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Compiled on November 27, 2013, 05:31 PM CET |
COALITION DEAL Merkel Reaches Agreement on Next Government Weeks of talks ended early Wednesday morning with a contract between Angela Merkel's conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats to form Germany's next government. The deal still faces a difficult vote by all SPD members in December. |
GRAND COALITION Having Their Cake and Eating It Too Angela Merkel's incoming government is promising a little something for everyone, but it will all come at a price of billions. Those costs are likely to be fobbed off on either the next government or generation. |
LAND GRAB Foreign Firms Drive Cambodians from Farms Each year, foreign agricultural corporations deprive thousands of Cambodian farmers of their fields -- with the government's help. Human rights groups claim German taxpayer money is used to fund a program that benefits land grabbers. |
REVISED EVIDENCE States Make New Push to Ban Far-Right NPD A group of German lawyers and politicians is assembling a case that could make the far-right populist National Democratic Party history. But the German secret service's long history of infiltrating the party could scuttle their arguments. |
CLIMATE PROGRESS Warsaw's Meaningful Compromise Although the UN Climate Change Conference in Warsaw yielded few significant benchmarks, one initiative to compensate poor countries faced with disasters could have major implications for the future. |
LIVING LARGE ON A LITTLE Campgrounds Go Residential in Germany An increasing number of people are moving to German campgrounds permanently to save money. The little communities of motorhomes and trailers offer a comfortable yet affordable lifestyle that residents say they couldn't find elsewhere. |
PICTURE THIS A Touch of Frost |