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 Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture between Finnish and German engineering giants Nokia and Siemens, said on Wednesday it was shutting down one of its German units with the potential loss of 1,000 jobs. https://www.thelocal.de/20121205/46575 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:13:00 +0100 46575 German industrial giant Siemens and Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia will continue with their Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) venture after failing to find buyers for part of it, NSN said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20110713/36279 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:24:00 +0200 36279 The state premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, Jürgen Rüttgers, has come under heavy criticism and been forced to apologise for saying that Romanian workers are undisciplined and do not know what they are doing. https://www.thelocal.de/20090905/21719 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:08:00 +0200 21719 Nokia will reimburse the German state of North Rhine-Wesphalia more than €1.3 million ($2 million) to resolve a plant closure dispute that has cost the mobile phone giant tens of millions already, officials said Sunday. https://www.thelocal.de/20080727/13311 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:12:00 +0200 13311 Nokia will pay €30 million into a foundation to regenerate Bochum, the west German town hard hit by more than 3,000 job losses due to the mobile phone company’s closure of a plant there. https://www.thelocal.de/20080427/11545 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:39:00 +0200 11545 Employees at a Nokia plant to be closed in Bochum, Germany said Wednesday they are pleased with the €200 million severance package the cell phone maker has offered. https://www.thelocal.de/20080409/11199 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:50:00 +0200 11199 Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker, announced an accord with employees Tuesday on the closure of its plant in Bochum, Germany, including a severance package of €200 million. https://www.thelocal.de/20080408/11167 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:09:00 +0200 11167 Nokia has been given one week to return €41 million of the subsidies it received from the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and NRW bank. The reasoning behind this demand is that Nokia created fewer jobs since 2002 than it promised. https://www.thelocal.de/20080206/10279 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:17:00 +0100 10279 Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo has offered workers in Bochum, Germany a chance to transfer to the new plant in Romania. Nokia’s 44 percent surge in net profit over the last quarter has stirred further anger among those affected by Nokia’s plant closure in Bochum and has intensified criticism. https://www.thelocal.de/20080125/10235 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:23:00 +0100 10235 Bonn city employees are giving up their Nokia phones in solidarity with the soon to be unemployed Bochum residents. https://www.thelocal.de/20080123/10191 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:54:00 +0100 10191 15,000 protest Nokia https://www.thelocal.de/20080122/10209 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:00:00 +0100 10209 Nokia’s closure of its German production plant in Bochum, a city in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and subsequent move of its production to Romania might have been in part caused by the Romanian region’s use of subsidies from European Regional Development Fund to attract Nokia. The new production plant in Romania is expected to produce mobile phones at a fraction of what production cost in Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20080118/10107 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:22:00 +0100 10107