Axel Springer chief blasts German govt over postal wages: report
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The head of Axel Springer, Europe's largest newspaper publisher, which plans to stop investing in a private postal service because of German minimum wage laws, blasted the Berlin government for ignoring a conflict of interest.
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Swiss Finance Minister Hans Rudolf Merz has hit back at European Union (EU) complaints about low Swiss corporate taxes, saying that some EU governments distorted competition by subsidising private industry.
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The gains made by parties of the extreme right and left in elections in two eastern German states on Sunday spark much negative comment in regional and national papers.
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Germany's Finance Ministry puts pressure on Deutsche Post boss Klaus Zumwinkel to quit.
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There's a blizzard of criticism in Scandinavian papers and German papers grapple with low birth rates
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Bundesbank president Axel Weber was  quoted in a newspaper interview on Sunday expressing his  concerns about inflationary pressures in Germany and his fears  the annual price rise may hit 3 percent by the end of the year.
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Anger in Germany against mobile phone giant Nokia for closing a factory grew on Saturday with the head of one of the parties in the governing coalition joining the calls for a boycott.
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The chief executive of DHL-owner Deutsche Post is quizzed on suspicion of a 1m-euro tax evasion.
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"I referred to him as a political prostitute, now that he's taking big checks from (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. But the sex workers in my district objected, so I will no longer use that phrase"  A leading Democratic lawmaker lashed out at the former leaders of Germany and France, calling former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder a `political prostitute.' Germany denounced the remarks by Rep. via York News-Times
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Klaus Zumwinkel will resign as chief  executive of German mail and logistics group Deutsche Post, the  company said on Friday, as a tax-dodging probe threatened to  ensnare more rich Germans.
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Germany's fat cat tax dodgers were under fire Saturday from government ministers after it was revealed that possibly billions of euros had been channeled into accounts in Lichtenstein.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out in a Sunday newspaper interview at Germany&#39;s conservative opposition for its drive to torpedo Turkey&#39;s EU membership bid, accusing it of populism.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday accused the Social Democrats, partners in her "grand coalition," of lurching to the left after they called for a rollback of key reforms.
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The German co-chief executive of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. on Wednesday criticized the French for failing to resolving a leadership fight over the company more quickly.
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The German chancellor, Gerhard SchrÃ¶der, suffered a setback yesterday as voters in a regional election punished the government for pushing through controversial welfare reforms that have sparked weeks of street protests.
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Voters in two east German states angry over high unemployment handed a rebuke Sunday to Germany's two biggest parties, giving big gains to far right and former Communist groups, television projections showed.
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More striking German civil servants held rallies Tuesday to press for higher wages amid a growing tax evasion scandal that could give labour militants a tailor-made issue to back up their demands.