The 'in' kitchen is white, minimalist, and German — think Poggenpohl — an impossible design to fashion out of an older, traditional kitchen, Mendez says. [read post]

Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, and copied to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde and Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado Mendez, Secretary Geithner said that the current draft of the AIFM Directive would discriminate against U.S. and other foreign funds and fund managers by denying them the opportunity to access the EU single market through a passport approach, which would be an avenue open solely to EU funds and… [read post]

  The Harrisburg City Controller recently met with representatives of a German bank to discuss the city’s mounting budget deficit, which is now up to $7,000,000. [read post]

Likewise, a New York appellate court read an exception for activity that "creates a material conflict of interest related to the employer's trade secrets, proprietary information or other proprietary or business interest" as allowing the German National Tourist Office to fire an employee for becoming known as the translator of some Holocaust revisionist articles.[17] Presumably the court's view was that the activity could lead to public hostility to the office, and that… [read post]