Just not German heiress Madeleine Schickedanz, who has been telling the German press that she is broke.
The former SS man is not German, nor is he living in Germany.
Now the concern of some both inside Deutsche and outside is that the obstacle to Jain's appointment is that he is conspicuously not German.
The French are not happy that German trains, not French ones, will run on the soon-to-open high-speed link between Moscow and St Petersburg, nor that Siemens is pulling out of its nuclear joint venture with Areva.
However, he does not speak German which has made life more difficult for the company.
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This would mean genuine, American-style federalism, not the German kind, where the central government makes policy and the states administrate it.
This would mean genuine, American-style federalism, not the German kind, where the central government makes policy and the states carry out the administration of it.
Investigate when beef patties were placed between slices of bread and you find some historians pointing not to German food stalls in New York but a county fair in Wisconsin.
Yet not all German private-equity deals have been a success.
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Many of the clothes, cooking aprons and even stainless steel food trays offered in the Berlin store were either designed or manufactured in jails, but not just German ones.
At least a third of children with non-German roots and a tenth of those growing up in German-speaking homes do not speak standard German properly.
Or to put it another way, it's not completely bonkers that the German government does not wish to - in effect - finance the lifestyles of Italians and Spanish people, without checking whether German voters think that's tickety-boo.
After all, not every single German in World War II was a Nazi sympathizer, and not every sports parent is obsessed with a scholarship.
The German government had earlier vowed not to back the German group's claims on Poland.
It might not matter that German bank IKB probably would have invested in the CDO and lost its investment whether or not Goldman made the type of disclosures the SEC now claims should have been made.
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But James Robbins agreed with me that the political pressures now on the German Chancellor do not necessarily make a Franco-German compromise harder to reach.
Well as I mentioned on Saturday the German government was determined that the Cypriot rescue should not be seen by German taxpayers as in effect rescuing Russian money launderers with deposits in Cyprus.
They did not survive the German torpedoes six days later, off the coast of Ireland.
Though such consultation is not required by German law, this raised the hackles of several large shareholders.
Although the euro will eliminate intra-European exchange-rate risk, it does not mean that German and Italian bonds become perfect substitutes.
Because of its long track record of delivering low inflation, occasional overshoots have not undermined the German central bank's credibility.
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Not surprisingly, German banks that are knee-deep in debt from countries like Italy, Spain and Greece, are suffering bigger drops today.
Tweedy, Browne may not convince many German shareholders to vote yes on its resolution, but Schneider cannot take these owners for granted.
Cashiers do not even separate German and Bosnian banknotes in their tills.
Merkel is not the only German who seems to have forgotten the inspiring example of Ludwig Erhard, West Germany's first postwar economics minister.
That is why market watchers and not a few German officials were paying very close attention to President Hollande's big press conference last Tuesday.
World War I turned Wilson not only against German militarism but against the structure of world politics and economics that the imperial struggle for colonies had sustained.
Yet the people do not elect the German president.
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Ms. Merkel rightly argues that a short-term fix that doesn't address these structural problems would be a grossly irresponsible betrayal not only of German taxpayers, but also of future generations of euro-zone citizens in every country.
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