Baden-Wuerttemberg

This is what the police union is demanding after the latest blockade at a Green Party meeting in Baden-Wuerttemberg – The police officers’ demand also finds several politicians in agreement

Angela Merkel's conservatives were heaving a sigh of relief on June 7 after a convincing win in the last regional vote before a general election that also exposed the weaknesses of the Green party, their main rival at the national level.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party was in crisis mode on March 15 after suffering heavy losses in two regional polls, seen as a rebuke of its pandemic management six months before a general election.

The operation of the BMW, Daimler, Audi and Porsche car manufacturing plants has stalled in Germany over a round-the-clock warning strike organized by the IG Metall trade union to pressure employers for a higher salary, local media reported on Friday.

A German town’s summer fair turned violent over the weekend, with multiple sexual assaults reported. A group of youths also attacked visitors and officers, with police stating that many of the offenders were migrants.

A nationalist, anti-migration party powered into three German state legislatures in elections on March 13 held amid divisions over Chancellor Angela Merkel's liberal approach to the refugee crisis. Merkel's conservatives lost to center-left rivals in two states they had hoped to win.

The refugee crisis is haunting Europe! We can see it in the faces of political leaders who parade in front of our TV screens, looking particularly anxious as a heap of problems which accumulated over recent years have now reached a point of implosion, challenging even their own so far undisputed leadership. 

BERLIN - Peter Friedrich, Baden-Wuerttemberg's minister for the Bundesrat, Europe and International Affairs in the Bundesrat (Federal Council), has said that Serbia plays a crucial role in stabilization of the Balkans, adding that Belgrade has to work at full speed on normalization of relations with Pristina.

BELGRADE - Over 100 companies based in Baden-Wuerttemberg have good experience of doing business in Serbia, and many others are interested in investing in the country, President of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce (PKS) Marko Cadez said on Wednesday.

STUTTGART - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met with representatives of German firms interested in investing in Serbia during a business meeting in Stuttgart on Wednesday.

The business conference, titled "Think New Opportunities, Think Serbia," was opened by Minister for the Bundesrat, Europe and International Affairs in Baden-Wuerttemberg Peter Friedrich.