Germans pave way for UK tolls
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Government transport advisers are preparing for the launch of the world's largest road-tolling scheme to see whether it provides a workable model for the introduction of universal charging in Britain.
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STUTTGART - Despite signs of a global economic slowdown, two of Germany&#39;s leading luxury carmakers - Porsche AG and BMW AG - have said they are off to a strong start to their new business years.
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LONDON, Nov 8 (IPS) - A new alliance between Britain and Germany to   contain global warming is looking to joint ventures around the  world to  clean up the air.
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Germany's government plans to tax cars based on emissions instead of engine size to help tackle climate change, Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said.Comment
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Nearly 50 Pittsburgh-area businesses that have financial ties to Germany and western Europe say they'll purchase $10 million worth of airline tickets if German airline Lufthansa will serve the ...
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Carmaker Porsche plans to mount a legal challenge over plans to increase London's congestion charge to Â£25-a-day.
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(InfoWorld) - The European Union's 27 governments gave the final OK Thursday to a law that will slash the cost of using a mobile phone abroad by around 70 percent, the German government said. By the end of this month mobile phone operators will have to offer subscribers a capped rate for phoning or receiving calls while outside their own countries. In the first year, roaming tariffs will be capped at â¬0.49 ($0.66) a minute for making calls abroad and â¬0.24 for receiving them. It will fall to â¬0.46 and â¬0.22 in the second year and â¬0.43 and â¬0.19 in the third, respectively. A rear-guard action by the U.K. in defense of mobile phone operators petered out and British Industry Minister Margaret Hodge was convinced to support theÂ compromise packageÂ put forward by the European Parliament. Mobile phone operators haveÂ lobbied hard to avert the law, which they see as unnecessary and harmful to competition. German Economy Minister Michael Glos was chairing the meeting because Germany currently holds the six-month rotating presidency of the EU. He will announce the agreement reached Thursday morning at a press conference at 3 p.m. CET (1 p.m. GMT). Â
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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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Moves to scrap tolls on the Forth and Tay road bridges is expected to go forward with the publication of a bill.
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By PIERS TOWNLEY MORE Londoners will be digging deeper into their pockets to get to work from Monday, when the congestion charge zone is extended west.
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German-owned Thomas  Cook is to buy British package holiday rival MyTravel, the  companies said on Monday, creating a new company worth about  2.8 billion pounds ($5.45 billion).
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OPPENHEIM, Germany - It didnât take a grasp of the German language to bake cookies, years of experience to decorate a Christmas tree, or a sense of proper customs to sing carols.
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Cars enter the congestion charge zone at London's Picadilly Circus in 2004. The area covered by a toll for traffic entering London has almost doubled, angering many residents and businesses, although the city's ...Comment
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German shoppers are splashing out on bigger items ahead of a sharp rise in VAT in January, a survey suggests.
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It&#039;s that time of year again when Europeans pack up the kids and pets and embark on an annual vacation exodus &amp;#151; jamming highways that are no celebration of European unity. The highway headaches are rooted largely in European governments&#039; inability to craft a sensibly numbered, well-maintained and uniformly sign-posted highway grid.
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BERLIN (BBC News) - Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected a call from her Social Democrat coalition partners for a speed limit on the country's motorways. Merkel told German ZDF television that "this is not going to happen with me". "Traffic jams are at least as harmful to the climate as speeding," she said. Unlike its EU neighbours, Germany applies motorway speed restrictions only in traffic bottlenecks, near road works or in particular circumstances.
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Laws doubling the passenger duty people must pay when taking flights from the UK have come into force.