Posts Tagged ‘Spiegel’

Al Qaeda targets Germans, Britons in Libya: Spiegel

BERLIN (Reuters) – Al Qaeda is plotting to kidnap German and British citizens in Libya, the Spiegel weekly magazine quoted German intelligence sources as saying. Germany and Britain were among several Western countries to urge their nationals to leave the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday, days after a deadly attack by Islamist militants [...]

ECB’s Draghi backs Schaeuble’s “currency commissioner”: Spiegel

BERLIN (Reuters) – European Central Bank Chief Mario Draghi has thrown his weight behind a proposal by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble to radically expand the powers of the European Union's monetary affairs commissioner. In an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel four days after defending his bond-purchase program in the country's lower house of [...]

RWE seeks German redress over wind farm delay: Spiegel

BERLIN (Reuters) – RWE AG , Germany’s second-biggest utility, is seeking compensation from the federal government as its offshore wind farm project faces “further massive delays,” Der Spiegel reported on Sunday, citing the company’s new CEO. Efforts to link RWE’s so-called Nordsee Ost wind farm in northwestern Germany to the main electricity network keep running [...]