of renewed wage talks, with several thousand workers staging short work stoppages and the German carmaker&#39;s personnel chief warning of dramatic job cuts if the company doesn&#39;t get cost
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FRANKFURT : Labour conflict looks set to boil over in the German automobile sector in the coming weeks as car makers such as Volkswagen and Opel seek to impose rigorous belt-tightening measures as an answer to chronically weak demand.
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4,000 Volkswagen employees yesterday staged strikes against plans by the car manufacturer to freeze wages for two years. Volkswagen says it needs to cut costs because of competition from low-cost rivals, and
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Volkswagen again threatened to move jobs abroad as management sat down with unions to resume wage talks at a time when Europe's biggest car maker is seeking to impose controversial and painful cost cuts on its workforce.
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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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Parts of Germany&#39;s complex can and bottle recycling system violate European Union law, according to a ruling yesterday by the European Court of Justice, the EU&#39;s highest court.
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Volkswagen , the world's fourth largest carmaker, is recalling just over 300,000 VW brand Passat mid-size cars due to three different problems affecting models from the year 2005 to 2007, it said on Friday.
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Two of Europe's biggest car-makers, Volkswagen and Opel, will this week open the latest front in German industry's battle to slash costs, secure longer working hours and impose more flexible conditions -- or ...
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The German government is seeking more than 4.5bn euros compensation from the consortium behind a late-running toll system.
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BERLIN Facing a struggle to lower costs and lift its profit, Volkswagen said Friday that it would cut investment in its auto operations over the next two years and reshuffle its management board.
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Volkswagen AG, Europe's biggest carmaker, is threatening to slash 30,000 jobs to force unionized employees to accept a pay freeze in the latest and largest labor-management confrontation this year in Germany.
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Workers at Germany&#39;s automobile giant Volkswagen (VW) have staged warning strikes in the on-going wage dispute with the management.
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A German motorist injured 21 people Sunday when he drove a Volkswagen Polo through a concrete barrier that protects Berlin&#039;s main World Cup public viewing area, police said.
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LONDON, November 2  - The German automotive giant, Volkswagen AG (VOW.ETR), continued its negotiations with the labour union today on its planned labour cost reductions.