They just want credit lines with fair interest rates and payback schedules, but that's something that has dried up during this crisis, and it's starving our small businesses.

FORBES: Entrepreneurs

Both of those opposition parties are offering a much more conciliatory, less austere approach to European debtor nations, which would likely include Euro bonds, lower interest rates for indebted countries and lengthened repayment schedules.

FORBES: Portugal as EU Sovereign Debt Swan Song

Two railway watchdogs, the Eisenbahnbundesamt (EBA) and the Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA), try to keep DB on the rails, by checking how it manages such conflicts of interest as it allocates routes, sets timetables and schedules repairs.

ECONOMIST: German railways