A tabernacle of Germanness — or rather Bavarianness, one of its Holies of Holies, really — has been stormed by a German Turk. Django Asäl (born in the small South German town of Hengersberg in 1972 as Ugur Bagisayici) will do the”Starkbieranstich” on the Nockherberg. There are Germans of Turkish ethnicity in the federal legislature, [...]

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European Union Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel will be in Washington DC on Thursday and Friday this week for meetings with all the key farm policy players in the Administration and in Congress. A deal between the EU and the US on cutting farm tariffs and subsidies holds the key to the stalled WTO ‘Doha [...]

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