On Tuesday, spokesman Thomas Steg defended the government's reaction, saying Germany had "not been silent", and that early details about the case had not been sufficiently clear for a "spontaneous reaction".
Spain is reacting with rage, saying that Germany is harming its farming economy.
Reuters quoted diplomats as saying that Germany initially tried to oppose the move but was persuaded by France to back it.
But she said they dismissed them by saying that Germany "was in a minority position and out of step with most other countries on how to deal with the looming recession".
He recently quoted Mrs Merkel as saying that Germany was about to put in place a policy of expelling gypsies just like France's, which drew a sharp denial from the chancellery.
"Even if you come from a big EU country, you should be aware that every member of the eurozone is systemically relevant, " Mr Rehn was quoted as saying in Germany's Der Spiegel magazine.
Brazil is starting to look as safe as Germany, which might not be saying much for Germany, but it stands as a testament to Brazil as a burgeoning safe haven.
Before I could, he sent me a message from Germany saying he'd been flown out diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Mr Hollande shot back, saying "it is not for Germany to decide for the rest of Europe".
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder added his voice to the debate on Monday in the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung , saying he was "proud" of Germany.
Yet these mishaps are negligible compared with the harm done by Edmund Stoiber, leader of the CSU. Out of the blue, he started bashing eastern Germans, saying he could not let the east decide Germany's future.
Investors are watching for indications that the meeting discussed unified bond issuance for the euro zone at some point in the future, which is another item that Germany has thus far rejected, saying it is too early to create such bonds.
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Plans have firmed for the movement of two Patriot batteries to Turkey, with German army officials saying they will begin the transportation by ship from northern Germany on January 7 or 8, Turkey's state-run TRT news agency reported.
Chancellor George Osborne did not rule out a British exit in an interview with Germany's Die Welt newspaper on Friday, saying he hoped the UK stayed in "but in order that we can remain... the EU must change".
Deutschkron remembered West Germany's first postwar chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, saying that most Germans opposed the Nazis' crimes against Jews and that many had helped Jews to escape.
In Germany, the problems created by immigration literally go without saying, and those who do try to talk about them rapidly find themselves ejected from public life.
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The German newspaper Bild am Sonntag has quoted officials from Russia's Culture Ministry as saying that they were ready to loan Priam's Treasure to Germany for exhibition, but only on the condition that it is returned.
And I'm wondering if you could comment on some of the other things that she said in that speech -- essentially saying that she opposes easy solutions that risk backfiring, and that Germany's power is not infinite and so its responsibility is to deploy our strengthen credibly so we can be of full use to Europe.
On Thursday Germany's Handlesblatt newspaper quoted an anonymous industry source as saying the two banks were examining each other's balance sheets and exchanging internal information.
Germany and France are pushing for changes to the EU treaty, saying stricter fiscal rules should be made part of basic EU law.
Mr Swoboda said the EU must work with Greece saying that it needed "support and advice, not dictatorship by some commissioner from Germany".
The head of Germany's Foundation for Patient Protection, Eugen Brysch, was quoted as saying half of the country's transplant centres should be shut to end damaging competition between them.
One of the architects of European monetary union, Germany's former chancellor Helmut Schmidt, meanwhile, derided critics of the euro, saying there was no reason to panic over such currency fluctuations.
For its part, Deutsche Telekom wrote to Prime Minister Singh in October saying that the cancellation was "without any contractual foundation" and violated a 1998 pact between India and Germany that is designed to protect cross-border investments.
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Armstrong objected to the claim to Winfrey, saying that although it was "professional, " it did not compare to doping programs in former communist East Germany.
Despite a commitment to invest in Selestat, she worries about the increased costs of running a firm in France, saying taxes are higher, labor is twice as expensive, and workers' benefits are double those paid in Germany.
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