Hints and tips:
...Rainer Dulger, head of the BDA, Germany’s main employers’ organisation, said last month that the business community had “lost confidence” in the government....
...With a trouser co-ord such as The Row’s or Jigsaw’s caramel ribbed knit V-neck sweater and matching flared trousers (£120, jigsaw-online.com), a pair of white trainers or classic loafers will work....
...At the start of the year, economists had worried about whether the German upturn would be “V-, W-, L- or U- shaped”, he said. “Now we know that was irrelevant....
...The strength of this “XL upswing” – as Rainer Brüderle, economics minister, calls it – is such that he clichéd German angst has evaporated....
...The Glass Room By Simon Mawer Little, Brown, £16.99 In 1929, Czech automobile magnate Viktor Landauer commissions architect Rainer von Abt to build him a house....
...FA Cup quarter-finals: Middlesbrough or West Bromwich Albion v Manchester United or Reading, Arsenal or Blackburn v Manchester City, Chelsea v Tottenham, Plymouth v Watford....
...His infamous V-sign gesture in the courtroom – one that was quickly renamed an “Ackie” in Frankfurt banking circles – made him a hate figure in the country....
...In the initial trial, he startled many with a victory “V-sign” in apparent contempt of the German legal system. All of which makes Ackermann a compelling figure for study....
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