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The Week in Germany
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Copenhagen - Every Nation Must Do Its Bit |
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Two weeks to save the world. The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen has started. The focus of deliberations over the next 12 days will be on putting together an agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol when it expires at the end of 2012. Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected on December 17. |
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Germany Will Review Contribution After London Afghanistan Conference |
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Ambassador Scharioth: "We will now discuss the details of the joint effort with our American friends and other Alliance partners. The Afghanistan Conference taking place in London at the end of January will more precisely establish the objectives and tasks." |
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Filmmaker Michael Verhoeven Receives Visionary Award |
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Award-winning German filmmaker Michael Verhoeven was given the Visionary Award of the Washington Jewish Film Festival. Ambassador Scharioth, who said Verhoeven is an indispensable voice in modern German cinema at the award ceremony, hosted a special dinner in honor of the occasion. |
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Europe's Largest Jewish Cemetery to be Restored |
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A major renovation effort is underway at Europe's largest Jewish cemetery located in Berlin's Weissensee area. The cemetery, a testament to Germany's Jewish heritage, is also applying for UNESCO status. |
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Current Affairs |
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With Lisbon Treaty in Effect, Europe Reorganizes |
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At their first meeting since the Treaty of Lisbon came into effect, the heads of state and government of the European Union are discussing how the EU Council is to be organized in future. They want to consider carefully how they can best put the provisions of the treaty into practice. |
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Westerwelle Meets with Exec. Dir. of American Jewish Committee |
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Shared concern over the Iranian nuclear program was the main focus of talks between Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and David Harris, Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee, in Berlin. |
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General Scowcroft Honored as Steadfast Friend of Germany |
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In presenting the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany to General Scowcroft, Ambassador Scharioth highlighted General Scowcroft’s role during the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, when he was national security advisor to US President George H. W. Bush. |
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Business, Technology and the Environment |
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Scientists in Patagonia Document Land Rising as Glaciers Melt Away |
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Scientists at the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden have discovered that land actually is rising in the Patagonian ice field at the southern tip of South America as the glaciers that once weighed it down melt away. |
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A Transatlantic Perspective on Climate Change and Energy Policy Presented by the German Embassy and Johns Hopkins University |
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A series of three policy workshops, bringing together German and U.S. experts in the climate and energy field, were hosted by the German Embassy and Johns Hopkins University in the run up to the international climate talks in Copenhagen. |
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2009 Helmut Schmidt Prize for German-American Economic History Awarded to Richard H. Tilly |
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Chicago-born Richard H. Tilly, an economic historian at the University of Münster and an important advocate of the mid-20th-century "New Economic History", has won a prestigious academic prize from the German Historical Institute in Washington. |
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Culture and Lifestyle |
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Germany's Space for Art on the Lower East Side |
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At Ludlow 38 the Goethe-Institut's exhibition space on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the mission is as much about introducing German concepts for presenting art as it is about bringing German art to New York. |
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Where the Blue Rider Leaves You Breathless |
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Beyond the first bloom of romantic love, the closest I have come to a state of pure rapture was when I stepped across the threshold of the Lenbachhaus. |
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Archaeologists Reveal Major Find in Ancient City of Troy |
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Excavations by German archeologists at the ancient city of Troy have revealed that the site may be also be a treasure trove of artefacts from even older societies. |
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Advent Calendar "Christmas Village" |
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Our interactive Advent calendar for 2009 welcomes you into a Christmas village, where a grand Christmas tree, a traditional German Christmas market and games, music, and recipes will help you count down the days until the holiday. Christmas at Germany.info is now in full-swing! |
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About "The Week in Germany" |
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