https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Thousands of Thyssenkrupp steel workers in Germany on Tuesday protested against planned job cuts, accusing bosses at the struggling conglomerate of mismanagement after a failed merger bid with Tata steel. https://www.thelocal.de/20191203/thousands-of-steel-workers-protest-against-german-job-cuts-thyssenkrupp Tue, 03 Dec 2019 17:58:06 +0100 thousands-of-steel-workers-protest-against-german-job-cuts-thyssenkrupp About 1,400 Air Berlin workers may soon be out of a job, some as early as the end of this month, according to a union paper obtained by AFP on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.de/20171007/1400-air-berlin-workers-to-lose-jobs-union Sat, 07 Oct 2017 18:38:04 +0200 1400-air-berlin-workers-to-lose-jobs-union The online English language section of famous German news magazine, Der Spiegel, is to be drastically cut. It is not making enough money, magazine bosses decided. https://www.thelocal.de/20131220/spiegel-online-makes-cuts-to-english-section Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:20:00 +0100 spiegel-online-makes-cuts-to-english-section Germany's pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP) said on Thursday that they planned to propose a blanket two-percent cut across all ministries in an upcoming meeting on the 2014 budget. https://www.thelocal.de/20130124/47543 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:16:00 +0100 47543 German Federal Bank President Jens Weidmann has called on the government to make bigger budget cuts than planned so far, because of the country's "special responsibility" to the euro. https://www.thelocal.de/20120101/39849 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:21:00 +0100 39849 An attempted manslaughter investigation has been launched after two police officers were seriously injured by a homemade shrapnel grenade during a demonstration against the government savings package in Berlin on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.de/20100613/27817 Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +0200 27817 The brawl between Angela Merkel’s government and Germany’s state leaders over tax cuts intensified sharply over the weekend with two conservative premiers vowing to vote against the cuts and one even threatening to resign. https://www.thelocal.de/20091129/23591 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:56:00 +0100 23591