Last month Schrder picked a Veba man, Werner Mller, a board member at Veba's coal power operations, to become Germany's Economics Minister.
If that doesn't surprise you, maybe this will: the UK recently overtook France and the US to become Germany's single largest trading partner.
Dmitri Trenin, a retired colonel turned pundit, says Russia should accept that its superpower days are over, and try to join countries such as Britain, France and Germany to become another big post-imperial member of the European club.
Angela Merkel, the first woman to become chancellor of Germany, has displaced Condoleezza Rice as No. 1 on our list of the 100 Most Powerful Women.
And when the Wall finally crumbled and Germany was reunited, she broke barriers of her own, becoming the first East German -- and the first woman -- to become chancellor of Germany.
China has passed Germany to become the third-largest auto market in the world, after the U.S. and Japan.
So much so that China surpassed the U.K. and Germany to become the top export market for Bordeaux in 2010.
She is not prepared for Germany to become the paymaster of Europe.
In 2009 China surpassed Germany to become the world's largest exporter.
Specifically, I expect Germany to become more proactive in helping quell the crisis, and this more cooperative orientation could serve as a catalyst for a rally.
Despite the scale of the crisis, Merkel said that "incredible opportunities" were opening up, adding that growing up in East Germany to become the chancellor of a unified German state had proved to her that nothing was impossible.
Now the Kunduz airstrike has become the catalyst to help Germany redefine the Afghan operation in more warlike terms.
This allows Williams, Fabian Johnson and Tim Chandler, all of whom were born, raised and earned their soccer living in Germany, to become mainstays for Klinsmann.
The Commission also expects the growth and inflation picture across the EU and eurozone to become more even, with Germany and Italy recovering and the UK economy back on track after fears of recession.
It is in the West's interest to accept rapid reunification, to have the GDR become part of the existing Federal Republic of Germany and to integrate it into the NATO framework.
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The high speed train crash in Germany is set to become one of the worst train disasters in European history.
At that point it would become obvious to the citizens of Germany that they have been lending rather more to the eurozone's weaker economies than the eurozone's leaders have been telling them.
In a similar vein, the director of Hanover's chamber of industry and commerce, Wilfried Prewo, points out how much harder it is to become a taxi-driver in Germany than, say, in the United States.
The Tories are also keen, and say they want Britain to become Europe's leading high-tech exporter (Germany might have something to say about that).
South Africa are considered favourites to become the first African country to host the World Cup after narrowly losing out to Germany for the 2006 event.
The result saw Germany become the first country to unite all three Olympic bobsleigh titles, having already captured the two-man and women's titles.
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Not long ago Korea's automakers were boasting of plans to double annual capacity to 6 million vehicles over five years and become an automotive superpower like Japan, Germany and the U.S. Now they are struggling to survive.
The government's recent decision to give up nuclear power and the news that Gazprom, Russia's state-owned gas giant, would invest in German electricity have sharpened fears that Germany might become even more beholden to Russia.
In the first decade of the euro, Germany put itself through wrenching economic reforms to become competitive.
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But Berlin, Paris et al. need to be reminded that what allowed the Continent to become what it is was the violent defeat of Nazi Germany, the U.S.' generous postwar help in providing aid and in creating new, liberal institutions, and our military umbrella, which gave Europe security on the cheap.
This equipment is starting to become available in other countries, too, including France and Germany.
They say that they had their "red lines" in respect of future relations with the French and German governments, and therefore had no choice but to drop the merger, when negotiations with Germany in particular become more fraught.
By the end of 2010, Italy had passed Spain to become the second largest market for solar power in the EU (Germany remains number one).
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