Germany's breweries have allegedly been conspiring to fix beer prices for the past 20 years in a scandal more widespread than initially thought, a report has revealed. They could now face hundreds of millions of euros in fines.
The Vatican on Friday named a German financier as the new head of its scandal-hit bank, saying he would help overhaul the secretive institution to comply with anti money laundering rules.
Following the <a href="https://brainlynet3.netlify.app/politics/20120217-40809.html" target="_blank">resignation of President Christian Wulff</a> amid accusations of impropriety, The Local decided to look at post-war Germany's biggest political scandals.
German President Christian Wulff said Wednesday he will submit to a TV interview on the spiralling loan scandal threatening to engulf him. The interview will be aired the same evening.
German President Christian Wulff gave a public apology Thursday for the personal finance scandal that has hounded him. But as <b>The Local’s media roundup</b> finds, most pundits think the speech was too little too late.
Just nine months before the state election, the Christian Democratic Union in Schleswig-Holstein has decided on a new leadership duo after the party leader and top candidate resigned over a love affair with a teenager.
A senior MP from Angela Merkel’s conservatives has admitted he is an alcoholic and checked himself in for treatment after fleeing the scene of a minor car accident on Saturday night.
A court in Augsburg on Wednesday sentenced Karlheinz Schreiber, an arms dealer who was a key player in a party funding scandal that helped propel Chancellor Angela Merkel to power, to eight years in prison.
Arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber went on trial in Augsburg on Monday for tax evasion, fraud and bribery. Extradited from Canada, he is a key figure in slush fund scandal involving Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democrats.
Germany's federal ministries have consulted external companies for drafting laws some 60 times since 2000, daily <i>Saarbrücker Zeitung</i> reported on Wednesday.
The government budgetary committee has opted not to have Germany’s Federal Court of Auditors review Health Minister Ulla Schmidt’s controversial use of her official car while on holiday in Spain.
