During the week German Chancellor Angela Merkel is said to have phoned the Italian president to explore the possibility of a change of government.
It was so intent on stopping its sale to Europe that in the same week the tablet became available in the U.K., Apple filed a 44-page complaint to a German court last week.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who has been meeting with his French and German counterparts this week, said he is confident the efforts to forge a tighter fiscal union and stronger spending discipline in countries like Italy and Greece will ultimately succeed.
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There is no news on whether German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who wisely quashed a proposal last week by the German labor minister to introduce a mandatory quota for women in management of German-listed companies, will address the issue further.
Much will turn on talks next week between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and David Cameron.
This week a German doctor in Bavaria filed a criminal complaint against Rabbi David Goldberg.
And last week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev voiced their support for Magna.
Last week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Chinese and European authorities to resolve the matter amicably by holding talks.
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This week the German regulator rejected Deutsche's calls for domestic rivals to be charged more for connecting to its network.
The issue of media freedom is also expected to figure highly during a visit to Russia next week by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
Prime Minister George Papandreou was in Berlin last week before German lawmakers ratified changes to the European Financial Stability Facility, the euro rescue fund.
As Mrs Merkel tried to gather support for Germany's contribution to the European bail-out fund earlier this week, German regulators announced a unilateral ban on some types of short-selling.
The surprise drop in unemployment follows a survey earlier in the week suggesting German consumers were being hit hard by rising energy and food prices and were expecting to tighten the purse strings in the run up to Christmas.
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl this week continued his country's effort to press Yugoslavia toward some compromise.
This week, the German Finance Ministry outlawed naked short-selling of European government bonds, credit default swaps and some stocks.
It was summed up this week by the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.
U.S. markets have a reason for reflection this week as the German and New York stock exchanges are officially married Tuesday.
This week's German plan to set up several bad banks was no more than a down payment on the restructuring ahead.
There are, however, some notorious counter-examples, such as France's 35-hour week or the German government's decision to bail out Philipp Holzmann, a construction firm.
There has also been positive German economic news out this week.
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Chelsea just finished sixth in the Premier League, its lowest position in a decade, while Bayern got blitzed 5-2 by Borussia Dortmund in last week's German Cup final.
Still, the German Dax had a rough week, falling 1.4%.
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This week, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher responded to damning evidence that German companies have provided Iraq with equipment and know-how related to chemical, biological and nuclear weaponry.
So sensitive is the matter that Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the French prime minister, and Nicolas Sarkozy, his finance minister, postponed a meeting on industrial policy this week with their German counterparts.
According to the lawsuit filed this week, the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce Wuppertal-Solingen-Remscheid, a trade association holding rights to the certified Solingen knife collection, are suing Stewart, Lagasse and the Home Shopping Network.
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Following the release of the IAEA report and ahead of the UN General Assembly's opening meeting later this month, this week US, German, British, French, Russian and Chinese diplomats met in Germany to discuss the possibility of ratcheting up Security Council sanctions against Iran.
This week in Berlin the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, looked back over the past year and saw "some progress".
Over the next week or so, German visitors to Denmark's beaches will be handed leaflets urging them not to buy Danish pork.
The yield on the ten-year German Bund touched 3% last week, an historic low and more than a percentage point below America's comparable bond.
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