Barbara Hendricks
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German SPD minister ‘positive’ as coalition vote result looms
- Europe
- March 1, 2018, 14:03
Germany’s Social Democrat (SPD) environment minister said on Thursday she expects party members to support a new coalition government with Chancellor (...)

German car giants funded exhaust fume tests on humans in 2013
- Manufacturing
- January 29, 2018, 17:34
Dieselgate has revved back into life with revelations that German car manufacturers carried out medical tests on humans using exhaust fumes. After re(...)

German carmakers running out of political cover on emissions scandal
- Transport & Tourism
- July 29, 2017, 06:30
A Berlin equivalent of Fianna Fáil’s notorious – and defunct – Galway races tent is the summer party of the VDA, the lobby group of Germany’s carmaker(...)

Berlin gets the better of Brussels in Dieselgate row
- Manufacturing
- May 2, 2017, 16:12
When Germany’s minister for transport and digital infrastructure, Alexander Dobrindt, appeared before the press last week, his handlers insisted he co(...)

Berliners finally dump the car for love affair with the bicycle
- Europe
- April 26, 2017, 14:00
Over the years, Berlin has seen many horrors: hyperinflation, Hitler, David Hasselhoff dancing on the Berlin Wall in an illuminated jacket. But nothi(...)

China and EU recommit on climate change after Trump backs off
- Environment
- March 29, 2017, 14:56
Nations led by China and the European Union rallied around a global plan to slow climate change on Wednesday after US president Donald Trump began und(...)

German ministry takes meat off menu at official functions
- Europe
- February 25, 2017, 15:16
Politicians and policy buffs were forced to do a double take when they stormed the buffet at the German government’s symposium on “exporting green tec(...)

Politics of bilocation: back and forth between Bonn and Berlin
- Europe
- October 19, 2016, 01:00
Last week, Germany’s federal environment minister Barbara Hendricks flew 480km from Berlin to Bonn to present a report. Then she turned on her heel an(...)

EU states refuse to extend Monsanto weedkiller licence
- Manufacturing
- June 7, 2016, 01:05
The European Union risks a legal showdown with agrichemical group Monsanto and farming unions after leading member states yesterday refused to extend (...)

Modest response to Varadkar news in a Europe used to gay MPs
- Politics
- January 19, 2015, 18:27
Perhaps it was a sign of the times, but Leo Varadkar’s outing on RTÉ Radio made only a modest splash in the world’s media. English-language media outl(...)