"If Romania and Bulgaria insist on a vote, the attempt will fail because of a German veto, " German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said.

BBC: Germany mulls Schengen veto on Bulgaria and Romania

Mr Goldstein's boss, Hans-Peter Bauer, who was in charge of fixed income, currency and derivatives trading, went by the wayside just before Christmas.

ECONOMIST: Is this marriage a mistake?

Tanztheater Wuppertal, the dance company founded by the late Pina Bausch, will soon begin a lengthy season at Sadler's Wells, while galleries are showing works by artists like Tino Sehgal and Hans-Peter Feldmann.

ECONOMIST: German culture in Britain

Koenig, now a science advisor on the GROVER Project, asked Hans-Peter Marshall, a glaciologist at Boise State University to bring in his expertise in small, low-power, autonomous radars that could be mounted on GROVER.

ENGADGET: NASA's GROVER eco-rover to examine Greenland's ice sheet (video)

German newspapers on Wednesday pointed out that Germany turns down asylum applications from Roma from Kosovo, and some accused Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich of unacceptable discrimination when he referred recently to "increasing abuse of asylum from countries in the Balkans".

BBC: Merkel opens Roma Holocaust memorial in Berlin

"The clearly political intent to fix a final and irreversible end-date for German nuclear energy with such unprecedented haste gives me increasing worry, " Hans-Peter Keitel, head of Germany's BDI business lobby, wrote in an open letter to German business leaders Monday.

WSJ: Germany to Forsake Its Nuclear Reactors

She sang of "Herman, Peter, Helga et Hans".

BBC: Goettingen: The song that made history