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Beer, Euro 2024, and all those cups – what’s going on?

29Jun

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Beer, Euro 2024, and all those cups – what’s going on?

Follow live coverage of Switzerland vs Italy and Germany vs Denmark at Euro 2024 todayThe European Championship has been drenched in beer. In the fan zones and outside the stadiums. On the concourses and in the stands.Everyone has been drenched. Fans, players and, much to the amusement of everyone not wearing a lanyard, journalists, who have been sheltering laptops and walking into press conferences dripping with booze.Get the tiny violins. Possibly a towel.We do need to talk about the plastic cups, which have been cascading down from the stands towards anyone taking a corner or goal kick.The beer first, though.The official sponsor of the tournament is Bitburger, the German brewer, and the concourse bars are exclusively stocked with their products. For matches at the Allianz Arena, for in...

IHG signs agreement to double presence in Germany – Business Traveller

16Apr

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IHG signs agreement to double presence in Germany – Business Traveller

IHG Hotels & Resorts is set to double its presence in Germany to more than 200 hotels in almost 100 cities. The hotel group has signed a 30-year agreement with NOVUM Hospitality, one of Germany’s largest private hotel operators. NOVUM Hospitality operates 111 properties are in Germany, with the remaining eight in Austria, the Netherlands and the UK. The agreement will see 108 of NOVUM’s hotels and an additional 11 under development join IHG’s system by 2028. The conversion of these hotels will begin this year and happen in phases, with the hotel group stating that the majority will take place over the next 24 months. Ultimately, this will increase IHG’s global system size by up to 1.9 per cent. As part of the agreement, IHG’s Holiday Inn will be combined with NOVUM’s ‘the niu’ brand,...

Volkswagen’s Elusive Quest to Make an EV for the Masses

31Dec

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Volkswagen’s Elusive Quest to Make an EV for the Masses

Updated Dec. 31, 2023 12:19 am ETBERLIN—Almost a decade ago, Volkswagen set out on an expensive quest to dominate the new world of software-defined cars and build the electric “people’s car.” It is still trying. The German automaker has invested billions of euros, retooled entire plants and created new software and battery companies to assist in making the transition. However, VW has yet to produce an EV that has matched the success of its historic gas-powered models such as the Beetle and the Golf in its core markets. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Worldwide, 2024 Elections Promise a Whirlwind

28Dec

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Worldwide, 2024 Elections Promise a Whirlwind

Dec. 28, 2023 12:49 pm ETIt’s (almost) election year, baby! Every year is important in its way, and most elections matter to someone. Even so, 2024 promises to be unusually electorally exciting due to the sheer amount of voting across the democratic world—and over what issues.What seems likely to be an awful U.S. presidential election in November is only part of the story. Hyperventilation about Donald Trump’s supposedly authoritarian instincts and well-founded concerns over Biden family corruption will motivate the major parties’ bases. But don’t lose sight of the global significance of this contest, given the security and economic threats and challenges confronting the winner. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 ...

Qatar Airways adds fifth destination in Germany – Business Traveller

27Dec

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Qatar Airways adds fifth destination in Germany – Business Traveller

Oneworld member Qatar Airways has announced another round of network and capacity expansion. From July, the airline will launch flights from its Doha hub to Hamburg, Germany. Hamburg will be Qatar Airways’ fifth destination in Germany, following Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin and Dusseldorf. Moreover, from June, Qatar Airways will return to Venice. Venice is expected to see high demand from passengers from Japan, China and Australia, while Hamburg will serve as a gateway to South Africa, Thailand and the Philippines, the airline said. Venice will be served daily from 12 June, with flights departing Doha at 0900 and arriving 1420 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The return flights depart the Italian city at 1650 and arrive back into Doha same day at 2...

First World War Christmas truce: How much football was actually played?

27Dec

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First World War Christmas truce: How much football was actually played?

It’s one of the best-known stories about the First World War: the Christmas truce of 1914, when soldiers from both sides spontaneously laid down their guns and, for a few hours at least, acted as if they weren’t trying to wipe each other out in a cruelly pointless war.Part of the story was the football match that broke out in No Man’s land. The image of the two sides uniting, in a manner of speaking, over the common language of sport became incredibly evocative, a slice of normality amidst the horror.It’s gone down in English mythology, encouraged by appearances in various elements of culture, from art to history books to things such as the TV comedy Blackadder. “Remember it? I was never offside, I could not believe that decision…” the titular character says when asked if he recalled the ...

Trump as Dictator Is a Classic Case of Projection

11Dec

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Trump as Dictator Is a Classic Case of Projection

If you haven’t heard, Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans are planning a coup. “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable,” Robert Kagan, an editor at large at the Washington Post, writes in a recent 6,000-word essay that compares America’s fractious democracy with Weimar Germany.Budding opinion writers are instructed not to draw inapt comparisons to Hitler, yet Mr. Trump’s opponents are casting aside such conventions in much the same way they’re jettisoning political and legal ones. Only by convincing themselves that Mr. Trump threatens the existence of the republic can they justify their own weaponization of government to stop him. “When a marauder is crashing through your house, you throw everything you can at him—pots, pans, candlesticks—in the hope of slowing him down and tri...

German Industrial Production Contracted Unexpectedly in October

7Dec

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German Industrial Production Contracted Unexpectedly in October

Germany’s industrial production fell unexpectedly in October, and for a fifth-straight month, a further sign of the deteriorating environment in the key manufacturing base of Europe’s largest economy.Output dipped 0.4% compared with the previous month, seasonally and on a calendar-adjusted basis, from a 1.3% decline in September, according to data published Thursday by German statistics office Destatis.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

4Dec

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Around the World With Henry Kissinger

Getting to know Henry Kissinger was a wonderful bonus of serving in the U.S. Senate. Some of the most memorable times I had with him were when he traveled with John McCain and me to the annual security conference in Munich. On one overnight flight, John and I peppered Henry with questions about his peace efforts in the Mideast, the opening with China, ending the Vietnam War and reducing tensions with the Soviet Union.Sunlight spilling in through the plane’s windows awakened me the next morning, and as a religiously observant Jew, I put on my tallit (prayer shawl) and tefillin (small black leather boxes containing excerpts from the Bible that are worn on the head and arms) and said my prayers. When I finished, I was surprised to hear Henry’s sonorous voice: “You know, Joe, I was raised rel...

Evan Gershkovich, Detained for 250 Days, Is Still Bringing His Friends Together

4Dec

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Evan Gershkovich, Detained for 250 Days, Is Still Bringing His Friends Together

Listen to article(1 minute)At least once a day, every day, for the past 250 days, Polina Ivanova is overcome with the troubling thought of Evan Gershkovich staring at the wall of his prison cell.Ivanova, a Russia correspondent for the Financial Times, will be enjoying a meal with friends in Berlin, watching the sunset or traveling to a new city. Then the image creeps in of her close friend, whose view of the world has seldom stretched physically beyond the confines of his cell at Lefortovo prison in Moscow since the early spring.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8