The Federal Network Agency renounced the use of a decommissioned nuclear power plant as a reserve for possible power shortages in winter. This is not necessary for the stability of grid operations, said the authority in Berlin. In extreme situations, the power plant should be used 3 in Mannheim, the two power plant in Mainz-Wiesbaden, Block C of the coal-fired power plant in Ensdorf and the power plant in Munich as a free man called cold reserve. Also, the petroleum refinery in Karlsruhe Upper Rhine could be used as a location, said the authority.
So spare capacity available in the amount of 1009 MW is available. The president of the authority, Matthias Kurth, assured the same time: "If we get a mild winter will probably have to run not one of these power plants." Moreover, additional services may also reserve in Austria with a capacity of 1075 MW are used.
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Kurth still sees risks to security of supply
According to Kurth, there is yet no reason to give the all clear. "Is beyond dispute that remain with the arrangement of the reserve operation still risks to the security of supply," he said. A complete hedge "against any risk" was "technically and economically impossible." Especially in southern Germany, the situation will not change until 2014. The newly established reserve capacity should remain available after 2013. "We should not constantly back off a bit before we switch something," said Kurth. He pleaded for the North Rhine-Westphalia dates the power plant units 1-3 and finish weiterzubetreiben block 4. Also, the Hessian of the Staudinger power plant should actually planned closure date of 31 December 2012 and operated as a reserve.
Federal Economics Minister Philipp Rösler (FDP) provides the power with the decision of the Federal Network Agency secured. This is "an important signal for the companies that they can rely on in the coming winter on a secure supply of electricity," said Roesler.
Required after the politically enforced shutdown of eight of the 17 nuclear power plants until the first September will decide which additional power plants must be kept in reserve. The Agency and the nuclear power plant operators had warned that it could come after the shutdown of nuclear reactors, especially in southern Germany to bottlenecks in the power supply, because there, the current demand by the booming economy is particularly high.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Libya: Transitional Council wants elections in eight months
The head of the National Transitional Council of the Libyan rebels announced elections in eight months after the fall of rulers Moammar Gadhafi. The Italian newspaper "La Repubblica" said Mustafa Abdel Dschalil, there will be parliamentary and presidential elections. Wanted are a "democratic government" and a "just constitution."
Dschalil clarified so that a schedule that he had first submitted a week ago. He stressed that the "new Libya" should be different from the past and will be built on the "principles of liberty, equality and fraternity".
"Fair process" announced
Gaddafi himself is said to be made according Dschalil in the country a "fair trial". This should include the mourners It should be "captured alive" and treated differently, as Gaddafi had dealt with his opponents. The longtime ruler is sought on arrest warrants since June for alleged crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
In the capital Tripoli and other places of the country took to the fighting between government forces and insurgents. They fought battles in Tripoli near the international airport and in the southwestern suburb of Al-al-Hadaba Chadra, as the rebels announced.
There were also exchanges of fire in the south of the city by the Bab al Asisija military complex, where there is also Gaddafi's residence. Rebels had captured the power center of the long-time dictator and the international airport of the city on Tuesday.
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Foreign journalists detained
In a hotel in Tripoli, Gaddafi supporters seem determined to keep a number of foreign journalists. Reporters from CNN and BBC reported that they were prevented from leaving the "Rixos". It reigns great nervousness among colleagues, said BBC reporter Matthew Price. A cameraman for the British broadcaster ITN had been threatened with a machine gun. "It is clear that we can not voluntarily leave the hotel." The Reuters reporter said Missy Ryan, food and water were scarce.
According to the insurgents fired at Gaddafi's troops at night the city Misrata with Scud missiles. These were fired from Gaddafi's home town of Sirte out, said the military council of the rebels in Misrata. Meanwhile, the insurgents moved from the west and east coastal city of Sirte on the front.
New Audio Messages
Where Qaddafi is staying even is still not known. He even signed up at night with two audio messages have their say. In it, he reiterated that he would to the victory over the rebels, or fight on until his death.
The withdrawal of his residence he called a "tactical maneuver". The government complex in Tripoli was after more than 60 NATO air strikes destroyed completely, said Gadhafi.
At the same time he tried to give the impression that he is still staying in the capital. He go "walk undetected without the people see me," he said. He had not gained the impression that the city was in danger.
Russia speaks of "dual power"
According to the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev exists in Libya is now a dual power. At a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said Medvedev, Gaddafi's military potential was not yet exhausted.
Regardless of the minister wants a part of the transitional government is already moving from the Aufständischenhochburg Benghazi in the capital. These included the Minister of Oil and communication as well as for the interior, Defence and the Ministry of Health.
Transitional turns to reconstruction
The head of the transitional government, Mahmoud Jibril, announced today at an international conference in Doha, should be considered at the above relief funds for the Libyan people. The conference therefore take part in the U.S., France, Great Britain, Italy, Turkey, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
The aim of the meeting it was "before the end of Ramadan to collect $ 2.5 billion (1.7 billion euros) for the National Transitional Council to ensure that the salaries paid to the Libyans," and could help people in need.
Dschalil clarified so that a schedule that he had first submitted a week ago. He stressed that the "new Libya" should be different from the past and will be built on the "principles of liberty, equality and fraternity".
"Fair process" announced
Gaddafi himself is said to be made according Dschalil in the country a "fair trial". This should include the mourners It should be "captured alive" and treated differently, as Gaddafi had dealt with his opponents. The longtime ruler is sought on arrest warrants since June for alleged crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
In the capital Tripoli and other places of the country took to the fighting between government forces and insurgents. They fought battles in Tripoli near the international airport and in the southwestern suburb of Al-al-Hadaba Chadra, as the rebels announced.
There were also exchanges of fire in the south of the city by the Bab al Asisija military complex, where there is also Gaddafi's residence. Rebels had captured the power center of the long-time dictator and the international airport of the city on Tuesday.
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Foreign journalists detained
In a hotel in Tripoli, Gaddafi supporters seem determined to keep a number of foreign journalists. Reporters from CNN and BBC reported that they were prevented from leaving the "Rixos". It reigns great nervousness among colleagues, said BBC reporter Matthew Price. A cameraman for the British broadcaster ITN had been threatened with a machine gun. "It is clear that we can not voluntarily leave the hotel." The Reuters reporter said Missy Ryan, food and water were scarce.
According to the insurgents fired at Gaddafi's troops at night the city Misrata with Scud missiles. These were fired from Gaddafi's home town of Sirte out, said the military council of the rebels in Misrata. Meanwhile, the insurgents moved from the west and east coastal city of Sirte on the front.
New Audio Messages
Where Qaddafi is staying even is still not known. He even signed up at night with two audio messages have their say. In it, he reiterated that he would to the victory over the rebels, or fight on until his death.
The withdrawal of his residence he called a "tactical maneuver". The government complex in Tripoli was after more than 60 NATO air strikes destroyed completely, said Gadhafi.
At the same time he tried to give the impression that he is still staying in the capital. He go "walk undetected without the people see me," he said. He had not gained the impression that the city was in danger.
Russia speaks of "dual power"
According to the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev exists in Libya is now a dual power. At a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said Medvedev, Gaddafi's military potential was not yet exhausted.
Regardless of the minister wants a part of the transitional government is already moving from the Aufständischenhochburg Benghazi in the capital. These included the Minister of Oil and communication as well as for the interior, Defence and the Ministry of Health.
Transitional turns to reconstruction
The head of the transitional government, Mahmoud Jibril, announced today at an international conference in Doha, should be considered at the above relief funds for the Libyan people. The conference therefore take part in the U.S., France, Great Britain, Italy, Turkey, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
The aim of the meeting it was "before the end of Ramadan to collect $ 2.5 billion (1.7 billion euros) for the National Transitional Council to ensure that the salaries paid to the Libyans," and could help people in need.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
USA: President of Standard & Poor's resigns
At the head of the U.S. rating agency Standard & Poor's, there is a change: The incumbent President Deven Sharma since 2007, will chair the 12th of his September vacate and make room for Douglas Peterson, said S & P. Peterson was previously managing director of Citibank.
Douglas Peterson replaced by Citibank to the top of S & P.
The change in S & P follows a few weeks after the spectacular decision of the agency, downgraded the credit of the United States. The "Financial Times" reported, citing insiders, the departure of Sharma to stand in no relation. Even the reports of investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice against the rating agency in the wake of the mortgage crisis had not been decisive for the resignation.
S & P announced the company was looking for since late last year after a new boss. Sharma will participate until his final retirement at the end of the year on the strategic direction of the S & P's parent company McGraw-Hill.
Obama: We will always remain a land-AAA
Following the downgrade of U.S. credit, President Obama is confident. In a speech he urged the strength of the U.S. economy. The problems were "solved". It was important to end the political impasse and to resolve the long-known problem of debt.
Barack Obama did not like the rating agency Standard & Poor's (S & P) criticize not so frontally, as had Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner at the weekend. The president knows that he had been warned long enough - and that he had used this warning in the last battle with the Republicans as leverage.
But that their valuation is not the measure of all things, he also turned out: Yes, S & P's credit of the United States had downgraded, but the market continues to believe that the status is a AAA.
Deficit problem is not new
"Warren Buffet, who knows one or two things about financial markets, has even said that if there was a quadruple A, then I would give the United States that," Obama said. He and most investors would see the world the same way. "Fact: We did not need a rating agency to tell us that we need a balanced approach to our deficit problem," stressed the President.
The fact was already the case, when he came into office in the early 2009. You need the Agency does not even know about, that the current political culture in Washington had little to inspire confidence, it is Obama. It should not go on like this, that some "not the good of the country in the forefront, but its ideological boundaries."
Six Democrats and six Republicans in the super-committee
So the president, the two Congress parties urged to send in flexible politician and consensus in those super-commission to come up to the end of November with binding proposals to reduce debt. Republicans and Democrats must nominate six of their number. Still no names are fixed.
"We are operating in tough times, but here's the good news. Our problems are solvable," said Obama continued. The problem lies not in the confidence in the creditworthiness. The markets have shown today that the U.S. government bonds were among the safest in the world. "Our challenge is to our long-term debt and budget deficits to address," he said.
The U.S. must now spending cuts already adopted by two additional steps to connect: a Tax Reform, in which were contributing their share of those who can afford it. And careful adjustments including Medicare, the government health insurance for the elderly.
Losses on the U.S. exchanges
While Barack Obama spoke to the television cameras, Dow Jones and NASDAQ to the New York Stock Exchange tumbled further into the depths: they were temporary 4.8 percent and six percent in the red over the closing price on Friday.
But the president gave himself unperturbed: there will always be economic factors that the U.S. could not control: earthquakes, eruptions in oil prices, poor economic developments in other parts of the world. "But it's up to us how we respond," said Obama. "We are the United States of America, and no matter what some agencies say: We've always been a AAA country and we will always remain so."
Douglas Peterson replaced by Citibank to the top of S & P.
The change in S & P follows a few weeks after the spectacular decision of the agency, downgraded the credit of the United States. The "Financial Times" reported, citing insiders, the departure of Sharma to stand in no relation. Even the reports of investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice against the rating agency in the wake of the mortgage crisis had not been decisive for the resignation.
S & P announced the company was looking for since late last year after a new boss. Sharma will participate until his final retirement at the end of the year on the strategic direction of the S & P's parent company McGraw-Hill.
Obama: We will always remain a land-AAA
Following the downgrade of U.S. credit, President Obama is confident. In a speech he urged the strength of the U.S. economy. The problems were "solved". It was important to end the political impasse and to resolve the long-known problem of debt.
Barack Obama did not like the rating agency Standard & Poor's (S & P) criticize not so frontally, as had Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner at the weekend. The president knows that he had been warned long enough - and that he had used this warning in the last battle with the Republicans as leverage.
But that their valuation is not the measure of all things, he also turned out: Yes, S & P's credit of the United States had downgraded, but the market continues to believe that the status is a AAA.
Deficit problem is not new
"Warren Buffet, who knows one or two things about financial markets, has even said that if there was a quadruple A, then I would give the United States that," Obama said. He and most investors would see the world the same way. "Fact: We did not need a rating agency to tell us that we need a balanced approach to our deficit problem," stressed the President.
The fact was already the case, when he came into office in the early 2009. You need the Agency does not even know about, that the current political culture in Washington had little to inspire confidence, it is Obama. It should not go on like this, that some "not the good of the country in the forefront, but its ideological boundaries."
Six Democrats and six Republicans in the super-committee
So the president, the two Congress parties urged to send in flexible politician and consensus in those super-commission to come up to the end of November with binding proposals to reduce debt. Republicans and Democrats must nominate six of their number. Still no names are fixed.
"We are operating in tough times, but here's the good news. Our problems are solvable," said Obama continued. The problem lies not in the confidence in the creditworthiness. The markets have shown today that the U.S. government bonds were among the safest in the world. "Our challenge is to our long-term debt and budget deficits to address," he said.
The U.S. must now spending cuts already adopted by two additional steps to connect: a Tax Reform, in which were contributing their share of those who can afford it. And careful adjustments including Medicare, the government health insurance for the elderly.
Losses on the U.S. exchanges
While Barack Obama spoke to the television cameras, Dow Jones and NASDAQ to the New York Stock Exchange tumbled further into the depths: they were temporary 4.8 percent and six percent in the red over the closing price on Friday.
But the president gave himself unperturbed: there will always be economic factors that the U.S. could not control: earthquakes, eruptions in oil prices, poor economic developments in other parts of the world. "But it's up to us how we respond," said Obama. "We are the United States of America, and no matter what some agencies say: We've always been a AAA country and we will always remain so."
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
German Idol - winner Pietro Lombardi and Sarah are engaged Engels
When the first American Idol ringing wedding bells?
Pietro Lombardi and Sarah Engels engaged. The 18-year-old told the now in her video shoot in Tenerife. Pietro would plunge immediately into the best married life. "That's what I always wanted," he told us. And when the first American Idol now ringing wedding bells?
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Pietro: "I was sure from the beginning, one hundred percent"
"Only for you" - in German "Just for You" - is the title of Sarah's second single. A good resolution for what it really was clear from the beginning. "He's the greatest man I've met in my life, so I let him go no more" tells us about Sarah happy. What to look for a lot of her life, Sarah has apparently found it with just 18 years ago: Peter, the love of her life. And the best part: she finds love in return. "I was beginning to one hundred percent sure that this is the woman with whom I want to grow old with and the later times I can walk around with a stick and say that I can, I still love you."
We are eager to know when to ring for both the wedding bells and we wish our American Idol dream team for the future.
Pietro Lombardi and Sarah Engels engaged. The 18-year-old told the now in her video shoot in Tenerife. Pietro would plunge immediately into the best married life. "That's what I always wanted," he told us. And when the first American Idol now ringing wedding bells?
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Note to God
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Pietro: "I was sure from the beginning, one hundred percent"
"Only for you" - in German "Just for You" - is the title of Sarah's second single. A good resolution for what it really was clear from the beginning. "He's the greatest man I've met in my life, so I let him go no more" tells us about Sarah happy. What to look for a lot of her life, Sarah has apparently found it with just 18 years ago: Peter, the love of her life. And the best part: she finds love in return. "I was beginning to one hundred percent sure that this is the woman with whom I want to grow old with and the later times I can walk around with a stick and say that I can, I still love you."
We are eager to know when to ring for both the wedding bells and we wish our American Idol dream team for the future.
India's government corruption scandal is under pressure
A bribery scandal involving mobile phone licenses in India, brings the government into trouble. A minister is already sitting in jail, now Prime Minister Singh had to agree to an investigation committee. The felt scared off foreign investors now.
New Delhi - It's about well-connected billionaires, and huge sums of bribes: a huge corruption scandal rocked India and brings the country's government increasingly under pressure. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had to give in to the penetration of the months-long opposition to a parliamentary committee of inquiry.
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The committee will work through the affair surrounding the awarding of cellular licenses. India went according to the Court on the disputed licensing up to $ 39 billion by the lobe.
The newspaper "The Hindu" said the biggest fraud in the history of India after independence. Spicy: Both government officials and very rich businessman allegedly involved in the case. The police already identified the former telecommunications minister. At the center of the scandal is the billionaire Anil Ambani, owner of the second-largest mobile phone company in the country, Reliance Communications.
The affair also casts a spotlight on the widespread corruption in India. The third largest economic power in Asia is dominated by several millionaires have, the accumulated wealth and power almost to the extent of Russian oligarchs. The current scandal exposes the close ties between business and politics in the country. Not infrequently, members give their business card on the back of their corporate address.
More and more citizens are suspicious of the entanglements, the judiciary checked by accurate, and critical media reports. Such was the interrogation of the billionaire Ambani at the Federal Police a big topic in the news. "The interrogation Ambanis would have been five or ten years, an impossibility," said the corruption expert of "The Hindu", Siddharth Varadarajan. A few years ago people would have admired business leaders in the country almost as heroes. "Now they combine economy with corruption like never before," he said.
Felt and bribery scandals are also for India becoming an economic problem. Because foreign investors are becoming concerned about the swamp and go back to the Indian market. The Indian stock market has been this year after about eleven percent, foreign direct investment shrank by as much as 27 percent.
New Delhi - It's about well-connected billionaires, and huge sums of bribes: a huge corruption scandal rocked India and brings the country's government increasingly under pressure. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had to give in to the penetration of the months-long opposition to a parliamentary committee of inquiry.
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The committee will work through the affair surrounding the awarding of cellular licenses. India went according to the Court on the disputed licensing up to $ 39 billion by the lobe.
The newspaper "The Hindu" said the biggest fraud in the history of India after independence. Spicy: Both government officials and very rich businessman allegedly involved in the case. The police already identified the former telecommunications minister. At the center of the scandal is the billionaire Anil Ambani, owner of the second-largest mobile phone company in the country, Reliance Communications.
The affair also casts a spotlight on the widespread corruption in India. The third largest economic power in Asia is dominated by several millionaires have, the accumulated wealth and power almost to the extent of Russian oligarchs. The current scandal exposes the close ties between business and politics in the country. Not infrequently, members give their business card on the back of their corporate address.
More and more citizens are suspicious of the entanglements, the judiciary checked by accurate, and critical media reports. Such was the interrogation of the billionaire Ambani at the Federal Police a big topic in the news. "The interrogation Ambanis would have been five or ten years, an impossibility," said the corruption expert of "The Hindu", Siddharth Varadarajan. A few years ago people would have admired business leaders in the country almost as heroes. "Now they combine economy with corruption like never before," he said.
Felt and bribery scandals are also for India becoming an economic problem. Because foreign investors are becoming concerned about the swamp and go back to the Indian market. The Indian stock market has been this year after about eleven percent, foreign direct investment shrank by as much as 27 percent.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Switzerland is always interested with Russian companies
They had served as a door opener: The first Russian company that came to Switzerland. Over the last five years, now their number doubled to around 200 in the country, almost, says Regula Spalinger, expert on Russian business activities in Switzerland.
He falls lions share of these activities on the natural resource industry running, but not less than three-quarters of all Russian oil exports via Switzerland.
The three heavyweights of the industry, Rosneft, and TNK-BP Bashneft meet in Geneva, Zurich and more land to train people from other industries who want to take entrepreneurial base in Switzerland.
These mainly included the areas of financial services, real estate, tourism and manufacturing, says Regula Spalinger. She is director of counseling communication platform between East and West, on the relationship between Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe is specialized.
"Over the last five years we have seen a strong development of a practical doubling of Russian activities in Switzerland," says Regula Spalinger swissinfo.ch.
The newly established companies would gradually change the stereotypical image that Russian business interests focused only on the raw materials.
Modernization
Exact numbers of Russian companies in the country is none. Neither does the federal government an official statistic, nor the cantons are willing to give the names of the companies established there.
The highest number is expected to accommodate up to 70 of the Canton of Geneva, followed by Lake Geneva, and Zurich train, is an estimate of communication between East and West.
Figure in the directories of the platform and the two Swiss Sulzer and Oerlikon industrial groups. 31% of Sulzer has long been considered a Russian investment company Renova. "
This is no coincidence: Swiss technology in Russia is much sought to modernize the local economy. On the one hand, the infrastructure requires urgent renovation, on the other hand, the dependence on oil and gas sector will be reduced. Switzerland has just been committed into an agreement to help Russia in its modernization efforts.
"More open and more Russian companies in Switzerland, offices to bring their technology to Russia," said Spalinger. Either the Russian companies would produce or buy in Switzerland Swiss technology for export.
Others are specialized in the handling of exports of machinery and other industrial products, such as the EIT Export Industrial Technology in Neuchâtel, Zurich in the Erapa Volketswil and Eurochem Trading and Cronos-Ex in the train.
Size is everything
Despite the attractiveness of technology was made in Ireland but the Swiss market is too small to attract large scale in Russia's interests, says Walter Fetscherin. The former Swiss ambassador in Moscow is now the director of the United Chamber of Commerce, which looks after the interests of Switzerland, Russia and some former Soviet republics.
"Except Renova it was very little direct Russian investments in the Swiss industrial sector," said Fetscherin. Russia is concentrating on larger markets such as Germany, the country would bring advantages in trade with its raw materials.
"Most Swiss companies are for the current stage of Russia's modernization is too small. But I have the impression that will discover in the next few years and more Russian companies Swiss niche product," said the Russia expert.
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The Russians are coming
More than in the industrial sector is doing, according to Fetscherin in Swiss real estate sector and in hospitality and tourism. Regula Spalinger refers to a special niche: An increasing number of small Russian companies would look here for high-class medical clinics and care centers in which Russians could be treated as a so-called health tourists.
That the number of Russian companies in Switzerland increases can be accepted as certain. But what concerns the size of the investment and the number of jobs created, there is no clarity about it. There is also uncertainty about the proportion of shell companies, which use only to Switzerland as a tax loophole.
In summary, one could describe the Russian business interests in Switzerland as restricted, externally marked by sparsely occupied offices at the local offices.
The number of Russians in Switzerland has passed the milestone of 10,000, but compared to the group of Germans, Italians, Britons, Frenchmen and Americans, it is still small.
Both Spalinger and Fetscherin believe that closer economic ties between the place in Switzerland and Russia, the foundation for a broader market.
"Due to the closer cooperation between the two countries, the trend that more Russian companies coming to Switzerland to intensify in the coming years," says Spalinger.
He falls lions share of these activities on the natural resource industry running, but not less than three-quarters of all Russian oil exports via Switzerland.
The three heavyweights of the industry, Rosneft, and TNK-BP Bashneft meet in Geneva, Zurich and more land to train people from other industries who want to take entrepreneurial base in Switzerland.
These mainly included the areas of financial services, real estate, tourism and manufacturing, says Regula Spalinger. She is director of counseling communication platform between East and West, on the relationship between Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe is specialized.
"Over the last five years we have seen a strong development of a practical doubling of Russian activities in Switzerland," says Regula Spalinger swissinfo.ch.
The newly established companies would gradually change the stereotypical image that Russian business interests focused only on the raw materials.
Modernization
Exact numbers of Russian companies in the country is none. Neither does the federal government an official statistic, nor the cantons are willing to give the names of the companies established there.
The highest number is expected to accommodate up to 70 of the Canton of Geneva, followed by Lake Geneva, and Zurich train, is an estimate of communication between East and West.
Figure in the directories of the platform and the two Swiss Sulzer and Oerlikon industrial groups. 31% of Sulzer has long been considered a Russian investment company Renova. "
This is no coincidence: Swiss technology in Russia is much sought to modernize the local economy. On the one hand, the infrastructure requires urgent renovation, on the other hand, the dependence on oil and gas sector will be reduced. Switzerland has just been committed into an agreement to help Russia in its modernization efforts.
"More open and more Russian companies in Switzerland, offices to bring their technology to Russia," said Spalinger. Either the Russian companies would produce or buy in Switzerland Swiss technology for export.
Others are specialized in the handling of exports of machinery and other industrial products, such as the EIT Export Industrial Technology in Neuchâtel, Zurich in the Erapa Volketswil and Eurochem Trading and Cronos-Ex in the train.
Size is everything
Despite the attractiveness of technology was made in Ireland but the Swiss market is too small to attract large scale in Russia's interests, says Walter Fetscherin. The former Swiss ambassador in Moscow is now the director of the United Chamber of Commerce, which looks after the interests of Switzerland, Russia and some former Soviet republics.
"Except Renova it was very little direct Russian investments in the Swiss industrial sector," said Fetscherin. Russia is concentrating on larger markets such as Germany, the country would bring advantages in trade with its raw materials.
"Most Swiss companies are for the current stage of Russia's modernization is too small. But I have the impression that will discover in the next few years and more Russian companies Swiss niche product," said the Russia expert.
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The Russians are coming
More than in the industrial sector is doing, according to Fetscherin in Swiss real estate sector and in hospitality and tourism. Regula Spalinger refers to a special niche: An increasing number of small Russian companies would look here for high-class medical clinics and care centers in which Russians could be treated as a so-called health tourists.
That the number of Russian companies in Switzerland increases can be accepted as certain. But what concerns the size of the investment and the number of jobs created, there is no clarity about it. There is also uncertainty about the proportion of shell companies, which use only to Switzerland as a tax loophole.
In summary, one could describe the Russian business interests in Switzerland as restricted, externally marked by sparsely occupied offices at the local offices.
The number of Russians in Switzerland has passed the milestone of 10,000, but compared to the group of Germans, Italians, Britons, Frenchmen and Americans, it is still small.
Both Spalinger and Fetscherin believe that closer economic ties between the place in Switzerland and Russia, the foundation for a broader market.
"Due to the closer cooperation between the two countries, the trend that more Russian companies coming to Switzerland to intensify in the coming years," says Spalinger.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Teen Choice Awards 2011
Country singer Taylor Swift, the "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson and her colleagues of "Twilight" are among the winners of the Teen Choice Awards. Swift received a total of six awards.
Among other things, was the country singer Taylor Swift is known as the Ultimate Choice Award for the highest price of the year. The trophy is shaped like a surfboard. With its young actors, musicians, artists and athletes will be honored.
The first part of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" was given the award for the best Science-Fiction/Fantasy-Film, part two won the title "election film of the summer". Radcliffe aka Harry Potter won as best film star of the summer, while Watson received the award for best actress in a science fiction or fantasy flick awarded.
Pattinson as best actor and film-vampire
Under the "Twilight" competition is set, the Briton Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen) by the young audience as the best movie star and movie vampire. His colleague, Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black) was named best actor in a Sci-Fi-/Fantasy-Film.
Among other things, was the country singer Taylor Swift is known as the Ultimate Choice Award for the highest price of the year. The trophy is shaped like a surfboard. With its young actors, musicians, artists and athletes will be honored.
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The first part of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" was given the award for the best Science-Fiction/Fantasy-Film, part two won the title "election film of the summer". Radcliffe aka Harry Potter won as best film star of the summer, while Watson received the award for best actress in a science fiction or fantasy flick awarded.
Pattinson as best actor and film-vampire
Under the "Twilight" competition is set, the Briton Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen) by the young audience as the best movie star and movie vampire. His colleague, Taylor Lautner (Jacob Black) was named best actor in a Sci-Fi-/Fantasy-Film.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
The opera is more popular than ever
Stefan Herheim "Parsifal" is far removed from Wagner's dedication game. He will bring the Grail Knights arrive in the present. A conversation with one of the most sought after opera directors of our time.
Stefan Herheim: I'm now at home in Berlin and I noticed that everything from there via television and through phone calls, of course, with my family and friends. One is simply speechless. This is a new dimension to the violence, if such a disturbed person to know how these bombers with such a cunning force, with the intelligence of how to inflict the most damage, that alone. It was thought at first yes, this is a professional international terrorism. But that one man stands behind it, this is a dimension that is not tangible.
One would not expect that something like this happens in Norway.
Anyway, not at all. Of this we have always been spared so far, thank God. But the country has of course to the roots torn up and upset. This is a wound that will not take long to heal.
Here in Your Bayreuth "Parsifal" production is taken up by 2008. If you see them after a few years back now, would you do that today just as back then?
In essence, I think: Yes, that's still very, very strong. It's not like I go back and look at an old job, there is a "work in progress" in some respects. There are new singer here, she must work hard and it is only a short time available for samples. And of course there are moments, scenes, situations where I say, I'd like crazy now - are addressed from a different angle - as part of the concept. But that would then mean that you also need some new costumes, would also have to work on the decoration. Because the possibilities are obviously limited.
In the past there have been performances at the end of the second act, when they roll out flags with the swastika, even boos and protests in the audience today are not. So what has changed since?
Stefan Herheim
I experience not only here but in many performances. Because something is brought to the point in a way, as people might not expect it, as they have not seen it yet. The suspect is behind it now, just a desire to provoke, to blind provocation, perhaps. And then it just takes a certain maturity, a time, a reception history. The course then develops over the years. But mainly, I think the audience will judge this without pressure from outside. One approach is unbiased and I think everyone realizes that this is in itself a very positive affair that goes up on this rail history and come to a conclusion must, and therefore there is not really an alternative to power of these images.
Where do you keep on because during the performance?
In the auditorium. I'm always pure in my own performance. This is very important to me. For the test work and dealing with the work, with the singers on the sample stage is one thing. I never really consider as art. The art comes only in the confrontation with the audience, opening up for something. And if these membranes between the auditorium and stage in vibration, are set in motion, then everyone will enjoy it too different things. But two thousand people just sit together in a dark room to experience first of all feel the same and to this extent also in the same boat. There is a revival of the theater, a revival. And this process I would not want to miss. Since I'm always happy to go and also very critical of me for using the responses that I feel there. If an idea really works, you really only know if the audience is there.
Opera singers are indeed very often rumored that they were very bad actors. What experience do you do as director here in Bayreuth?
Basically, the course work in Bayreuth is very special because people who make over the whole year around the world, professional opera to voluntarily spend their summer vacation here to make Wagner in Wagner's own house, in Wagner's own theater. They come with a very high standard of the "total work of art" as Wagner called it himself. To that extent it has actually never been a problem here in terms of motivation. You also have the peace and an incredible focus on the new manufacturing production. And that was a unique experience to be working here. This is of course not, not even here locally. This needs to be protected and preserved. As I see it coming now also have problems, because it has changed a lot in recent years. For the existing productions, but also with new productions certainly far too little time is available to develop and achieve a goal. That has a lot to do with finances.
So, I'm certainly not someone who rejoices with his own provocation, in the sense that now I come to you and throw something on the head. Provocation is a phenomenon that exists throughout all levels of life. Of course, even more so in art. We need to look at us and then seen again in this process. And there are no children stories that run on the stage. The yes no pure, pleasurable illusion are stories that are told there, but it comes to sausages, to say the then another. It is a very existential philosophical, psychological conflicts, which just reflect the existence in its entirety, to us as human beings again and again to question. Been, we believe that this Wagner's operas, even then, when they came out, safe, pretty and beautiful. Quite the contrary! That was dramatic, fresh, new, spectacular theater, which of course is very, very much resistance encountered. In retrospect, these processes are transfigured.
What we can actually opera, musical theater today what we can say?
It can tell us everything that we can not say anything. There is a question of how to do it, how to deal with what it has to be at all. And that's a question that must be constantly redefined. It has been very, very much transformed by our cultural history, between the middle class today and this seemingly elitist claim. The opera is more popular than ever. There are now built in Europe is still new and expensive opera houses. But opera has to legitimize itself increasingly from the inside out and turn to living people as a living art form. If the opera seems dead as an art form, it is because people who exercise and the hermeneutic, possibly even dead. I just hope, again and again to prove that I am a man of flesh and blood, who is fighting for the right to life. And I just love this very debate in the collective.
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Now yes the great Jubilee Year 2013 is upon us. The 200th Birthday of Richard Wagner. But Giuseppe Verdi is celebrated. I have a lot of Wagner made in recent years. Now I devote myself more Verdi. And go to houses with large productions, in which I have never worked until now. Even in European countries where I was before. My calendar is full until 2017. So from there I can not complain. Rather, it is so that you would think from time to time, it would be nice to have a bit more flexibility, a little bit to respond spontaneously to things, but on the other hand, there is also a great blessing that comes with the tide.
But you will not feel dizzy when you look at your agenda, right?
Occasionally one takes a bit of panic when you realize just that one lags behind, for example, purely temporal. All this costs just very, very not lose too much power and it is also necessary to connect to the reality of ordinary life. Yes we draw out of life. And if there sometime just running by itself and is served, what is for oneself has become a routine, then there is the risk that you really just repeats instead of renewing.
Stefan Herheim: I'm now at home in Berlin and I noticed that everything from there via television and through phone calls, of course, with my family and friends. One is simply speechless. This is a new dimension to the violence, if such a disturbed person to know how these bombers with such a cunning force, with the intelligence of how to inflict the most damage, that alone. It was thought at first yes, this is a professional international terrorism. But that one man stands behind it, this is a dimension that is not tangible.
One would not expect that something like this happens in Norway.
Anyway, not at all. Of this we have always been spared so far, thank God. But the country has of course to the roots torn up and upset. This is a wound that will not take long to heal.
Here in Your Bayreuth "Parsifal" production is taken up by 2008. If you see them after a few years back now, would you do that today just as back then?
In essence, I think: Yes, that's still very, very strong. It's not like I go back and look at an old job, there is a "work in progress" in some respects. There are new singer here, she must work hard and it is only a short time available for samples. And of course there are moments, scenes, situations where I say, I'd like crazy now - are addressed from a different angle - as part of the concept. But that would then mean that you also need some new costumes, would also have to work on the decoration. Because the possibilities are obviously limited.
In the past there have been performances at the end of the second act, when they roll out flags with the swastika, even boos and protests in the audience today are not. So what has changed since?
Stefan Herheim
I experience not only here but in many performances. Because something is brought to the point in a way, as people might not expect it, as they have not seen it yet. The suspect is behind it now, just a desire to provoke, to blind provocation, perhaps. And then it just takes a certain maturity, a time, a reception history. The course then develops over the years. But mainly, I think the audience will judge this without pressure from outside. One approach is unbiased and I think everyone realizes that this is in itself a very positive affair that goes up on this rail history and come to a conclusion must, and therefore there is not really an alternative to power of these images.
Where do you keep on because during the performance?
In the auditorium. I'm always pure in my own performance. This is very important to me. For the test work and dealing with the work, with the singers on the sample stage is one thing. I never really consider as art. The art comes only in the confrontation with the audience, opening up for something. And if these membranes between the auditorium and stage in vibration, are set in motion, then everyone will enjoy it too different things. But two thousand people just sit together in a dark room to experience first of all feel the same and to this extent also in the same boat. There is a revival of the theater, a revival. And this process I would not want to miss. Since I'm always happy to go and also very critical of me for using the responses that I feel there. If an idea really works, you really only know if the audience is there.
Opera singers are indeed very often rumored that they were very bad actors. What experience do you do as director here in Bayreuth?
Basically, the course work in Bayreuth is very special because people who make over the whole year around the world, professional opera to voluntarily spend their summer vacation here to make Wagner in Wagner's own house, in Wagner's own theater. They come with a very high standard of the "total work of art" as Wagner called it himself. To that extent it has actually never been a problem here in terms of motivation. You also have the peace and an incredible focus on the new manufacturing production. And that was a unique experience to be working here. This is of course not, not even here locally. This needs to be protected and preserved. As I see it coming now also have problems, because it has changed a lot in recent years. For the existing productions, but also with new productions certainly far too little time is available to develop and achieve a goal. That has a lot to do with finances.
So, I'm certainly not someone who rejoices with his own provocation, in the sense that now I come to you and throw something on the head. Provocation is a phenomenon that exists throughout all levels of life. Of course, even more so in art. We need to look at us and then seen again in this process. And there are no children stories that run on the stage. The yes no pure, pleasurable illusion are stories that are told there, but it comes to sausages, to say the then another. It is a very existential philosophical, psychological conflicts, which just reflect the existence in its entirety, to us as human beings again and again to question. Been, we believe that this Wagner's operas, even then, when they came out, safe, pretty and beautiful. Quite the contrary! That was dramatic, fresh, new, spectacular theater, which of course is very, very much resistance encountered. In retrospect, these processes are transfigured.
What we can actually opera, musical theater today what we can say?
It can tell us everything that we can not say anything. There is a question of how to do it, how to deal with what it has to be at all. And that's a question that must be constantly redefined. It has been very, very much transformed by our cultural history, between the middle class today and this seemingly elitist claim. The opera is more popular than ever. There are now built in Europe is still new and expensive opera houses. But opera has to legitimize itself increasingly from the inside out and turn to living people as a living art form. If the opera seems dead as an art form, it is because people who exercise and the hermeneutic, possibly even dead. I just hope, again and again to prove that I am a man of flesh and blood, who is fighting for the right to life. And I just love this very debate in the collective.
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Now yes the great Jubilee Year 2013 is upon us. The 200th Birthday of Richard Wagner. But Giuseppe Verdi is celebrated. I have a lot of Wagner made in recent years. Now I devote myself more Verdi. And go to houses with large productions, in which I have never worked until now. Even in European countries where I was before. My calendar is full until 2017. So from there I can not complain. Rather, it is so that you would think from time to time, it would be nice to have a bit more flexibility, a little bit to respond spontaneously to things, but on the other hand, there is also a great blessing that comes with the tide.
But you will not feel dizzy when you look at your agenda, right?
Occasionally one takes a bit of panic when you realize just that one lags behind, for example, purely temporal. All this costs just very, very not lose too much power and it is also necessary to connect to the reality of ordinary life. Yes we draw out of life. And if there sometime just running by itself and is served, what is for oneself has become a routine, then there is the risk that you really just repeats instead of renewing.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Germany:Better train instead of stinking tour buses
From an ecological point of view I would like for the domestic long-distance transport is well developed, well-utilized rail. Punctual, fast and affordable. Who knows the Swiss railway know what I mean.
But what I get instead? Make way for long-distance buses.
Yes, you will say: That's a good thing. Free travel for free citizens. A beautiful black-and-train our Liberal government, already committed - then the coalition agreement. And the bus is not even the means of transport with the lowest CO2 emissions per capita? If it were so simple then.
Legends of free navigation and environmental
The truth about the legend of the free ride daily reports of the traffic. A ride from the city center to the center of Berlin takes Frankfurt by bus for more than nine hours - by train only half of it.
But the carbon dioxide! Yes, there's been times 2005 figures cited by the likes Buslobby. The only apply to coaches, not for buses. For the route Frankfurt - Berlin, this means that the coach met 19 kg of CO2 per passenger, the rail head 26 per kilogram - nearly a third more. What makes the difference? Capacity utilization, which is in fact currently coaches significantly higher than the train. For the buses is not cut off much worse than the train, especially because an even lower utilization.
What does that mean? For me, the consequence is clear: Rather than weaken the train traffic through competition, we need to utilize him better and make more attractive and affordable. Cited by Ramsauer Transport Minister at the launch of the cabinet decision to ask young people can go on long-distance train, not bus. Rail saver fares and bus fares are not that far apart, there is something else. Assuming you wanted.
So we do not misunderstand us: I'm talking about trains, not buses by train. They should not hesitate to face the competition. But just the regional bus services to 50 kilometers to stay with the current changes largely sidelined.
None of the twelve-lane highways Republic
If we do not want a twelve-lane highways of the Republic, we must hold on to the mass transit train. And then it makes environmental sense, and thus better utilize the features to make it more effective. Just a reminder: More buses, which means more traffic, noise. Air pollution. And land consumption by new bus stations. As pleased by short-term, the local construction industry, but nobody else.
An economically more expensive it is also fun, because the roads are overused by more heavy-duty buses go faster than broken anyway. Make no mistake about it: The new customers of the bus routes will be people who have little money. Instead of cheap train ride, they will clog the highways in buses spree. And our federal government that is still in progress as a liberal. Well, thank you!
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But what I get instead? Make way for long-distance buses.
Yes, you will say: That's a good thing. Free travel for free citizens. A beautiful black-and-train our Liberal government, already committed - then the coalition agreement. And the bus is not even the means of transport with the lowest CO2 emissions per capita? If it were so simple then.
Legends of free navigation and environmental
The truth about the legend of the free ride daily reports of the traffic. A ride from the city center to the center of Berlin takes Frankfurt by bus for more than nine hours - by train only half of it.
But the carbon dioxide! Yes, there's been times 2005 figures cited by the likes Buslobby. The only apply to coaches, not for buses. For the route Frankfurt - Berlin, this means that the coach met 19 kg of CO2 per passenger, the rail head 26 per kilogram - nearly a third more. What makes the difference? Capacity utilization, which is in fact currently coaches significantly higher than the train. For the buses is not cut off much worse than the train, especially because an even lower utilization.
What does that mean? For me, the consequence is clear: Rather than weaken the train traffic through competition, we need to utilize him better and make more attractive and affordable. Cited by Ramsauer Transport Minister at the launch of the cabinet decision to ask young people can go on long-distance train, not bus. Rail saver fares and bus fares are not that far apart, there is something else. Assuming you wanted.
So we do not misunderstand us: I'm talking about trains, not buses by train. They should not hesitate to face the competition. But just the regional bus services to 50 kilometers to stay with the current changes largely sidelined.
None of the twelve-lane highways Republic
If we do not want a twelve-lane highways of the Republic, we must hold on to the mass transit train. And then it makes environmental sense, and thus better utilize the features to make it more effective. Just a reminder: More buses, which means more traffic, noise. Air pollution. And land consumption by new bus stations. As pleased by short-term, the local construction industry, but nobody else.
An economically more expensive it is also fun, because the roads are overused by more heavy-duty buses go faster than broken anyway. Make no mistake about it: The new customers of the bus routes will be people who have little money. Instead of cheap train ride, they will clog the highways in buses spree. And our federal government that is still in progress as a liberal. Well, thank you!
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Axel Springer profits from overseas expansion
Axel Springer, the "picture" - and "world"-publisher could submit in the first half of a strong result. Thanks to the Group but not the national print media.
For in this segment fought Axel Springer in the first half of the year with declining revenues. The strong growth has been achieved elsewhere, namely in the digital and the international (Print) media. To jump recently acquired a new women's portal in the UK. The aim of the new business focus to become more independent is to make use of the developments in the domestic print market. "Axel Springer's digital and international activities are not the only driver of growth, but also now contribute nearly 40 percent of the total operating result in," announced Springer chief Mathias Doepfner.
profit decline
Total earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) in the first half of 289 million euros, a rise compared to last year by ten percent to a historic high. Not so with the net profit: He was in the first half declined by eleven percent and fell to 151 million euros. Reasons for this have not yet been named.
Revenue increased by twelve percent, to nearly 1.53 billion euros and thus met the expectations of analysts. With 53.4 percent controlled the international print media at the largest contribution to sales growth, digital media, with 30.3 percent, the second largest. The national print media, however, experienced declining advertising revenues, was responsible for the especially strong prior-year quarter, which benefited from the football World Cup.
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For the current year plans the MDAX companies increased sales in the single digit range and an Ebitda increase in the low double digits.
Shareholders in a celebratory mood
The investors are extremely satisfied with the figures presented, the Springer shares traded today, with more than six per cent more than biggest winner in the MDAX.
Competitor ProSiebenSat.1 will report its quarterly results on Thursday, followed by the RTL Group on 24 August.
Monday, August 1, 2011
Even skilled workers threatens the study indicates that unemployment
Despite the shortages of skilled workers seem to lose many skilled workers their jobs. Have as in the first half of this year, with 110,000 employees university or technical school diploma registered as unemployed, reported the "Saarbrücken Newspaper", citing a study by the German Trade Union Federation (DGB). That was 3.6 percent of all employees with the appropriate level of education.
An employee in the Laser Center of the Rostock company IMG.
During the same period were 908 000 unemployed workers with occupational training - 5.7 percent of more than 16 million employees in this category.
How does that fit together with the warnings of an impending skills shortage? After all, the federal government to ease immigration rules, the Federal Employment Agency had recently stated that in future increasingly looking abroad for suitable applicants.
The labor market expert at the DGB, Wilhelm Adamy suspected in the newspaper that many professionals would be qualified to meet the needs of the labor market over and operated many companies in their training long-term workforce planning.
Relaxation training on the market
For young people looking for a job this year, the situation is relatively good in contrast. It would be far less in the fall give unserved applicants than in the past, the board member of the Federal Labour Agency, said Heinrich Alt, the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". The good economic and demographic changes meant that the companies are more often a lack of talent.
The BA board member sees the employment service while facing new challenges. "We are in the good job situation now on the hard-core unemployed," said Alt. There are currently 1.2 million people under 30 without qualifications. He called for new priorities of financial aid, should the future more difficult for the company to training young people rather than put on career preparation. In addition, training time should be extended if necessary, if trainees needed additional time to create tests.
An employee in the Laser Center of the Rostock company IMG.
During the same period were 908 000 unemployed workers with occupational training - 5.7 percent of more than 16 million employees in this category.
How does that fit together with the warnings of an impending skills shortage? After all, the federal government to ease immigration rules, the Federal Employment Agency had recently stated that in future increasingly looking abroad for suitable applicants.
The labor market expert at the DGB, Wilhelm Adamy suspected in the newspaper that many professionals would be qualified to meet the needs of the labor market over and operated many companies in their training long-term workforce planning.
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Relaxation training on the market
For young people looking for a job this year, the situation is relatively good in contrast. It would be far less in the fall give unserved applicants than in the past, the board member of the Federal Labour Agency, said Heinrich Alt, the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". The good economic and demographic changes meant that the companies are more often a lack of talent.
The BA board member sees the employment service while facing new challenges. "We are in the good job situation now on the hard-core unemployed," said Alt. There are currently 1.2 million people under 30 without qualifications. He called for new priorities of financial aid, should the future more difficult for the company to training young people rather than put on career preparation. In addition, training time should be extended if necessary, if trainees needed additional time to create tests.
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