Top European holdings include German building materials maker Buderus and Spanish real estate developer Corporacion Financiera Alba .
Furthermore, the realities of German coalition building means that the FDP's political leverage will be fairly limited.
In 1933, the German parliament building, the Reichstag, was destroyed by fire.
De Gaulle's vision of Franco-German reconciliation, of the building of a new European order with France and Germany as its centre of gravity, ended - according to one British historian - a historic enmity created by the division of Charlemagne's empire in the ninth century.
Holsten, a German brewer which invested heavily in building its brand in Russia, only to see the market for all imports collapse after last August's huge devaluation of the rouble, now wants to produce locally under licence.
The plans may be contentious in Parliament, though, with some German MEPs fearing their impact on manufacturers building bigger, heavier cars.
On June 25th, after more than a decade of anguished debate, the German parliament at last agreed to the building of a huge memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust in the middle of Berlin.
Decades later, East German authorities tore down large chunks of the building in the 1980s but were unable to start new construction due to a lack of funds.
They had read the same essential sources particularly the work of Philipp Reis, the German physicist who had come startlingly close to building a working telephone back in the early eighteen-sixties.
Will Campbell, director of JGC Engineering, who traces the family-owned firm back six generations to a blacksmith's forge, is building a computerised crane for a German company that needs it to remove nuclear-fuel rods from a defunct Lithuanian reactor.
Last year building sets accounted for 13.4% of German toy sales compared with only 8.6% in Britain.
But building new plants will probably remain unacceptable to the German public.
The new landlords, German property firm IVG Immobilien AG , aren't buying the 40-story building just for its looks.
Private bomb disposal teams are contracted by German railway operator Deutsche Bahn and other companies to check that sites are safe when building works are planned.
Their presence is sufficiently common that private bomb disposal teams are contracted by German railway operator Deutsche Bahn and other companies to check that sites are safe when building works are planned.
Samiruddin is nearly done building their new home, with materials and some labor provided by Uplink, a German NGO.
Most big German companies these days are focusing on their core business and spinning off units, rather than building by acquisition.
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While the German prince essentially inherited his money when he was just seven years old, his family began building his fortune centuries ago.
Treybig, Heller and Maples all had a hand in building Smart Technologies, an Austin company that wants to be to Internet software what German software giant SAP is to industrial automation.
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