MUNICH (DPA, CONVERSEER) – The German robotics and automation industry expects its turnover to slump by 10% to €14.5 billion (about $16.5 billion) in the current year. “The growth outlook for all sub-sectors is currently gloomy until the end of the year,” said Dietmar Ley from Germany’s Robotics and Automation Association (VDMA) on Monday. US tariffs…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – The president of the German-Israeli Society in Berlin has strongly criticized the far-right members of Israel’s government for comments he says amount to calls for “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza. “My job to defend Israel is becoming more and more difficult because there are voices in the Israeli government which are totally…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Volkswagen (VW) is offering to make large-scale investments in the United States to ward off high tariffs on its imported vehicles, according to chief executive Oliver Blume. “The Volkswagen group aims to invest more in the US,” Blume told Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung daily in remarks published on Friday. VW already employs…
DÜSSELDORF (CONVERSEER) – The suspect in the recent attack in the western German city of Bielefeld is to be brought before a magistrate on Tuesday, authorities have said, as investigators continued to search for a motive. According to dpa, the 35-year-old, a Syrian national from nearby Harsewinkel, was detained late on Monday near Düsseldorf and…
MUNICH (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Far-right extremists from Germany’s Identitarian Movement have left flyers containing anti-immigrant messages at schools across the country. Authorities have reported incidents at schools in the southern states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, while others have occurred in northern Germany according to media reports. The Bavarian Culture Ministry said flyers were distributed at…
