Latest Germany Headlines
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Deadly Winter Storm Blasts Europe with Heavy Snow and Winds
Jan 9 2019 // Deadly winter weather blasted Europe for yet another day Tuesday, trapping hundreds of people in Alpine regions, whipping up high winds that caused flight cancellations and increasing the risks of more deadly...
Containers Carrying Hazardous Materials Fall Off Cargo Ship Near Dutch Coast
Jan 4 2019 // Authorities in Germany and the Netherlands are searching for up to 270 shipping containers lost at sea by a cargo ship caught in a storm, saying some are carrying hazardous materials. German authorities say the cargo ship...
Competition in Artificial Intelligence Is Like New Space Race: Viewpoint
Jan 2 2019 // It’s been another year of relentless artificial-intelligence hype and incremental AI achievement. Machines still beat humans only in carefully constructed environments or at narrow tasks. The good news is that, as...
German Firms Warned About Rising Threat from Chinese Hackers: Report
Dec 19 2018 // Germany’s Office for Information Security (BSI) has issued warnings to several German firms named by the United States as possible victims of hacking attacks, a newspaper reported, adding that Chinese activity...
Global Anger Finally Seems to Be Getting China to Open Up Markets: Viewpoint
Dec 18 2018 // Forty years after China began opening itself up to the outside world, the country increasingly seems to be closed for business. A large and growing contingent of the global business community is convinced that China will...
Sweden’s Wildfires Highlight Cost of Rapidly Changing Climate in Europe
Dec 12 2018 // Hannele Arvonen, the owner of one of Sweden’s largest lumber yards, is spending the winter months planning for a new and unexpected threat to her business: regular wildfires raging just south of the Arctic...
China’s Ping An Invests $47M in German Fintech Incubator Finleap
Nov 19 2018 // Ping An Insurance Group Co., China’s biggest insurer by market value, led investors in injecting 41.5 million euros ($47 million) into Germany’s Finleap GmbH in its latest round of funding. The Chinese...
Markel’s German Insurance Unit Gets Approval to Operate UK Branch
Nov 12 2018 // Markel Corp. announced that its German insurance company, Markel Insurance SE (MISE), has received regulatory approval to operate a branch office in the UK. MISE was established to meet the insurance needs of clients...
Final Insured Loss for Germany-Austria’s Storm Herwart Rises to €264M: PERILS
Oct 30 2018 // The final estimate of insured property losses for Extratropical Cyclone Herwart, which primarily affected Austria and Germany on Oct. 29, 2017, is €264 million (US$300.6 million), according to PERILS, the independent...
VW’s Audi Unit Slapped with $925M Fine in Germany over Emissions Scandal
Oct 17 2018 // Volkswagen AG’s Audi unit agreed to pay an 800 million-euro ($926 million) fine for its role in the diesel-cheating scandal that has disrupted the car industry for more than three years and landed Audi’s...
Google+ Breach Under Investigation in U.S., EU
Oct 10 2018 // At least two U.S. states and two European Union member states are investigating a breach at Alphabet Inc.’s Google that may have exposed private profile data of at least 500,000 users to hundreds of external...
Final Insured Loss for Germany’s Cyclone Xavier in 2017 Estimated at €324M: PERILS
Oct 5 2018 // The final insured property market losses for Extratropical Cyclone Xavier, based on loss data collected from affected insurers, is €324 million ($372.5 million), according to estimates issued by PERILS, the independent...
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Opens Munich Office; Names Key Underwriters
Sep 18 2018 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has opened a new office in Munich, Germany, the latest advance in BHSI’s expansion of its global footprint. The insurer has named two key underwriters for the office. The...
Thomas Miller to Acquire Germany’s Zeller Associates’ MGA, Insurance Operations
Sep 17 2018 // London-based insurance provider Thomas Miller reports it has agreed to purchase the managing general agency and insurance services operations of Zeller Associates, a shipping, trade and transport insurance specialist based...
German Court Postpones Key Case on YouTube Liability to Obtain EU Opinion
Sep 14 2018 // Germany’s highest court has postponed a decision on whether YouTube is liable for violations of intellectual property rights on its video platform in order to seek the opinion of European Union judges, a process...
Survey Finds Cyber Crimes Cost German Businesses $50 Billion
Sep 14 2018 // Two thirds of Germany’s manufacturers have been hit by cyber-crime attacks, costing industry in Europe’s largest economy some 43 billion euros ($50 billion), according to a survey published by Germany’s...
German Consumer Agency to Seek Damages Against Volkswagen Over Diesel Tests
Sep 12 2018 // Volkswagen will face another class action lawsuit over its rigging of diesel emissions tests, this time at home when Germany introduces a new law in November. State-financed consumer protection organization vzbv said on...
German Officials Worried About Foreign ‘Cyber Bombs’ Against Companies
Sep 6 2018 // A growing number of countries can hack into private computer networks and install malicious software to sabotage another country’s infrastructure, Germany’s domestic spy chief said on Tuesday. China, Russia and...
Germany Echoes UK Concerns over Post-Brexit Risk to Insurance, Derivative Contracts
Aug 30 2018 // European Union and U.K. authorities must agree on a political solution to the threat Brexit poses to trillions of dollars in derivatives and insurance contracts, according to Germany’s top financial regulator. Felix...
Germany Wildfire Southwest of Berlin Detonates Buried WWII Ammunition
Aug 27 2018 // Firefighters struggled Friday to tame a wildfire southwest of Berlin but had to maneuver carefully as the blaze set off old World War II ammunition that is still buried in the forests around the German capital. Flames...
