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02FRANKFURT10187	FOURTH REPORT ON ISLAMIC TERRORISM TRIAL IN [...] (SBU) Summary: This report summarizes the events at the Frankfurt terrorism trial from July to September 2002. Four Algerian and one Moroccan (listed below) are accused of planning an attack on the Strasbourg Christmas market in December 2000 and bomb building materials were found in their F [...]	2002-11-04 14:46:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PINR PGOV AG GM

02FRANKFURT10188	HESSE SPD CHOOSES GERHARD BOEKEL TO CHALLENGE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Hesse SPD voted overwhelmingly on October 19 for Gerhard Boekel to challenge Minister- President Roland Koch (CDU) in the February 2003 state elections. Boekel, a 56-year-old lawyer and former Hesse Interior Minister, is admired for his integrity and his good management a [...]	2002-11-04 14:46:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
02FRANKFURT10952	BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG GREEN PARTY EXPRESSES [...] (U) Summary: On November 23, the Baden-Wuerttemberg (B- W) Greens held their first state convention since the September national elections to discuss policy. Leading B-W party leaders such as caucus chief Winfried Kretschmann and Freiburg Lord Mayor Dieter Salomon are concerned about the via [...]	2002-11-26 16:24:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV GM
02FRANKFURT11411	SAARLAND MINISTER PRESIDENT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE [...] (U) Summary: On December 4, Consul General Peter Bodde met with Saarland Minister-President Peter Mueller (CDU) in Saarbruecken. Mueller is a moderate, up-and-coming CDU leader, and ally of Angela Merkel. Mueller said the auto industry has replaced coal and steel as the most important indus [...]	2002-12-10 13:51:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON ETRD BEXP GM
02FRANKFURT11732	FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECLARES IMMIGRATION [...] (U) Summary: On December 18, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe declared unconstitutional the government's immigration law, which had been passed by the Bundesrat in March 2002 under controversial circumstances. With this decision, the Court accepted the challenge to the law by six [...]	2002-12-19 13:10:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM GM
02FRANKFURT11824	GERMANY'S OLDEST POWER PLANT, OBRIGHEIM TO SHUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Federal Environment Minister Juergen Trittin and Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg (ENBW, Germany's third largest energy supplier),have come to an agreement for the shutdown of Germany's oldest nuclear reactor Obrigheim on November 15, 2005. The 2003 shutdown of Obrigheim was part [...]	2002-12-20 15:23:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON SENV PGOV GM EUN
02FRANKFURT11843	HESSE ELECTIONS COUNTDOWN: CDU CONFIDENT, BUT WILL [...] (SBU) Summary. Hesse state elections will take place February 2, 2003. The current Christian Democratic Union (CDU)-Free Democratic Party (FDP) state coalition government is hoping the current voter mood against the national SPD- Green government will help it win votes. The CDU is optimist [...]	2002-12-23 09:23:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
03FRANKFURT10308	Responses to Commission Communication on Company [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Commission has published a synthesis of the results of the consultation on its Communication on "Modernising Company Law and enhancing Corporate Governance in the European Union". While there was widespread support for a very large majority of the proposals, [...]	2003-12-18 08:33:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT10314	ECB on the Stability and Growth Pact: Results or [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Central Bank (ECB) was exceptionally, sternly and publicly critical of Ecofin's decision on Germany and France under the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP),but has been careful neither to trash the SGP nor the process. Rather, their message is that the SGP lives a [...]	2003-12-18 13:07:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT10320	ECB Staff Projections: Growth to Pick Up in 2004 - [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Central Bank's (ECB's) December staff projections suggest real Euro area annual average growth of 0.4% in 2003 rising to 1.6% in 2004 and 2.4% in 2005. The basic story is that exports will help lift growth in the near term followed by a strengthening of domestic [...]	2003-12-18 13:15:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT10327	The German Banking Sector -- Something Happens [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: From speculation over banking mega-mergers, to mooted collapse of the three- pillared banking system, to a circling of the wagons to protect against foreign invaders, the German banking sector is abuzz with rumor. With too many German banks a [...]	2003-12-18 14:36:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT10353	CDU CONVENTION DEBACLE IN BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG SETS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The December 5-6 Christian Democratic (CDU) convention / leadership election in Boeblingen/Baden- Wuerttemberg has raised doubts about Minister President Erwin Teufel's political future. Although Teufel was reelected with 76 percent of the vote, this was his worst showing as C [...]	2003-12-19 13:23:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
03FRANKFURT1051	BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG MINISTER OF INTERIOR THOMAS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with the Consul General on January 29, Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) Minister of Interior, Dr. Thomas Schaeuble (CDU) expressed his regret over anti- American statements in recent election campaigns. On terrorism, Schaeuble is concerned about a lack of cooperation from [...]	2003-02-04 14:04:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL GM
03FRANKFURT1212	FEDERAL PROSECUTOR NEHM DESCRIBES GERMANY'S COUNTER- [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with the Consul General on February 3, Federal Prosecutor Kay Nehm said that bilateral cooperation is good at the working level, despite recent tensions in overall German-American relations. Nehm is confident that the Hamburg trial of Motassadeq will end soon and i [...]	2003-02-07 14:26:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PINR PGOV AG GM
03FRANKFURT1549	FRANKFURT AIRPORT EXPANSION: 2006 COMPLETION TOO [...] (U) Summary and Comment: The expansion of Frankfurt airport, Europe's second largest, is moving forward, though several obstacles may delay the new runway planned for 2006. Legal complaints, a chemical factory in the flight path of the planned northwest runway, a controversial night flight b [...]	2003-02-20 08:10:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON EFIN PGOV SENV GM
03FRANKFURT1785	NEW HESSE CABINET: KOCH PICKS THREE NEW MINISTERS, [...] Summary: (SBU) After winning an absolute majority in February 2 state elections, Hesse Minister-President Roland Koch (Christian Democratic Union - CDU) announced three new ministers for his state cabinet on February 24. Two of them, Stefan Gruettner (Minister of the State Chancellery) and Ud [...]	2003-02-28 09:17:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR ECON SCUL GM
03FRANKFURT2231	MINISTER-PRESIDENT KOCH'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON MAY [...] (SBU) Hesse Minister-President Koch will have an official visit Washington May 13-15. Koch would like to focus on international affairs, the U.S.-German relationship, potential U.S. military base closings in Germany, Iraq, US- EU issues, and counter-terrorism and security issues and will be s [...]	2003-03-13 16:02:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL GM
03FRANKFURT2252	RHINELAND-PFALZ OFFICIALS CALL FOR DRASTIC [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with the Consul General on March 11 and 12, Rhineland-Pfalz Minister for Economics, Transportation, Agriculture and Viniculture, Hans-Artur Bauckhage (FDP) and State Secretary Karl-Heinz Klaer (SPD),Representative of the State in Berlin and Brussels, called for comp [...]	2003-03-14 14:11:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR ECON GM
03FRANKFURT2405	VERDICT IN FRANKFURT TERRORISM TRIAL - WHAT WE [...] (U) Background and summary: This cable is a wrap up of the Frankfurt terrorism trial. It is based on observations by U.S. officials at the trial, but is not to be taken as a verbatim transcript of the proceedings. When the written verdict is published, post will provide it to Department. 2 [...]	2003-03-20 11:51:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PINR PGOV AG GM
03FRANKFURT2451	SOUTHWEST GERMANY ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL NEWS [...] (U) Summary: This is the first in a series of monthly cables planned to summarize political and economic events in ConGen Frankfurt's consular district. End summary. Political News -------------- 2. New Hesse Cabinet: Corts and Gruettner on the Rise (SBU) Roland Koch named the minis [...]	2003-03-21 13:46:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV GM
03FRANKFURT3665	SCENESETTER FOR MINISTER-PRESIDENT KOCH'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Hesse Minister President and Hesse CDU chairman Roland Koch will visit Washington for meetings with senior USG officials on May 13-15. Koch is widely discussed as a CDU Chancellor candidate in 2006 and is in competition with CDU Chairperson Angela Merkel for influence in the pa [...]	2003-05-07 15:04:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL ECON GM
03FRANKFURT392	CAN THE CDU WIN AN ABSOLUTE MAJORITY IN THE HESSE [...] The latest polls in Hesse, released January 8 and 9, put CDU Minister-President Koch ahead of his SPD challenger Gerhard Boekel by near 15 percentage points. There is an increasing possibility that the CDU could win an absolute majority and not require any assistance from the FDP, who may ha [...]	2003-01-15 09:14:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV GM
03FRANKFURT3946	SAARLAND SPD LEADER CRITICIZES CHANCELLOR SCHROEDER [...] (SBU) Summary: During his April 30 trip to Saarland, the Consul General met 34-year-old Saarland opposition leader Heiko Maas in Saarbruecken. The Consul General and Maas, who is the state SPD chairman and Landtag caucus leader, spoke about economic issues, including Agenda 2010 and the upco [...]	2003-05-15 13:32:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL ECON GM
03FRANKFURT3948	SOUTHWEST SPD SPLIT ON SCHROEDER'S AGENDA 2010 [...] (SBU) Summary: Many in the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W),Hesse, Rheinland-Pfalz (R-P) and Saarland are fiercely opposed to Chancellor Schroeder's Agenda 2010 reform plan. In B-W and R-P, the SPD leadership generally approves the Schroeder plan but the rank-and-fil [...]	2003-05-15 14:03:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR ECON ELAB SCUL GM
03FRANKFURT401	FDP CHIEF WESTERWELLE FAILS TO LEAD PARTY OUT OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The Free Democratic Party's (FDP) traditional Three Kings gathering in Stuttgart (January 5-6) is one of the first major national political conventions in the new year and generates a lot of media interest. National Party Chief Guido Westerwelle was under pressure to deliver a s [...]	2003-01-15 11:44:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL GM
03FRANKFURT5345	ECB's Next President Trichet: No Obstacles [...] (SBU) Summary: European Central Bank (ECB) senior officials do not foresee any obstacles to Jean-Claude Trichet becoming the next President of the European Central Bank. Finance Ministers are scheduled to make their official recommendation at the Ecofin meeting on July 15. The ECB Governin [...]	2003-07-01 08:38:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT550	HESSE MINISTER-PRESIDENT ROLAND KOCH: POLARIZING, [...] (SBU) Summary: Hesse's Minister President Roland Koch (Christian Democratic Union - CDU),is the most prominent state politician in the CDU and is a strong leader of his party's conservative wing. He is a potential CDU chancellor candidate in 2006. If the CDU-FDP coalition wins state electi [...]	2003-01-22 09:24:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL GM
03FRANKFURT5570	TOP HESSE CDU PLAYERS KOCH AND ROTH TUSSLE [...] (SBU) Summary: Hesse's two most powerful Christian Democratic (CDU) politicians, Hesse's Minister President Roland Koch and Frankfurt Lord Mayor Petra Roth have public disagreements and competing national ambitions. Roth was elected in May 2003 as president of the German Council of Cities. [...]	2003-07-08 13:15:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR ECON EAIR GM
03FRANKFURT5668	SAARLAND'S POPULAR MINISTER-PRESIDENT PETER [...] (SBU) Summary: Saarland Minister-President Peter Mueller represents the center-left membership of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Known for his unorthodox, provocative political style, he one of the most outspoken CDU Minister-Presidents. He faces state elections in summer 2004 and cu [...]	2003-07-10 14:33:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL ECON ELAB GM
03FRANKFURT5670	Economic Forecast for Germany: Slow Growth and [...] (SBU) Summary: Our forecast for Germany for this year and next is for continued slow growth with a modest pick up in 2004 driven by net exports. While 1.3% real growth in 2004 might be deemed a "recovery" after 0.1% growth in 2003 it is mostly closing a part of the output gap that has opened [...]	2003-07-10 14:38:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT5937	"RUSSIAN-GERMANS": IMMIGRATION AND INTEGRATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The immigration and integration of ethnic Germans and their families from the former Soviet Union (Aussiedler) is a major social problem in Germany. Newcomers' lack of German language skills makes them unemployable and drug-related crimes and ghettoization are endemic among Aus [...]	2003-07-21 13:50:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SMIG SOCI PGOV PREF PHUM GM
03FRANKFURT5976	THREAT LETTER AGAINST US EMBASSY ACCRA AND MARINE [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 22, 2003 RSO Frankfurt received an unsigned letter, in broken German, warning of Arab planned attacks against Marine Corps Cantonment areas and the US Embassy housing area in the capital of Ghana. The timing and method of attack(s) is not specified. The letter was rec [...]	2003-07-22 11:24:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PTER
03FRANKFURT6409	Stability and Growth Pact: Listerine Syndrome; [...] Summary: "The taste people hate, twice a day." Wretchedly-tasking Listerine's old advertising slogan is akin to the criticism of the EU Stability and Growth Pact (SGP): we don't like these rules, but we need rules at least twice a year when budget results are issued [...]	2003-08-04 13:47:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT682	CDU LIKELY TO WIN HESSE ELECTIONS, PERHAPS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Hesse will see a clear victory for Minister-President Roland Koch and the governing CDU-FDP coalition in state elections February 2. All major opinion polls put the CDU ahead of the SPD by up to 18 percentage points. The dramatic erosion of support for the SPD is attributed [...]	2003-01-24 14:38:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV GM
03FRANKFURT7034	Accession Countries And The Euro: Convergence [...] (SBU) Summary: EU member states and acceding countries (ACs) are beginning to face the dilemmas that EU economic rules are likely to present them both as soon as accession occurs in May 2004. EU rules require ACs to adopt the euro as soon as they fulfill the convergence criteria on inflatio [...]	2003-08-26 11:52:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT7038	Securities Exchanges, Clearing and Settlement: [...] (SBU) Introduction: The European world of clearing and settlement is not as boring as these dreary back-office chores imply. Intense rivalry in the market place has become even more so - spreading beyond the continent, across the channel and across the Atlantic. Deu [...]	2003-08-26 13:01:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT7111	Investment Services Directive Moving Toward [...] (SBU) Summary: Negotiations on the controversial pre- trade transparency provisions of the proposed revision to the Investment Services Directive appear to be moving toward a compromise. Compromise amendments circulated in the European Parliament and texts being discussed [...]	2003-08-29 05:30:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT7208	Prospectus Directive: Final Adoption is Milestone [...] No summary [...]	2003-09-02 13:33:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT7786	Protests Follow Hesse/Koch Austerity Plan of Less [...] SUMMARY: Hesse Minister-President (M-P) Roland Koch's announcement of austerity measures, including a one-billion Euro cut in the Hesse state budget, longer working hours for public employees, cuts in wages and subsidies, and the sale of state assets resulted in demonstrations by public sect [...]	2003-09-18 14:41:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON PINR PREL GM
03FRANKFURT7909	CDU Stumbles on Welfare Reform as Saarland Jumps [...] The CDU-led Saarland government has rejected a Christian Democratic proposal for paying unemployment benefits at the local level. Together with poorer CDU-led states in eastern Germany, Saarland could give the Schroeder government a Bundesrat majority on welfare reform -- and hand a defeat to [...]	2003-09-23 14:10:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON GM
03FRANKFURT7910	GM's Opel Chief Sees More Job Cuts Despite Company [...] (SBU) Opel (GM) Chairman Carl-Peter Forster is optimistic that the automaker can keep its market share growing but pessimistic about overall demand, profits, and the future of the German auto industry. Forster expects that Opel will be forced to announce another round of layoffs at its facili [...]	2003-09-23 14:43:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EIND ECON ETRD ELTN GM
03FRANKFURT8257	Economic Forecast for Germany: Waiting for a [...] (SBU) Summary: The German economy is expected, at best, to stagnate in 2003. Since GDP declined by -0.3% in the first half of the year compared to the previous half- year, positive GDP growth in 2003 is no longer achievable. Driven by improving net exports, German economy [...]	2003-10-06 05:48:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT8258	German Banks: Light at the End of the Tunnel? [...] (SBU) Summary: Summary: The first half of 2003 witnessed stabilization in the German banking sector after a disastrous 2002 - the worst since the war. However, German banks are not out of the woods yet. Continuing benefits of cost cutting, consolidation, cooperation on [...]	2003-10-06 05:49:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT8270	CDU/Teufel: Insider View of European Constitution [...] (SBU) Baden-Wuerttemberg Minister-President (M-P) Erwin Teufel (CDU - Christian Democratic Union),a prominent German conservative and active participant in drafting the proposed European constitution, supports the draft constitution despite its shortcomings from a conservative perspective. A [...]	2003-10-06 09:28:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV GM EUN
03FRANKFURT8335	HEADSCARF VERDICT LIKELY TO GENERATE NEW [...] SUMMARY: In a landmark decision, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe ruled September 24 that Fereshta Ludin (a German teacher of Afghan descent) may teach in a public school without removing her headscarf, but strengthened the authority of German states to regulate religious expressi [...]	2003-10-08 05:38:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV GM
03FRANKFURT8426	Berninger/Hesse Greens Move Towards USG, CDU [...] (U) SUMMARY: Matthias Berninger, State Secretary in the national Agriculture Ministry and new head of the Green party in Hesse, wants to help repair US-German relations and could make helpful gestures on Iraq. A rising star and protege of FM Fischer, Berninger wants to free the party from its [...]	2003-10-10 11:56:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL EAGR GM
03FRANKFURT8629	Expert report on best practices for financial [...] (SBU) Summary: In September a group of European experts issued a report to the European Commission with 31 recommendations on best practices for financial analysts. This work coincides with work underway in the US, UK and the International Organization of Securities Commis [...]	2003-10-20 07:55:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT8839	Economic Europe: A Year of Redefinition? Or a [...] (SBU) Introduction and Summary: In his book "Struggle for Europe," Yale University historian (and foreign service brat) William Hitchcock describes not wars that have swept through Europe but trials and tribulations of peacetime in post WWII Europe. As the title suggests, peace does not mea [...]	2003-10-24 14:42:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT8852	EU Stability and Growth Pact: Commission Wakes to [...] No summary [...]	2003-10-27 07:22:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT8965	Investment Services Directive: Ruffled Feathers [...] (SBU) Summary: The political agreement reached by EU Finance Ministers on the Investment Services Directive (ISD) on October 7 ruffled more than a few feathers. The UK is upset with the Italians who pushed through a position over the British objections; the European Commission is upset with [...]	2003-10-30 06:31:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT926	B-W CDU CAUCUS CHIEF EXPECTS M-P TEUFEL TO STEP [...] Summary: In a meeting with Consul General on January 29, Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) caucus chief Guenther Oettinger, the possible successor to B-W Minister President Erwin Teufel (CDU),spoke about the upcoming elections in Hesse and Lower Saxony and his own political future. He also used the [...]	2003-01-31 09:54:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL GM
03FRANKFURT9271	BaFin guidelines on cross-border provision of [...] (SBU) Summary: In September 2003, the German Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) issued interpretive guidelines on how it will treat the cross-border provision of financial services into Germany. According to the recent guidelines, targeted offers of banking or other [...]	2003-11-10 14:25:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT9273	FRANKFURT AIRPORT EXPANSION HITS SAFETY HURDLE [...] SUMMARY: The expansion of Frankfurt airport has hit a safety hurdle: the advisory German Safety Commission (Stoerfallkommission des Bundes),as well as the European Commission, are examining risks associated with the Ticona chemical plant located near the planned new runway. The advisory c [...]	2003-11-10 14:37:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON PGOV SENV GM
03FRANKFURT9404	European Financial Market Regulatory [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Commission's November 6 launch of measures to extend the Lamfalussy procedures beyond securities to banking and insurance means all financial services governed at the EU level will be covered by a combination of policy and supervisory committee [...]	2003-11-14 08:45:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT9685	BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG BLOCKS WINDMILLS, PROPOSES [...] SUMMARY: The state of Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) has blocked a windmill park near Freiburg and proposed extending the life of nuclear reactors, fueling a political battle with broader implications. The CDU-FDP (Christian Democrat / Free Democrat) B-W government favors reopening debate on the [...]	2003-11-24 13:26:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON SENV PGOV GM
03FRANKFURT9706	LAFONTAINE STEPS ASIDE IN SAARLAND CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Saarland Social Democratic Party (SPD) selected chairman Heiko Maas to challenge Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Minister-President (M-P) Peter Mueller in the September 2004 state elections. Maas' nomination to challenge the popular Mueller ended long speculation that th [...]	2003-11-25 11:29:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV GM PINR
03FRANKFURT9824	The EU Stability and Growth Pact: Dead, On Ice, It [...] No summary [...]	2003-12-01 15:34:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT986	KOCH AND CDU WIN ABSOLUTE MAJORITY IN HESSE [...] (U) The Hesse CDU, led by Minister President Roland Koch won the February 2 elections in Hesse with an absolute majority, a first in the state's postwar history. The SPD recorded an unprecedented defeat, falling ten percent from its 1999 results. The Green Party received more than 10 percen [...]	2003-02-03 13:21:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR EAIR GM
03FRANKFURT9873	Hohmann Anti-Semitism Affair Leaves Open Wounds [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The CDU's tepid and belated response to anti-Semitic remarks by Bundestag member (MdB) Martin Hohmann has highlighted enduring nationalist sentiments and resentment against Germany's Holocaust burden, and weakened leading CDU figure Roland Koch. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) On Germa [...]	2003-12-03 14:31:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM GM
04FRANKFURT10386	Muslim Political Observers On Risk of Extremist [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Muslim political contacts in Frankfurt's district see the predominantly secular character of Germany's largely Turkish Muslim community as a bulwark against Islamic extremism but cite the area's growing North African population and the presence of far-right German groups as po [...]	2004-12-10 10:15:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PGOV SMIG SOCI PHUM GM NL EUN
04FRANKFURT10393	Accounting - Bumpy Ride to The Big Deal [...] (SBU) Summary: Having all 7,000 EU firms listed on EU stock exchanges use the same accounting standards will be a very big deal for European financial markets. Investors will be able to compare investment opportunities, capital will be allocated more efficiently, and supervisors will more c [...]	2004-12-10 13:17:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EUN
04FRANKFURT10394	Council Agrees on Cross-Border Merger Directive: [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Council's agreement on the proposed directive on cross-border mergers concludes a nearly 20-year process. The directive is to facilitate cross-border mergers of companies with share capital, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises that opt not to establis [...]	2004-12-10 13:17:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EUN
04FRANKFURT10621	Show of Unity in Baden-Wuerttemberg CDU as [...] (SBU) At a special party convention on December 11 in Schwaebisch-Gmuend, Baden-Wuerttemberg CDU delegates elected Guenther Oettinger as standard-bearer for the 2006 state elections (following Oettinger's victory in a referendum among the 80,000 state party members). Oettinger's referendum wi [...]	2004-12-20 15:56:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
04FRANKFURT10640	"King Maker" Deal For Europe's Stock Exchanges: [...] (SBU) Summary: The German Stock Exchange's (Deutsche Brse (DB)) informal approach to purchase the London Stock Exchange (LSE) has unleashed the next and biggest round of consolidation in Europe's capital market infrastructure. Euronext, DB's continental rival, reportedly has made its [...]	2004-12-21 13:45:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EUN
04FRANKFURT10842	ALLEGED MOROCCAN PARLIAMENT MEMBER STOPPED BY [...] (SBU) THE GERMAN BORDER POLICE REPORTED TO FRANKFURT DHS/ICE DECEMBER 28, 2004 THAT THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUAL WAS STOPPED DURING ROUTINE CHECKS AT THE FRANKFURT AIRPORT: LAST NAME: EL IDRISSI FIRST NAME: ABOUZAID ELMOKRIE DOB: 09/19/1960 POB: MARRAKECH, MOROCCO MOROCCAN PPT: "OFFICIAL", A [...]	2004-12-29 18:06:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER
04FRANKFURT1390	GERMAN STATE FIRST TO BAN HEADSCARVES ON PUBLIC [...] (U) SUMMARY: On April 1, Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) will become the first German state to ban the use of headscarves by teachers in public schools. The new law does not apply to students (unlike in France) and specifically permits Christian and Jewish symbols. A wide majority of legislators h [...]	2004-02-20 08:41:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV GM
04FRANKFURT1495	Rheinland-Pfalz Lobbies for U.S. Troops to Stay [...] (SBU) Concerned over the USG Global Posture Review (ref A),the state of Rheinland-Pfalz (R-P) is fighting hard to hang on to the approximately 24,000 active-duty U.S. soldiers stationed within the state. Home to US Air Force Europe (USAFE) headquarters at Ramstein Airbase as well as the airba [...]	2004-02-25 09:26:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV MASS PREL GM
04FRANKFURT1938	German High Court Restricts Police Surveillance [...] SUMMARY: On March 3, the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe sharply restricted application of a 1998 law authorizing the electronic surveillance of private homes for law enforcement purposes. The Court ruled that police eavesdropping in private residences is a violat [...]	2004-03-09 10:49:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PINR PGOV AG GM
04FRANKFURT2367	Pro-U.S. Rheinland-Pfalz Leader Kurt Beck Remains [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rheinland-Pfalz Minister-President since 1994, Kurt Beck (SPD/Social Democratic) is one of the most popular leaders in the traditionally conservative state's 60-year history. Economic indices in R-P remain relatively strong at a time of national stagnation, and Beck's coalition [...]	2004-03-23 09:17:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
04FRANKFURT2404	FRANKFURT'S MODEL DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT PROGRAM [...] In just a decade, Frankfurt has evolved from being Germany's drug capital to a city that uses an innovative and widely-praised initiative to treat and rehabilitate addicts. In meetings with Pol/Econ reps, police and city officials report new challenges, namely dealing with crack use and copin [...]	2004-03-24 07:41:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SNAR SOCI GM
04FRANKFURT2778	Hesse Leader Koch Will not Actively Seek [...] (SBU) At the Hesse CDU (Christian Democratic) convention March 20, Hesse Minister-President Roland Koch announced that he would not actively seek nomination as the party's candidate for chancellor in the 2006 national elections. Koch acknowledged Angela Merkel's "undisputed" leadership of the [...]	2004-04-05 07:04:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PINR PREL GM
04FRANKFURT2923	Leading Frankfurt Prosecutor says Germany has a [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Frankfurt prosecutor Wolfgang Schaupensteiner -- Germany's leading expert on corruption -- says Germany needs stricter anti-corruption laws and a public awareness campaign to help overcome complacency. Authorities in Germany have fewer and less effective tools to fight corruptio [...]	2004-04-07 05:21:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV PGOV PINR GM
04FRANKFURT3169	Commission proposes directive on auditor regulation [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Commission has proposed a directive to clarify the duties of statutory auditors in the European Union and to set out clear principles to ensure their objectivity and independence. The proposal mirrors much of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and reflects close consultation [...]	2004-04-16 08:29:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EUN
04FRANKFURT3351	The Lisbon Agenda: targets missed [...] (SBU) Summary: The March 25/26 European Council confirmed that there is little news regarding the so-called Lisbon Agenda, which aims at making the EU the world's most dynamic and competitive economy by 2010. Lack of progress in meeting the Lisbon targets has been highlighted in structural i [...]	2004-04-20 10:27:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EUN
04FRANKFURT3507	BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG REMAINS SKEPTICAL OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) state authorities stand by their designation of the Church of Scientology (CoS) as an extremist sect and will continue official surveillance of CoS activities for the time being. State government representatives are still considering our request (per ref A [...]	2004-04-22 14:28:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI PHUM PREL PGOV GM
04FRANKFURT3861	New Bundesbank President calms situation; [...] (SBU) Summary: Well-respected monetary policy expert Axel Weber was appointed as the new Bundesbank President. A supporter of stability-oriented monetary policy, his nomination was well-received across party- lines and among academics as well as in the financial markets. While many observer [...]	2004-05-03 13:51:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
04FRANKFURT39	Protests Target Koch, Poor University Conditions [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: University strikes and protests in Hesse during recent weeks continue to target Minister-President Roland Koch (CDU). University leaders and students say funding cuts and fee hikes violate prior agreements and will endanger Hesse's leading position in science and research. Pr [...]	2004-01-05 13:23:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PINR PREL GM
04FRANKFURT400	FOLLOW UP - SUSPECTED MEMBER OF EL QAEDA ARRESTED [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PROTECT ACCORDINGLY 2. (SBU) This cable is a follow up to FRANKFURT 208 which described concerns the German police had about a suspected terrorist, Chaouki Ben Adelouaheb Mrad who disappeared shortly after altering his traditional Islamic appearance in order t [...]	2004-01-16 15:04:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PTER
04FRANKFURT4560	Hesse Leads Opposition to Agenda 2010 Unemployment [...] SUMMARY: Led by Hesse Minister-President Roland Koch (CDU - Christian Democrat),the conservative-dominated Bundesrat recently rejected a bill to combine social-welfare and long-term unemployment benefits, a key element of the Schroeder government's "Agenda 2010" economic reform package. Alt [...]	2004-05-27 10:15:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PGOV ECON GM
04FRANKFURT4611	Frankfurt Airport Expansion Delayed At Least Two [...] (U) SUMMARY: Frankfurt Airport's expansion now faces at least a two-year delay, meaning a fourth runway will not open until at least 2009. The Hesse government announced the delay on May 25, blaming the airport authority (Fraport) and refusing to set a new target date. The political opposit [...]	2004-05-28 12:01:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PGOV SENV GM
04FRANKFURT462	GERMANY'S LIBERAL PARTY HITS THE MARK IN NATIONAL [...] SUMMARY: In strong recent performances at the FDP (Free Democrat) national convention in Stuttgart January 6-7 and European election kick-off in Saarbruecken Jan. 17, party head Guido Westerwelle called for less government and more private initiative, starting with radical tax reform. Party [...]	2004-01-20 16:03:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL GM
04FRANKFURT4964	Local Election Preview / SW Germany [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 13, three states in SW Germany -- Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W),Rheinland-Pfalz (R-P) and Saarland -- will hold local elections concurrently with EU-wide European Parliament elections in an effort to increase voter participation. Local elections will serve as a bellwether [...]	2004-06-09 14:59:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PINR TBIO GM
04FRANKFURT4974	Turks in Germany Press Issue of Turkey's EU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Turkish community in Germany voiced their frustration with opponents of Turkey's EU membership at a high-profile May 25 debate in Frankfurt in which the four major German parties sought to win the Turkish community's support in the June 13 European and local elections. At t [...]	2004-06-14 05:43:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SMIG SOCI PHUM GM EUN
04FRANKFURT5072	BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG REJECTS SCIENTOLOGIST REQUEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 4 letter to Church of Scientology (CoS) President Helmuth Bloebaum, Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) State Secretary Rudolf Boehmler refused CoS Germany's request for dialogue with B-W state authorities (reftels),listing "widespread parliamentary opposition" as a primary concer [...]	2004-06-16 08:03:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	GM PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI
04FRANKFURT5178	Euro-Elections/Regional: CDU Stays Strong, Greens [...] SUMMARY: In European elections in the four states of SW Germany, the CDU remained the leading party but failed (as expected) to reach its 1999 high-water mark, with a particularly disappointing performance in Hesse. The SPD suffered dramatic losses throughout the region, including its worst [...]	2004-06-18 09:27:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON PINR TBIO GM
04FRANKFURT5543	Local Elections: SPD Struggles, CDU Stays Strong [...] SUMMARY: Voters in June 13 communal elections in SW Germany followed the nation-wide pattern of punishing SPD candidates in a protest vote against the SPD national government. The SPD fared poorly in Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz, and turned in a weak performance that nonetheless ex [...]	2004-06-28 07:20:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL GM
04FRANKFURT5551	Baden-Wuerttemberg FDP Head / Minister Doering [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 18, Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) Economics Minister and Deputy Minister President Walter Doering (FDP - Free Democrats) resigned from his positions as economic minister, FDP state chairman and deputy chairman of the national FDP, keeping only his elected mandate in the B-W S [...]	2004-06-28 09:29:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PINR TBIO GM
04FRANKFURT567	Hesse Integration Emphasizes German Language, [...] (U) Beginning this month, Hesse becomes the first state in Germany to mandate German-language pre-school instruction in public schools, part of a broader campaign by the CDU government to promote German language and culture among the state's large immigrant community (12% of the total populat [...]	2004-01-23 11:36:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	SMIG SOCI PGOV PREF PHUM GM
04FRANKFURT5675	German Court Approves Ban on Teacher Headscarves [...] SUMMARY: On June 24, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig upheld the Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) law banning headscarves on public school teachers. It dismissed the appeal of Fereshta Ludin, whose case has become a bellwether for Germany's tolerance of Muslim religious expression in pub [...]	2004-07-01 10:24:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV GM
04FRANKFURT5676	Hesse Hosts Large Event for OIF/OEF Military [...] SUMMARY: The state of Hesse recently hosted a day of appreciation for 2200 U.S. military and family members -- in particular families of those deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan -- in the most recent expression of Hesse's desire to be a good host for U.S. forces. END SUMMARY. 2. On June 24 [...]	2004-07-01 10:25:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL PGOV GM
04FRANKFURT5692	Saarland SPD Leaders Air Dirty Laundry, Embrace [...] SUMMARY: In a nationally-publicized showdown, former finance minister/Social Democratic (SPD) chairman Oskar Lafontaine used the Saarland SPD's June 20 convention to issue a blistering critique of Chancellor Schroeder's national government and its Agenda 2010 reform program. With national SP [...]	2004-07-01 12:56:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON PINR PREL GM
04FRANKFURT5840	Baden-Wuerttemberg hosts Large July 4 Event [...] SUMMARY: Continuing an annual tradition, the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg and the German-American Institute in cooperation with ConGen Frankfurt held a high-profile Independence Day reception in Stuttgart for three hundred German guests. END SUMMARY. 2. On July 1, the James F. Byrnes Ger [...]	2004-07-07 14:42:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR GM
04FRANKFURT5846	RHEINLAND-PFALZ PROPOSES JOINT TRAINING FACILITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Rheinland-Pfalz (R-P) state government has proposed converting Baumholder (a 29,158 acre army training facility supporting around 13,000 U.S. soldiers and family members) into a multi-purpose facility for humanitarian intervention and civil defense training. This "Joint Trai [...]	2004-07-08 07:33:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MASS PREL GM
04FRANKFURT5927	Saarland Leader Mueller Lauds Own State as [...] SUMMARY: Saarland Minister-President Peter Mueller (Christian Democrat-CDU) used the state's June 30 "Empower Germany" conference to call for greater innovation and cited his own state's comprehensive economic development strategy as a model for Germany. Mueller's American-style manifesto in [...]	2004-07-12 05:51:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON PINR PREL GM
04FRANKFURT6002	Baden-Wuerttemberg Cabinet Shuffle Raises Eyebrows [...] (U) SUMMARY: Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) Minister President Erwin Teufel (Christian Democrat/CDU) has restructured the state cabinet following the retirement of Interior Minister Thomas Schaeuble (CDU) and State Minister of Economics Walter Doering's (FDP) resignation amid scandal. Teufel took a [...]	2004-07-13 15:03:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PINR TBIO GM
04FRANKFURT6156	SEARCH OF FRANKFURT MOSQUE PROVOKES CONTROVERSY; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Police searched Frankfurt's Taqwa ("Fear of Allah" in Arabic) mosque on July 11 in response to allegations that Taqwa's religious curriculum includes violent and extremist material. Justification for the raid centered on a 9-year old's statement to police that the mosque's schoo [...]	2004-07-19 12:56:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC KISL PINS PHUM PGOV GM MO BINR
04FRANKFURT6238	Troubled GM/Opel Signals Further Cutbacks as CEO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: GM recently shuffled top management at European subsidiary Opel (based in Ruesselsheim outside Frankfurt) amid continued weak consumer demand within the flagging German economy. Effective July 1, Opel CEO Carl- Peter Forster became President and Deputy Chairman of GM Europe, [...]	2004-07-21 15:06:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EIND ELAB ECON ETRD ELTN GM
04FRANKFURT6240	Proposed Daimler-Chrysler Cost-Cutting Measures [...] (U) SUMMARY: Emulating an earlier approach by Siemens, German auto giant Daimler-Chrysler has demanded from IG Metall cuts in bonuses under the threat of moving 6,000 jobs from their main plant in Sindelfingen to either Bremen (where the Mercedes C-Class model costs 500 Euro less to produce) [...]	2004-07-21 15:12:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EIND ELAB ECON ETRD ELTN GM
04FRANKFURT6334	RHEINLAND-PFALZ AGREES TO REINSTATE PENSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: As of July 1, the Rheinland-Pfalz (R-P) state government reinstated full payment of pensions to all Holocaust survivors involved in the Satmar payments dispute (reftels) and will refund all funds withheld to date. R-P took the move in response to a meeting between Consul General [...]	2004-07-23 14:38:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KCRM GM

04FRANKFURT6441	Germany's Supreme Court President Predicts Ludin [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a July 15 meeting with Consul General, Federal Constitutional Court (BVG) president Hans- Juergen Papier predicted that Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) plaintiff Fereshta Ludin would appeal a newly-minted B-W law banning headscarves for civil servants (reftel.) Papier opined that t [...]	2004-07-27 15:23:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KISL GM
04FRANKFURT6445	Hesse CDU Expulsion Marks Latest Chapter of Hohmann [...] (U) SUMMARY: Hesse Christian Democrats (CDU) expelled Fulda member Martin Hohmann from the party on July 20 for an October 2003 speech comparing the actions of Soviet Bolshevist Jews during the Communist Revolution to Nazi involvement in the Holocaust. The CDU federal parliamentary caucus ex [...]	2004-07-27 15:24:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM GM
04FRANKFURT6697	TIP: Rheinland-Pfalz Pioneers Innovative Concept to [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The government of Rheinland-Pfalz (R-P) has developed a victim-oriented approach to combating human trafficking that offers police protection, NGO (non- governmental organization) counseling, and immigration advice for trafficked women. The initiative supports women willing to [...]	2004-08-05 08:41:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN SOCI SMIG GM
04FRANKFURT6722	FRANKFURT CONVENES EAC ON AUGUST 3, 2004 [...] Amcongen Frankfurt convened a CORE EAC (CG, RSO, ADM, CONS ESC and RSC/ABA Rhein Mein) in response to information reftel(s) concerning the Tashkent Bombings and Escalated Homeland Security ratings. 2. EAC discussed issues concerning the Tashkent bombing scenario along with potential targe [...]	2004-08-05 14:54:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ASEC PTER
04FRANKFURT6769	Resignation of Liberal Justice Minister Almost [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The July 22 resignation of Baden- Wuerttemberg (B-W) Minister of Justice Corinna Werwigk- Hertneck (Free Democrat Party - FDP),amid allegations that she leaked confidential information to former Economics Minister and B-W FDP chairman Walter Doering, triggered a call for new e [...]	2004-08-09 09:08:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON PINR GM
04FRANKFURT7197	Baden-Wuerttemberg Minister-President Teufel Forced to Decla [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent events have led to calls for Baden-Wuerttem Minister-President Erwin Teufel (Christian Democrat -- CDU) to step d Teufel's role in securing lucrative private sector jobs for retiring face on calling new elections after the resignation of his FDP Justic have angered the B- [...]	2004-08-19 11:40:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON PINR GM
04FRANKFURT7332	Hesse Social Democrats Weakened by Infighting as [...] (SBU) Torn by increasing internal opposition to Agenda 2010 reforms and plagued by declining membership, Hesse Social Democrats have been unable to serve as an effective foil to the Christian Democrat (CDU) government of Minister- President Roland Koch. Smaller parties like the Free Democrat [...]	2004-08-24 13:01:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON PINR GM
04FRANKFURT737	Sanofi-Aventis Takeover Battle Ignites Political [...] Sanofi-Synthelabo's bid to take over French-German pharmaceutical company Aventis has sparked resistance in Germany, particularly over French government remarks suggesting that Germany will absorb all the job losses. 2. The Sanofi-Synthelabo bid is facing fierce resistance in Hesse, locatio [...]	2004-01-30 07:39:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PGOV GM
04FRANKFURT7642	Christian Democrats Likely to Win Absolute Majority [...] (SBU) Bolstered by the popularity of Minister-President Peter Mueller, the Saarland CDU (Christian Democrats) likely will retain its majority in September 5 state elections and improve on the party's 1999 result, when they won 45 percent of the vote. Opposition Social Democrats (SPD) could se [...]	2004-09-02 13:39:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL GM
04FRANKFURT772	Uproar Follows Plan to Relocate German Crime Bureau [...] SUMMARY. Protests against the German government's surprise proposal to relocate to Berlin much of the BKA (Bundeskriminalamt - German equivalent of the FBI) have prompted the Interior Ministry to back down for the moment. Interior Minister Otto Schily (SPD/Social Democrat) announced in early J [...]	2004-01-30 14:54:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PGOV PINR GM
04FRANKFURT7903	CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS RETAIN ABSOLUTE MAJORITY IN [...] (U) Led by popular Minister-President Peter Mueller, Saarland Christian Democrats (CDU) netted an impressive 47.5% of the vote in September 5 elections and defended their absolute majority in the state assembly. Damaged by public disenchantment with Hartz IV reforms (Ref A),Social Democrats [...]	2004-09-10 14:52:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL GM
04FRANKFURT8020	German Real Estate Corruption Scandal Implicates [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Frankfurt prosecutors will soon issue corruption indictments against fund managers, architects, and builders in a series of large real estate deals across Germany. The alleged corruption includes bribes and a number of transactions in which participants pocketed bogus commissi [...]	2004-09-15 13:07:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCOR ECON EINV PGOV PINR GM
04FRANKFURT8336	European Commission Blinks on French and German [...] (SBU) Summary: According to European Commission, French and German Finance Ministry officials, the Commission is likely to await the 2005 national budgets for France and Germany at year's end before deciding its next step against the two under the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). If [...]	2004-09-27 08:17:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
04FRANKFURT8337	European Commission Proposes Changes to Stability [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 3 the European Commission initiated a discussion of possible changes to the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). The Commission is seeking to find a balance between flexibility that accommodates individual country circumstances and strict rules that instill [...]	2004-09-27 08:17:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
04FRANKFURT8521	FRANKFURT AIRPORT MANAGEMENT DISPUTES MEDIA [...] (C) Over the past few months, German media outlets, on a number of occasions, have reported negatively on Frankfurt Airport (Fraport) customs enforcement and its control of restricted areas. In a meeting with consulate representatives, senior Fraport officials said the airport is 100-percent [...]	2004-10-01 15:11:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC EAIR PTER SNAR GM
04FRANKFURT8667	Schroeder Calls for More Arab Support for Iraq [...] SUMMARY: In widely-publicized remarks at the Frankfurt Book Fair -- dedicated this year to the Arab world -- German Chancellor Schroeder reiterated German support for the war on terror and for stability in Iraq, calling on Arab states (specifically the Arab League) to take a more active role in [...]	2004-10-06 16:23:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINR PTER GM IZ
04FRANKFURT8717	Forecast for Germany: Moderate Growth, High [...] (SBU) Summary: Our forecast for Germany shows moderate real GDP growth of 1.7% in 2005 after 1.8% in 2004. The government deficit should top 4% of GDP this year, then decline to 3.5% in 2005, based on current policies. Persistent joblessness in western Germany, and even more so in the East, [...]	2004-10-08 10:55:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EUN
04FRANKFURT8977	GM/OPEL JOB CUTS, LABOR UNREST, AND PLANT CLOSURES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: General Motors has announced plans for massive job cuts and future plant closures at European subsidiary Opel, sparking labor unrest, including a wildcat strike at the Opel plant in Bochum beginning October 14, and reactions from federal and state ministers. The Hesse state gov [...]	2004-10-18 16:13:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB EIND GM
04FRANKFURT9010	BUNDESBANK CHEERS REFORMS BUT WORRIES WHETHER [...] (C) SUMMARY. Bundesbank analysts see tangible results coming out of the current labor-market reforms and a modest improvement in German competitiveness, but not enough to engineer a strong turnaround. Further reforms are necessary, e.g., to expand the number of employed, but the Bundesbank f [...]	2004-10-19 15:02:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ENRG GM
04FRANKFURT9039	LOW-COST CARRIERS GIVE STUTTGART UNEXPECTED BOOM [...] SUMMARY: In September 2004, the Stuttgart Airport experienced the largest year-on-year growth in its history (over 900,000 passengers). In 2004, airport management expects a total of 8.6 million passengers (up 12%). The airport's recent boom is largely due to low-cost carriers Germanwings [...]	2004-10-20 13:03:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON SENV GM
04FRANKFURT9139	Baden-Wuerttemberg Minister-President Teufel [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent speculation by Baden- Wuerttemberg Christian Democrat (CDU) Minister-President Erwin Teufel on a possible bid for re-election has added fuel to the state's smoldering leadership debate. Several party organizations, including the Junge Union (the CDU's youth organizatio [...]	2004-10-22 15:24:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PINR GM
04FRANKFURT9141	Hesse Passes Germany's Most Far-Reaching Headscarf [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Christian-Democratic Hesse state government recently passed legislation banning all civil servants from wearing headscarves while on duty, a measure that goes far beyond approaches to the issue in other German states. Opposition parties harshly criticized the law and predict [...]	2004-10-22 15:25:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV GM
04FRANKFURT9143	RHEINLAND-PFALZ MINISTER-PRESIDENT BECK ASKS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an October 7 meeting with the Ambassador, Rheinland-Pfalz (R-P) Minister-President Kurt Beck (SPD/Social Democrats) reiterated the state's support for U.S. troops based there and asked that the USG back efforts to minimize damage from the Global Defense Posture Review, particu [...]	2004-10-22 16:25:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV GM
04FRANKFURT9221	SEIZURE BY CBP OF SIX CONTAINERS FROM [...] (SBU) Summary: Six containers with textiles represented as being made in Armenia were detained over the three month period of July, August, and September by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) due to concerns related to the country of origin. Contact with officials at CBP Headquarters, Wash [...]	2004-10-27 13:22:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC ECON EAID ETRD AM
04FRANKFURT9252	Baden-Wuerttemberg Minister-President To Step Down [...] (U) SUMMARY: Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) Minister President Erwin Teufel announced October 25 that he will relinquish the offices of Minister-President and CDU state chairman as of April 2005. Strife over designating a successor will complicate local politics and life for the national CDU. Bade [...]	2004-10-28 13:30:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
04FRANKFURT9266	FRANKFURT EAC CONVENED CONCERNING SECURITY POSTURE [...] (C) Frankfurt EAC convened 1500 hrs. 10/29 per request reftel to assess post security posture due to reports of Chairman Arafat's failing health. Present were CG, DPO, RSO, DHS, TSA, Consular, IMO, RSO Berlin, MGMT and ORCA. Assessment of the EAC at present is to remain at our current securi [...]	2004-10-29 05:55:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC PTER
05FRANKFURT1092	International Use of the Euro - Broadly Stable; [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Central Bank's (ECB) annual publication on the international role of the Euro concludes that the euro's role in international capital and foreign exchange markets and use as an international reserve currency "has remained largely stable," while "there have [...]	2005-02-04 15:56:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
05FRANKFURT1373	Lisbon Acton Program: Its All About Growth and [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 2 European Commission President Barroso presented his proposal to make economic growth and job creation the focus of EU activities for the next five years. To move beyond slogans, Barroso has proposed setting out who, the EC or member states, is respons [...]	2005-02-15 11:04:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
05FRANKFURT174	EU's Stability and Growth Pact: Tidying Up the [...] (SBU) Summary: In December the European Commission (EC) issued several statements for member states under the Stability and Growth Pact's (SGP) excessive deficit procedures (EDP). For Germany and France, the Commission acknowledged that (a) both would get an extra year, to 2005, to correct t [...]	2005-01-07 15:30:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EUN
05FRANKFURT2127	Saarland Takes New Steps to Fight TIP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The state of Saarland has announced several new measures targeting trafficking in persons (TIP). These include consolidating agencies responsible for TIP within the Interior Ministry. State Interior Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer will also highlight TIP at the upcoming co [...]	2005-03-15 06:51:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER SOCI GM
05FRANKFURT2147	SPD Bucks Trend, Wins Local Races in Hesse [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Social Democratic Party (SPD) candidates have won a series of off-cycle election victories in formerly Christian Democratic (CDU) governed areas in Hesse -- most recently in Kassel (Hesse's third largest city) -- signaling a competitive battle for communal elections in early 20 [...]	2005-03-15 13:04:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR GM
05FRANKFURT2410	New Legal Payments Framework: Monetary Integration [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Commission (EC) intends to propose a directive for payments services in the internal market by June or September. A legally consistent framework for the EU payments market, providing for transparency of payment services contracts, competition and consumer [...]	2005-03-24 11:52:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
05FRANKFURT2435	Stability Pact Revision: Art Imitates Life [...] (SBU) Summary: Ecofin's report that was approved by the European Council on improving the stability and growth pact (SGP) is a vindication of the Council's application of the SGP, not its demise. While the Council had always implicitly considered prolonged economic stagnation and [...]	2005-03-24 15:40:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
05FRANKFURT2478	Pilot Project to Introduce Muslim Religious [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a first for Germany, the Baden- Wuerttemberg (B-W) state government will introduce religious instruction for Muslims in select public elementary schools beginning next year. Twelve schools will participate in the program's initial four-year pilot program. Five years in the m [...]	2005-03-30 08:21:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KISL PHUM PGOV GM
05FRANKFURT2671	Structures and Trends in German Banking Industry: [...] (SBU) Summary: There is a lively debate about whether the relatively poor performance of the German banking sector is related to its "three pillar" structure of (1) private commercial, (2) public state and savings, and (3) cooperative banks. The discussions were triggere [...]	2005-04-05 13:08:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
05FRANKFURT2973	Torch Passing in Conservative Bastion: Baden- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 21, Baden-Wuerttemberg CDU (Christian Democratic) caucus chief Guenther Oettinger will succeed Erwin Teufel as Minister-President. Oettinger, a lawyer and business expert, will likely retain Teufel's cabinet through state elections in March 2006. Observers expect Oe [...]	2005-04-15 05:58:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PINR GM
05FRANKFURT3004	Baden-Wuerttemberg NGOs Target TIP Demand Reduction [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Baden-Wuerttemberg NGO Women's Information Center (Fraueninformationszentrum) and Protestant charity Diakonisches Werk (DW) have pioneered a new TIP (trafficking in persons) secular outreach program centered on reducing demand for trafficking victims forced to work as prosti [...]	2005-04-15 14:56:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PGOV KWMN SMIG GM
05FRANKFURT312	EU Financial Supervisory Framework: Standing on [...] (SBU) Summary: The EU-wide financial supervisory framework created and made operational in less than three years is about to come into its own. The three new supervisory committees, the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR),the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) a [...]	2005-01-13 12:01:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EUN
05FRANKFURT315	The Other Frankfurt Airport -- Frankfurt-Hahn [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, a former US airbase, is now one of Germany's fastest growing regional airports and its fourth-largest air-cargo center. A hub for leading low-cost carrier RyanAir, Hahn managers see limited future potential in the low-cost segment and are focused on grow [...]	2005-01-13 12:49:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON ELTN GM
05FRANKFURT3867	New Baden-Wuerttemberg State Cabinet [...] (U) SUMMARY: After assuming office (ref A),new Baden- Wuerttemberg (B-W) Minister President Guenther Oettinger (CDU/Christian Democrat) reshuffled the long-standing state government and laid out an extensive program to gain re-election in March 2006. On April 29, Oettinger replaced former M- [...]	2005-05-20 12:13:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PINR GM
05FRANKFURT3872	Private Islamic Dialogue Forum Tackles Extremism, [...] (SBU) A high-profile national conference of the German Islamforum (established in 2002 to facilitate dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims),meeting in Frankfurt on April 26, stressed cooperation but revealed differences between the two groups. Participants included national Green Party co [...]	2005-05-20 14:03:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KISL PGOV PHUM GM TK
05FRANKFURT4005	Frankfurt Worries About Its Economic Future [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent developments including the failure of the Frankfurt-based German Stock Exchange to take over its London counterpart have sparked concerns over the economic future of the Frankfurt/Rhein-Main area in comparison to other European metropoles. With slow growth in the area's [...]	2005-05-25 14:55:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV PINR GM
05FRANKFURT4506	Nuclear Energy Phase-Out Continues Amid Uncertainty [...] SUMMARY: The phase-out of nuclear power in Germany took a major step in mid-May with the decommissioning of the country's oldest nuclear power plant at Obrigheim in the state of Baden- Wuerttemberg. While Green party leaders and environmental groups celebrated the move with a "phase-out fes [...]	2005-06-14 14:45:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON SENV PGOV GM
05FRANKFURT4988	Stability and Growth Pact: Revived, Passes First [...] (SBU) Summary: Even before modifications of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) were adopted by the Council on June 27, the European Commission (EC) had passed its first test applying the "spirit" of the new rules to Italy and Portugal. The EC's recommendations that thes [...]	2005-07-01 12:58:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EUN
05FRANKFURT5048	German Finance Agency Issues USD Bond [...] (SBU) Summary: The German Finance Agency made news with its first borrowing in US dollars since World War II, a cool USD 5 billion. The move was taken in response to Asian demand and to save money, but does not mark the beginning of a regular dollar-borrowing program by [...]	2005-07-05 13:30:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
05FRANKFURT5056	The Chancellor and Hedge Funds [...] (SBU) Summary: Chancellor Schroeder has pledged to raise "standards for hedge funds" at the G-8 Summit. His position reflects a negative characterization, publicly stated by the Chairman of the SDP and others in the Chancellor's party, of investors fixed on quick financi [...]	2005-07-05 14:53:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
05FRANKFURT549	Germany's Economy Grows in 2004: Break Out the [...] (SBU) Summary: Germany's Federal Statistical Office reported that Germany's economy grew 1.7% in real terms last year. Even taking into account that 0.6 percentage points of that growth came from extra working days, the growth was higher than any experienced since 2000. The cause for celebr [...]	2005-01-21 09:36:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EUN
05FRANKFURT5998	DALAI LAMA VISITS GERMANY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dalai Lama paid a three-day visit to Frankfurt and Wiesbaden to receive one of Germany's most prestigious awards (the Hesse Peace Prize). Hesse Minister-President Roland Koch (CDU/Christian Democrat) drew praise from across the political spectrum for his endorsement of the [...]	2005-08-05 14:27:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PINR GM CH XD
05FRANKFURT6687	NGO Initiatives to Reduce Demand for Trafficked Persons [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Lutheran Church and other NGOs in southwestern Germany report progress in increasing Germans' awareness of the issue of trafficking in persons (TIP),particularly among potential clients of prostitutes. There are indications that more men are contacting police and NGOs to repor [...]	2005-09-02 11:18:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN SMIG PGOV GM
05FRANKFURT6748	Lafontaine - a Man to Watch in Home State of [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Polls suggest that Germany's new Left Party (Linkspartei) could post a breakthrough performance in Saarland -- the home of party Co-Chairman (and former Minister-President) Oskar Lafontaine -- further compounding the SPD's decline in a former stronghold. By splitting the Social [...]	2005-09-07 06:53:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV GM
05FRANKFURT6995	Hesse to Deport Afghan Hate Preacher [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The German state of Hesse has initiated deportation proceedings against Mr. Said Khobaib Sadat (DPOB 1 January 1959 in Logar, Afghanistan),an Afghan imam living in Offenbach, near Frankfurt, for reportedly being a "hate- preacher," a crime under the immigration law that went int [...]	2005-09-14 14:05:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KISL PHUM GM AF
05FRANKFURT7078	AMERICA IN THE CAMPAIGN: SNAPSHOT FROM SW GERMANY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In Frankfurt's relatively pro-American district, attitudes towards the U.S. and U.S. foreign policy appear to play a smaller role in this German election campaign than in 2002. While some on the left have tried to raise issues of war and peace, overall the campaign in our dis [...]	2005-09-19 06:21:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL GM
05FRANKFURT7207	Drama in EU Clearing and Settlement Heightens: US [...] (SBU) Summary: European securities infrastructure industry of stock exchanges, clearing and settlement activities is among the most dynamic in the financial industry, undergoing substantial change in the last decade. As the European Commission (EC) prepares to decide whe [...]	2005-09-23 11:50:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
05FRANKFURT7398	POLICE ARREST THIRTY-EIGHT IN RAIDS AGAINST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Police targeted criminal elements of the Muslim community in large-scale raids across the German state of Hessen on September 27. In total, thirty-eight individuals were arrested--although none were confirmed extremists. Police stated that the raids were based on ongoing inves [...]	2005-09-29 13:41:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC KCRM KISL GM
05FRANKFURT7722	Major TIP Trial in Mannheim, Germany [...] (U) SUMMARY: Criminal proceedings began recently in Mannheim against six persons accused of trafficking approximately thirty Romanian women into Germany in 2003 and 2004. The young women were recruited with promises of employment as cooks and babysitters, but allegedly were beaten and raped (i [...]	2005-10-24 09:12:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SMIG KCRM KWMN ELAB PGOV GM
05FRANKFURT8115	CG Frankfurt Iftaar Bolsters Ties, U.S. Image [...] (U) ConGen Frankfurt recently hosted its first Iftaar event (featuring U.S. Army Muslim chaplains) during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as part of our outreach to the large Muslim community in Post's district. The many guests expressed their gratitude and praised USG efforts to reach out t [...]	2005-11-09 14:54:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KISL PGOV PHUM GM
05FRANKFURT8181	Scenesetter/Visit of Baden-Wuerttemberg M-P Oettinger [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 14-15, Baden-Wuerttemberg Minister- President Guenther Oettinger (CDU/Christian Democrats) will make his first official visit to Washington. A political moderate, Oettinger leads one of Germany's largest and economically most successful states. Oettinger is favored t [...]	2005-11-10 16:01:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PINR GM
05FRANKFURT8529	Controversial Headscarf Ban Proposed In State of [...] (SBU) The Christian Democrat/Free Democrat (CDU/FDP) Baden-Wuerttemberg state government is drafting controversial legislation that would ban public kindergarten teachers from wearing headscarves. Opposition parties and city officials oppose the legislation, arguing that local communities sho [...]	2005-11-25 16:06:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KISL PGOV SCUL SOCI GM
05FRANKFURT8530	Upcoming Elections in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Rheinland- [...] (U) SUMMARY: Voters in Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz will go to the polls in March, the first state election test for the "grand coalition" government in Berlin. Most observers expect that both state governments will win reelection. Rheinland-Pfalz Minister-President (M-P) Kurt Beck ( [...]	2005-11-25 16:06:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV GM
05FRANKFURT8965	GULF BETWEEN KEY MUSLIM ORGANIZATION AND HESSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tensions between the Hesse state government and the IRH (Islamische Religionsgemeinschaft Hessen, the state's largest Muslim umbrella organization) have simmered since the state listed the IRH in its annual report on extremism. The dispute came to the forefront again at IRH's h [...]	2005-12-14 17:08:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER KISL KPAO GM
06FRANKFURT1273	March 26 Elections in Rheinland-Pfalz/Baden-Wuerttemberg [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With four weeks until state elections in Rheinland-Pfalz and Baden-Wuerttemberg, polls show both state governments in the lead. In Rheinland-Pfalz, the SPD/FDP coalition (Social Democratic/Free Democratic) is banking on the popularity of long-time Minister-President Kurt Beck ( [...]	2006-02-24 15:02:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
06FRANKFURT1288	Hesse Local Election Update [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 26, Hesse will hold state-wide communal (local) elections in the most important test this year for Minister-President Roland Koch (CDU/Christian Democrats). The SPD/Social Democratic Party (which holds the most mayoral and local assembly seats in the state) is hoping to [...]	2006-02-24 16:00:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
06FRANKFURT1927	March 26 Elections in Rheinland-Pfalz/Baden-Wuerttemberg [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the days leading up to March 26 state elections, Rheinland-Pfalz (R-P) Minister-President Kurt Beck (SPD/Social Democrats) and Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) Minister- President Guenther Oettinger (CDU/Christian Democrats) appear to be leading in their efforts to win re-election. [...]	2006-03-21 16:15:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
06FRANKFURT2124	SPD Gains Majority in Rheinland-Pfalz; Baden- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: March 26 state elections strengthened both Rheinland-Pfalz (R-P) Minister-President Kurt Beck (SPD/Social Democrats) and Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) Minister-President Guenther Oettinger (CDU/Christian Democrats). Beck's popularity gave the ruling SPD an absolute seat majority and [...]	2006-03-28 10:55:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
06FRANKFURT4083	State-Wide Raids Target Radical Muslims in Baden- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 1, law enforcement officials throughout the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) conducted large- scale raids in areas they believed were frequented by Muslim extremists. State officials say they obtained no specific terrorist-related information, but believe the rai [...]	2006-06-13 12:12:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC KISL GM
06FRANKFURT4232	TIP: Follow-Up on Pre-World Cup Raids in State of Hesse [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In pre-World Cup raids against forced prostitution and trafficking in the German state of Hesse on May 10, German law enforcement officials detained 74 persons. Police and NGOs are now working with prostitutes to identify trafficking victims and build cases against pimps/traffic [...]	2006-06-21 06:51:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC GM
06FRANKFURT4316	New Cabinets in Rheinland-Pfalz, Baden-Wuerttemberg -- Few [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 18 and June 14, state parliaments in Rheinland-Pfalz (R-P) and Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) re-elected incumbent Minister-Presidents Kurt Beck (SPD/Social Democrats) and Guenther Oettinger (CDU/Christian Democrats) respectively. In addition to full support from their own par [...]	2006-06-23 12:22:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
06FRANKFURT4327	Two German States Tackle Demographic Challenges [...] SUMMARY: The states of Hesse and Saarland, like much of Germany, face tectonic shifts as their populations stagnate and age. Whereas Saarland is home to Western Germany's most rapidly shrinking population, Hesse's uneven growth is causing public policy challenges. Their differing approaches t [...]	2006-06-23 14:51:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI ECON ELAB PGOV GM
06FRANKFURT4401	German officials make Ansar al-Islam arrest, bring other [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 12 German police arrested "Burhan B." at Frankfurt Airport and charged him with breaking German export laws and with membership and support for Ansar al-Islam. Separately, on June 20 authorities launched the trial of Ata Abdoulaziz Rashid and two accomplices. They stand [...]	2006-06-27 15:03:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC KISL IZ GM
06FRANKFURT5016	Court Ruling on Headscarf Raises New Questions on Ban [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 7, the Stuttgart Regional Court ruled that public school teacher Doris Graber should be permitted to wear her headscarf in class. While the court recognized that a headscarf violates religious neutrality, it acknowledged that it cannot prohibit a headscarf while allowing C [...]	2006-07-25 14:20:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KISL GM
06FRANKFURT7499	Ansar al-Islam Trial Update [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The trial of three suspected members of Ansar al-Islam accused of plotting to assassinate then-Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi during a visit to Germany in December 2004 is ongoing in Stuttgart-Stammheim (a high-security court facility). One defendant has spoken out in recent proceed [...]	2006-10-31 15:30:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC KISL IZ GM
06FRANKFURT7622	German MOI Standoff on TSA Air Security Inspections [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration (TSA) regularly conducts observations of both U.S. and German carriers in Germany at airports with direct service to the U.S., as mandated under U.S. law. Recently, the German Ministry of the Interior ( [...]	2006-11-06 14:49:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR KSEC PTER ASEC GM
06FRANKFURT7767	GM Europe Working on Fuel Cell, Other New Transport [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: General Motors Europe representatives, meeting with visiting Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chairman James Connaughton, described the work being done in the facility to develop passenger vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells as well as work on intermediate technologie [...]	2006-11-13 15:50:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON SENV GM
06FRANKFURT7910	Hesse/Roland Koch in Party Financing "Blackmail" Scandal [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A week before Hesse Minister-President Roland Koch (CDU/Christian Democrats) expects to be elected CDU national deputy chairman, he finds himself entangled in a scandal over taxpayer-funded campaign financing. Koch is accused of using public financing to entice a competing part [...]	2006-11-21 09:09:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR TBIO GM
06FRANKFURT7924	ALLEGED FRANKFURT AIRPORT TERROR PLOT DISRUPTED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: German authorities temporarily detained six suspected terrorists November 17 for alleged involvement in a plot to blow up an aircraft, presumably from Frankfurt International Airport. END SUMMARY. The Alleged Plot ---------------- 2. (SBU) According to a press release fro [...]	2006-11-21 14:36:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER ASEC PGOV KISL JO KU IZ GM
06FRANKFURT8092	SPD Left-wing Prevails / Ypsilanti to Challenge Koch [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the Hesse SPD/Social Democratic Party state convention December 2, party chairperson Andrea Ypsilanti edged out centrist Caucus Chief Juergen Walter for the right to challenge Hesse Minister-President Roland Koch (CDU/Christian Democrats) in January 2008. Walter, who had won [...]	2006-12-04 15:27:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR TBIO GM
06FRANKFURT8141	German Women, Economy Stuck at Glass Ceiling [...] In a city of skyscrapers and boardrooms, the absence of top female management in Frankfurt is striking -- nor is Frankfurt unique in Germany. The "glass ceiling" for women in the German workforce is remarkably pervasive and persistent, fueling Germany's demographic problems and lowering potent [...]	2006-12-08 14:46:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI KWMN ECON ELAB PGOV GM
07FRANKFURT1182	FRONTEX: EU Border Control Cooperation at Frankfurt Airport [...] SUMMARY: In a February 19-March 9 joint operation, FRONTEX border security guards from seven EU countries are screening passengers at Frankfurt Airport to curb illegal entry to the EU. FRONTEX officials are pleased with the operation, which has netted fifteen detentions, mainly from South Amer [...]	2007-03-12 09:58:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	SMIG ASEC EAIR PBTS PREL GM
07FRANKFURT1199	FRONTEX: EU Border Control Cooperation at Frankfurt Airport [...] SUMMARY: In a February 19-March 9 joint operation, FRONTEX border security guards from seven EU countries are screening passengers at Frankfurt Airport to curb illegal entry to the EU. FRONTEX officials are pleased with the operation, which has netted fifteen detentions, mainly from South Amer [...]	2007-03-13 08:36:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	SMIG ASEC EAIR PBTS PREL GM
07FRANKFURT1218	Blue Lantern Level 3: Pre-License End-Use Check Completed [...] (SBU) On March 8, ConGen Frankfurt Pol-Econ officer and Pol-Econ specialist visited MSI Aircraft Maintenance Services International GmbH, located in Ruesselsheim (near Frankfurt) to conduct a Blue Lantern pre-license end-use check on application 050025683 (export of EC-135 helicopter spare part [...]	2007-03-13 15:08:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KOMC ETTC GM
07FRANKFURT1245	MEETING WITH DRESDNER BANK ON SUSPECTED DPRK [...] (C) SUMMARY. Post called the attention of Dresdner Bank to information that it may have facilitated (intentionally or not) a transaction for OFAC-designated Tanchon Commercial Bank. Dresdner representatives promised to look into the report and asked for more information (ACTION REQUEST IN PAR [...]	2007-03-14 16:01:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN ETTC GM
07FRANKFURT1289	Blue Lantern Level 3: Post-Shipment End-Use Check Completed [...] (SBU) Consulate Pol-Econ officer visited Roeder Praezision, located in Egelsbach (near Frankfurt) on March 1 to conduct a Blue Lantern post-shipment verification check for licenses 05-982891 and 05-984718. P-E officer met at length with General Manager Oliver Baer and Defense/Public Contracts [...]	2007-03-16 14:51:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KOMC ETTC GM
07FRANKFURT1315	Neo-Nazi Influence In Elite Frankfurt Police Unit [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Media revealed this week that at least three members of an elite Frankfurt-based police unit that provides close personal protection to public figures (among them Jewish leaders and CG Frankfurt) had neo-Nazi affiliations. ConGen Frankfurt was told the allegations first emerged [...]	2007-03-19 14:23:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC SCUL GM
07FRANKFURT171	NATIONAL FDP MEETS IN STUTTGART, SEEKS TO REPRESENT "THE [...] SUMMARY: At this year's annual "Three Kings" gathering of the national Free Democratic Party (FDP) on January 6 in Stuttgart, party leader Guido Westerwelle used the occasion to stake out a middle-of-the-road course for his party -- seeking to change the reputation of the FDP as a party for th [...]	2007-01-12 12:10:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV GM
07FRANKFURT1842	Baden-Wuerttemberg Minister President Survives Controversy [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Baden-Wuerttemberg Minister-President Guenther Oettinger (CDU/Christian Democrats) came under intense fire over an April 11 eulogy for former CDU state head Hans Filbinger (forced to resign in 1978 over his Nazi-era service as a military judge). The Jewish Central Council called [...]	2007-04-17 13:54:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
07FRANKFURT1872	Fast Cars and Hot Times in Southwest Germany [...] SUMMARY: The southwest German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) -- an economic powerhouse and conservative bulwark with a growing environmental movement -- is waking up to climate change now that a recent study shows that a dramatic temperature rise is underway in the region. In response to t [...]	2007-04-19 13:57:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ENRG PGOV GM
07FRANKFURT220	FURTHER STEPS AGAINST PKK: RAIDS, ARREST, PRISON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: German efforts against the PKK were again apparent this past week in southwest Germany with targeted raids, an arrest of one suspected PKK leader, and the sentencing of another to two years in prison. END SUMMARY. Anti-PKK Raids and an Arrest ---------------------------- [...]	2007-01-17 08:46:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC KTFN KCRM GM TU
07FRANKFURT258	EnBW Opens Latest Chapter in Germany's Nuclear Energy [...] SUMMARY: With its request to lengthen the life of thirty-year-old nuclear power plant Neckarwestheim I (scheduled for decommissioning in 2008),EnBW -- southwest Germany's largest energy supplier -- is posing an indirect challenge to the "Nuclear Phase-Out" plan legislated by Germany's then [...]	2007-01-18 15:06:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG SENV PGOV GM
07FRANKFURT2892	Moncrief Sues BASF Over Gazprom Gasfield Contracts [...] SUMMARY: U.S.-based Moncrief Oil International has filed suit against German chemical giant BASF in a German regional court seeking EUR 6.3 billion in compensation for BASF's alleged role in a cancelled Gazprom concession. Moncrief signed a contract with Gazprom in 1997 to exploit 40 percent o [...]	2007-06-20 05:38:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EINV GM RS
07FRANKFURT3022	Hesse State Election Preview: SPD Gaining Ground? [...] SUMMARY. Six months before Hesse state elections (January 2008),both major parties have presented their economic programs. Following an ambitious program from Social Democratic challenger Andrea Ypsilanti, Hesse Minister President Koch has presented a slightly populist program which is light [...]	2007-06-26 08:12:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR TBIO GM
07FRANKFURT3043	States, Industry Still Pin Hopes on Galileo Project [...] SUMMARY: The EU's Galileo positioning/navigation/timing (PNT) project, despite its well-publicized woes (reftels),remains a beacon to state officials and industry/research in southwestern Germany,, home to ESA/European Space Agency's "Houston" (the Darmstadt control center) and much high-tech [...]	2007-06-26 13:21:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA SENV KTIA SPCE GM
07FRANKFURT320	Opel/GM Europe Upswing, Return to the U.S. Market [...] SUMMARY: Led by German subsidiary Opel, General Motors (GM) Europe posted a profit of $186 million in 2006 (through September) en route to its projected first full-year profit in Europe since 1999. Opel in particular has reason to celebrate since it will soon produce more Saab/Vauxhall model [...]	2007-01-24 06:33:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EIND ELAB ECON GM
07FRANKFURT3223	Kurt Beck: Profile of a Pragmatic Social Democrat [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Social Democratic/SPD national chairman and Rheinland-Pfalz Minister-President Kurt Beck rose to power as a centrist leader combining political bridge-building with charm appeal to a working-class and often rural base. Having achieved prominence via hard work and charisma rathe [...]	2007-07-09 10:42:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
07FRANKFURT3233	Lackluster NPD Demonstration in Frankfurt: "The Nation not [...] SUMMARY: On July 7, 500 to 700 NPD supporters demonstrated in Frankfurt under the slogan "the Nation not Globalization," repeating themes of far-right protesters of the G-8 summit in Heiligendamm in early June. The Frankfurt city government licensed the demonstration in the Neue Borse, an indus [...]	2007-07-10 07:40:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KCRM ASEC GM
07FRANKFURT4380	Left Party Stumbles in Hesse [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. With the Left Party's national leadership focused on broadening its voter base, particularly in the west, it scrambled to undo damage caused by the Hesse Left's election of communist Pit Metz as its candidate in the January 27 state elections and his subsequent resignation. The [...]	2007-09-26 08:48:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL GM
07FRANKFURT445	Stuttgart Ansar al-Islam Trial Continues [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ongoing trial in Stuttgart of three suspected members of Ansar al-Islam is now expected to last at least until April - and perhaps even until the fall. The Federal Prosecutor has charged the three with plotting to assassinate then-Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi during a visit t [...]	2007-01-31 10:27:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC KISL IZ GM
07FRANKFURT4614	Muslim Community and German City Sign Innovative [...] SUMMARY. The German city of Wiesbaden and nine Muslim community organizations signed a long-discussed, groundbreaking integration agreement September 27. The agreement, wherein the city and the Muslim community pledge to cooperate in a number of areas, is the first of its kind at any level in [...]	2007-10-16 10:18:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KISL GM
07FRANKFURT4624	THE ECB STEPS IN AS GERMANY'S LARGEST BANK FEELS SUBPRIME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 3 Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest commercial bank, announced it would write off 2.2 billion euros ($3.12 billion) in losses based in investments in U.S. mortgage-backed securities, ending several weeks of speculation about the bank's exposure to subprime debt. The f [...]	2007-10-17 08:57:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON GM
07FRANKFURT4823	SPD's New Direction to Face Test in Hesse Election [...] At the October 26-28 Social Democratic Party (SPD) national convention, the party's decision to adopt a platform advocating greater "social justice" bolstered the prestige of the Hesse SPD. Facing a state election in January 2008, Hesse SPD candidate Andrea Ypsilanti gained influence and esteem [...]	2007-11-02 11:53:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
07FRANKFURT4944	Commerzbank Announces Third Quarter Write-Offs [...] Summary. The release of third quarter earnings reports has shed further light on the extent of the damage caused by subprime investments in the German banking industry, with Commerzbank, Germany's second largest private bank, reporting larger write-offs than originally anticipated. While Com [...]	2007-11-15 13:20:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON GM

07FRANKFURT4996	Why Beck Stayed Home [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Social Democratic Party (SPD) Chairman Kurt Beck has decided against taking the Vice Chancellorship left open by Labor Minister Franz Muentefering's surprise resignation (ref A). Beck will continue instead as Minister-President of the state of Rheinland-Pfalz (R-P). In the view [...]	2007-11-23 06:35:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR GM
07FRANKFURT501	Islamic Religious Classes in Baden-Wuerttemberg: Positive [...] (U) SUMMARY: In September 2006, Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) became the latest German state to offer Islamic religious instruction in public schools. On January 17, the Consul General and state officials observed a class at the Rosensteinschule in Stuttgart, one of twelve elementary schools taking [...]	2007-02-02 13:55:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SCUL KISL GM
07FRANKFURT5173	Frankfurt Stock Exchange: Meeting Global Capital [...] SUMMARY: The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE) is the world's third largest and the sixth by market capitalization. Known for its high-tech trading technology, it has played a lead role in cementing Germany's reputation as a financial and economic power. However in an increasingly securitized w [...]	2007-12-07 10:25:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON GM
07FRANKFURT5275	Hesse Enters Energy Debate [...] SUMMARY: The Hesse state government intends to introduce a bill in the upper chamber of the German federal parliament (Bundesrat) in early 2008 offering an alternative strategy for energy deregulation in Germany. Under the plan, the federal government will be able to force energy suppliers to [...]	2007-12-18 11:23:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG SENV GM
07FRANKFURT5291	Headscarf Laws Withstand Challenge in Germany [...] Summary: The Hesse State Constitutional Court upheld a state law last week that prohibits civil servants from wearing religious symbols and attire. One of eight similar laws in effect in Germany's federal states, the law as applied allows state institutions to prevent civil servants, includin [...]	2007-12-19 08:54:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KISL GM
07FRANKFURT531	Naturalized Islamic Fundamentalists: Hesse Court Reverses [...] (U) SUMMARY: On January 18, the Hesse Administrative Court in Kassel ruled in favor of four naturalized Germans of Turkish origin after the state stripped their citizenship for not having reported being members in the fundamentalist Islamic group Milli Goerus (IGMG). Striking down an earlier f [...]	2007-02-05 15:31:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SCUL KISL GM
07FRANKFURT594	RAF Parole/Clemency Bids Divide Body Politic, Legal System; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the controversial parole bid of German "Red Army Faction" left-wing terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt -- a case with implications for other incarcerated RAF members -- the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe has recommended that the Stuttgart Regional Court grant Mohnhaupt pa [...]	2007-02-08 11:40:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KCRM ASEC GM
07FRANKFURT671	Social Democratic Leader on Trans-Atlantic Relations, U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 1, national SPD Chairman and Rheinland-Pfalz Minister-President Kurt Beck spoke with the Consul General at the state chancellery in Mainz, praising trans-Atlantic relations, raising concerns about military stationing issues, and offering his take on goals for the Germ [...]	2007-02-12 14:14:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR GM
07FRANKFURT694	Muslim Extremists Deported from Baden-Wuerttemberg [...] (U) SUMMARY: State authorities deported two Islamic extremists from Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) in late January according to reports from the state interior ministry. B-W Interior Minister Rech cites the deportations as evidence of his state's strong anti-extremism efforts. The deportees hail fr [...]	2007-02-13 14:07:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER SMIG ASEC KISL GM
07FRANKFURT731	TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT MEETS BUNDESBANK [...] (C) SUMMARY. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Kimmitt met February 12 with Bundesbank President Axel Weber to review the state of Germany's economy, financial market regulation, and key transatlantic economic issues. D/S Kimmitt and Weber agreed on the need for open investment regimes [...]	2007-02-15 11:17:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD GM
07FRANKFURT732	TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT MEETS [...] (C) At a meeting with Commerzbank CEO Klaus-Peter Mueller and board member Martin Blessing on February 12, Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt discussed implementation of UNSCR 1737 and the need for banks to &know their customers8 in Iran. Mueller outlined Commerzbank actions to comply wi [...]	2007-02-15 11:17:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD GM
07FRANKFURT782	LEADING GERMAN HUMAN RIGHTS NGO SEEKING USG [...] (U) This is an action cable (action request in paragraph 9). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Conservative German human rights NGO "International Society for Human Rights" (IGFM/ISHR) would like to partner informally with the USG and U.S. organizations on Iran, North Korea, and persecuted Christians. The [...]	2007-02-16 13:57:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PREL GM IR KN CU CH
08FRANKFURT1001	German Economy Holds its Breath for Financial Crisis to [...] SUMMARY. The international financial crisis has so far had a limited impact in Germany and many analysts contend the EU and emerging markets will pick up most of the slack from lower exports to the U.S. The soaring euro and a continuing stream of write-downs by German banks have shaken confid [...]	2008-04-04 09:07:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EU GM
08FRANKFURT1020	Law Enforcement Copes with Challenges of Global Terror in [...] (C) Summary. The September 4 arrests of three terror suspects tied to the Islamic Jihad Union highlighted the prevalence of Islamic extremism and homegrown terrorism in Baden-Wuerttemberg, a large and conservative southern German state. All three suspects, two of whom are German converts, sp [...]	2008-04-07 09:19:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KHLS KJUS PGOV ASEC GM
08FRANKFURT1066	Hesse Installs CDU Caretaker Government [...] SUMMARY: After months of contentious political deadlock, the newly-elected Hesse parliament convened April 5 and, as expected, failed to elect a government. As dictated by the state constitution, the current CDU cabinet stays on as a caretaker government under the leadership of Roland Koch. [...]	2008-04-08 13:39:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
08FRANKFURT124	Hesse Election Preview: CDU's Koch Steals the Headlines in [...] SUMMARY. Two weeks before the state elections in Hesse, Roland Koch (CDU) has made the controversial issue of immigrant juvenile crime a centerpiece of his campaign. The move has captured media attention and stolen the spotlight from rival parties in an election that, along with two others [...]	2008-01-11 14:49:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
08FRANKFURT1515	Daimler and Porsche: Differing Challenges in Reducing CO2 [...] SUMMARY: The proposed European Union directive requiring car manufacturers to lower CO2 emissions significantly by 2012 presents major challenges to Daimler and Porsche, both German manufacturers of high-end, high-powered automobiles. Neither firm has expressed confidence that it will reach th [...]	2008-05-19 05:37:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EIND ENRG PGOV SENV GM
08FRANKFURT1581	German Banks See Light at End of Subprime Tunnel, but Few [...] Summary: Following first quarter reports showing further write-downs, major German banks are beginning to see signs of recovery in the financial sector, as the real economy exceeds expectations in both growth and employment. Industry insiders see challenges ahead in finding new, profitable b [...]	2008-05-21 13:03:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EU GM
08FRANKFURT1588	Germany Says, Well, Hello Dalai: Spiritual Leader's Visit [...] (SBU) Summary. The Dalai Lama's visit to Germany sparked political controversy over who would meet with him and highlighted intra-coalition and, in the case of the SPD, intra-party disagreement (see septel from Berlin). The Dalai Lama himself remained above the fray, sticking to a message of [...]	2008-05-21 15:11:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM CH GM
08FRANKFURT1684	ECB Monetary Operations Have Unintended Effects on [...] Summary. Despite some signs of a return to financial stability in the euro zone, the dysfunctional state of interbank lending remains a cause of concern at the European Central Bank (ECB). Private banks continue to rely on the ECB for liquidity, reflecting ongoing confidence issues in the ban [...]	2008-05-29 09:28:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EU GM
08FRANKFURT1752	All Eyes on Left Party as Saarland Prepares for State [...] (U) SUMMARY: The announcement by Oskar Lafontaine, co-chair of the federal Left Party, that he will run as the Left Party's Minister President candidate in next year's Saarland state elections has alarmed the other parties and primes the Left Party for a strong showing. The latest statewide p [...]	2008-06-04 11:39:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GM
08FRANKFURT1756	Hesse's Ypsilanti Could Again Raise SPD-Left Party [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: More than four months after the Hesse state elections of January 2008 and more than two months of a CDU minority caretaker government, none of the political parties have been able to find an answer to the ongoing political stalemate. Cooperation on individual legislation in the [...]	2008-06-04 12:26:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GM
08FRANKFURT1817	TRIAL OF A.Q. KHAN LINKED DEFENDANT GOTTHARD LERCH RESUMES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 5, the 4th Senate of the Higher Regional Court (a federal court) in Stuttgart re-opened the trial of Gotthard Lerch, a German engineer allegedly linked to the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network. Lerch is accused of aiding the Libyan government in its efforts to acq [...]	2008-06-10 07:33:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM MNUC PREL KNNP ETTC KJUS KCRM GM
08FRANKFURT2057	Law Enforcement Confronts Home-Grown Terrorism in [...] (C) SUMMARY: The arrests of home-grown Muslim extremists who come from Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland, two small German states with few large cities, have drawn significant media attention and highlighted law enforcement's ongoing struggle with domestic terrorism in Germany. Currently both Alee [...]	2008-07-02 07:46:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KHLS KJUS PGOV ASEC GM
08FRANKFURT2271	Guilty Verdict in Ansar-al Islam Trial [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After more than two years of proceedings, on July 15 the Fifth Senate at the Higher Regional Court in Stuttgart announced guilty verdicts for all three defendants in the in the Ansar-al Islam trial. Ata Abdoulaziz Rashid received a ten years sentence, Mazen al-Hussein seven and [...]	2008-07-21 14:13:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC KISL IZ GM
08FRANKFURT2272	Defendant Testifies on Relationship with A.Q. Khan in [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the ongoing trial of Gotthard Lerch, the defendant unexpectedly testified in his own defense on July 11, denying any role in the activities of Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan. Lerch said he agreed to speak in his own defense after reading an avalanche of false accusati [...]	2008-07-21 14:16:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM MNUC PREL KNNP ETTC KJUS KCRM GM
08FRANKFURT2299	Frankfurt Financial Experts Express Pessimism on [...] Summary: With commodity prices soaring, the euro at an all time high, and financial turmoil in the U.S. in the headlines, worries of a recession and further shocks to the financial system remain high in Germany and Europe. Frankfurt-based financial and macroeconomic experts agree that growth [...]	2008-07-24 08:10:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EU GM
08FRANKFURT236	Hesse Election Update: Opposition Gaining, CDU Slipping in [...] SUMMARY. As it enters its final stage, the increasingly fierce and bitter Hesse state election has become a referendum on the polarizing figure of Minister President Roland Koch. Despite the campaign's intense focus on one person, victory or defeat on January 27 will shift momentum for the na [...]	2008-01-24 13:56:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
08FRANKFURT265	Hesse Election Damages CDU's Koch; Breakthrough for the [...] SUMMARY: The Hesse state election ended in a serious blow to the ruling CDU and Minister President Roland Koch, whose political career is now badly damaged after his divisive election strategy backfired. The election resulted in a virtual tie between the CDU and the SPD, with both sides, howe [...]	2008-01-28 14:02:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
08FRANKFURT2654	Porsche Steps up VW Takeover Effort [...] SUMMARY: Porsche, Germany's smallest automobile maker, has received permission from the EU to pursue a takeover of Volkswagen and has stepped up its efforts to acquire a majority stake in the company. Major hurdles remain, such as how to divide power in the supervisory board of a merged entit [...]	2008-08-25 09:43:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EIND ENRG PGOV SENV GM
08FRANKFURT2701	Hesse SPD Reignites Left Party Cooperation Debate [...] SUMMARY: The Hesse SPD is once again playing with fire by moving forward with plans to form a SPD-Green minority government supported by the Left Party. Simply reopening the question of cooperation with the Left has already unleashed a firestorm of debate in the national press, fomented infigh [...]	2008-08-28 12:16:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
08FRANKFURT2702	Hesse SPD Reignites Left Party Cooperation Debate [...] SUMMARY: The Hesse SPD is once again playing with fire by moving forward with plans to form a SPD-Green minority government supported by the Left Party. Simply reopening the question of cooperation with the Left has already unleashed a firestorm of debate in the national press, fomented infigh [...]	2008-08-28 12:16:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
08FRANKFURT2735	Commerzbank Buys Dresdner, Fuelling Consolidation Debate [...] Summary: Commerzbank's acquisition of Dresdner Bank this week is the third and largest bank takeover in Germany this year, as global financial turmoil brings long-awaited consolidation to Germany's notoriously over-banked financial sector. With the deal, Commerzbank picks up a bank which has [...]	2008-09-03 12:17:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON GM
08FRANKFURT276	TREASURY DELEGATION MEETS WITH THE ECB AND GERMAN BANKS [...] A Treasury Department delegation recently visited Frankfurt to discuss global financial turmoil with the ECB, the Bundesbank and representatives of Germany's private banks. The ECB bemoaned a lack of information on the full extent of the turmoil, but none of the interlocutors foresaw an impen [...]	2008-01-29 08:21:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EU GM
08FRANKFURT2853	SPD's New Leadership Faces Challenges on the Left [...] SUMMARY: Newly-chosen SPD national leaders FM Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Franz Muentefering face the critical task of reuniting a divided party and fending off the rise of the Left Party in the run up to the 2009 federal election. In two western states, Hesse and Saarland, the local SPDs pr [...]	2008-09-18 11:09:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL GM
08FRANKFURT2857	German Bank Consolidation Reveals Conservative Business [...] SUMMARY. In a recent wave of acquisitions in the German banking sector, private German banks have taken over partners with large retail businesses to shore up capital and acquire steady, reliable sources of income. These moves reflect a changing business model designed to help banks adjust t [...]	2008-09-19 05:58:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EU GM
08FRANKFURT3102	MERKEL AND STEINBRUECK UNVEIL FINANCIAL RESCUE PACKAGE [...] SUMMARY: Chancellor Merkel and Finance Minister Steinbrueck announced the details of Germany's financial rescue package October 13, following the French-led effort to coordinate efforts among the 15 euro zone members at this weekend's Paris summit. The so-called Financial Market Stabilizatio [...]	2008-10-14 12:57:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EU GM
08FRANKFURT3103	MERKEL AND STEINBRUECK UNVEIL FINANCIAL RESCUE PACKAGE [...] SUMMARY: Chancellor Merkel and Finance Minister Steinbrueck announced the details of Germany's financial rescue packge October 13, following the French-led effort t coordinate efforts among the 15 euro zone member at this weekend's Paris summit. The so-called Financial Market Stabilization F [...]	2008-10-14 12:59:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EU GM
08FRANKFURT3206	A.Q. Khan Associate Lerch Avoids Jail Time in Deal [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Nuclear smuggler Gotthard Lerch struck a deal with the prosecution ending his trial October 16 and avoiding any jail time. Lerch received a five and a half year sentence for his involvement in exporting nuclear technology to Libya, but the remaining time of his sentence will b [...]	2008-10-24 08:32:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM MNUC PREL KNNP ETTC KJUS KCRM GM
08FRANKFURT3256	Large German Banks Expect Government to "Invite" them into [...] Summary: In what would be an about-face in government policy, senior managers at large German banks expect the Finance Ministry to "invite", or require, institutions to accept capital injections rather than accept funds on a voluntary basis. Such a change would overcome a perceived weakness o [...]	2008-10-30 10:02:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN GM
08FRANKFURT3260	Large German Banks Expect Government to "Invite" them into [...] Summary: In what would be an about-face in government policy, senior managers at large German banks expect the Finance Ministry to "invite", or require, institutions to accept capital injections rather than accept funds on a voluntary basis. Such a change would overcome a perceived weakness o [...]	2008-10-30 10:55:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN GM
08FRANKFURT3300	Hesse SPD Self-Destructs as Minority Government Attempt [...] (SBU) Summary: Three Hesse SPD parliamentarians torpedoed state party leader Andrea Ypsilanti's plan for an SPD-Green minority government with the support of The Left. The last-minute defections weaken the SPD as it strains to show party unity in an upcoming election year. The CDU stays in p [...]	2008-11-04 12:55:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
08FRANKFURT3330	Commerzbank Deal Reveals Flexibility in Stabilization Fund [...] Summary: (SBU) Commerzbank, Germany's second largest bank, became the largest bank to date to take part in the government's Financial Market Stabilization Fund (FMSF). The bank secured key concessions, thus avoiding some of the more invasive aspects of the fund. The European Commission annou [...]	2008-11-06 12:07:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN GM
08FRANKFURT3463	German State Pioneers Islamic Instruction in the Schools [...] Summary: In 2006 the southern German state of Baden Wuerttemberg became the first state in Germany to offer Islam, alongside Catholicism, Protestantism and Judaism, as a subject for religious instruction in some public schools, reflecting the state's recognition of Islam's place in society and [...]	2008-11-24 13:46:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KISL KIRF GM
08FRANKFURT3553	German Banks Take State-Level Bailouts over Federal Funds [...] SUMMARY: Both Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg (LBBW) and BayernLB (BLB) have come to terms with their state governments and other owners on capital injections of billions of euros. Putting state-level taxpayers on the line enabled them to maintain local control by avoiding federal rescue funds [...]	2008-12-03 11:03:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON GM
08FRANKFURT359	Authorities Pressure Former RAF Members to Talk [...] SUMMARY: The future of former RAF terrorist Christian Klar, who was scheduled to be freed from prison in 2009, hangs in the balance following the Baden-Wuerttemberg Justice Ministry's decision to rescind his privileges and postpone his release on the grounds that he poses a risk of escaping. [...]	2008-02-07 08:43:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KCRM ASEC GM
08FRANKFURT3607	German Regulators Want Euro-Zone Clearing Platform for [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-08 10:01:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON GM
08FRANKFURT3633	German State-Level Stimulus Aims to Offset Industrial [...] SUMMARY: As evidence mounts that Germany has slid into recession, the Baden-Wuerttemberg state government announced this week it will provide its own fiscal stimulus package to combat the coming crisis. Automotive and industrial manufacturers in B-W will undoubtedly welcome the news, having a [...]	2008-12-09 14:20:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EIND GM
08FRANKFURT447	Hesse Waits for Hamburg before Breaking Political Deadlock [...] SUMMARY: Two weeks after the Hesse state election, the political parties remain deadlocked on forming a government with few discernable signs of movement. With state elections in Hamburg coming up soon, all sides appear to be biding their time for now. The disastrous CDU campaign in Hesse has [...]	2008-02-14 10:50:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
08FRANKFURT463	Frankfurt Airport Expansion and Night Flights Update [...] SUMMARY: Numerous municipalities and several air carriers filed legal challenges to the Frankfurt airport expansion plan before the February 8 deadline, creating a legal tangle for a Hesse state court to sort out. The main sticking point in the plan to build an additional runway and terminal r [...]	2008-02-15 11:38:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON EIND ENRG PGOV SENV EU GM
08FRANKFURT568	German Private Bank Successes Highlight State Bank [...] Summary. With 2007 annual reports coming in from the German banking sector, Germany's two largest private banks registered record earnings despite losses in the second half of the year from subprime-related investments. The success of the large private banks stands in contrast to several sma [...]	2008-02-27 10:04:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON GM
08FRANKFURT617	BLACK-GREEN: GERMANY SEARCHES FOR NEW COALITION OPTIONS [...] SUMMARY. THE RECENT STATE ELECTIONS IN HAMBURG, LOWER SAXONY AND HESSE HAVE SOLIDIFIED THE EMERGENCE OF THE LEFT PARTY AND ESTABLISHED A FIVE-PARTY PRESENCE IN WESTERN GERMANY, FORCING POLITICIANS TO CONSIDER NON-TRADITIONAL COALITION OPTIONS. THE CDU AND GREENS ARE FOR THE FIRST TIME CONSID [...]	2008-03-03 08:53:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
08FRANKFURT636	Views from Frankfurt on German Banking Regulation and [...] SUMMARY. Following months of global financial turmoil, German banking regulators have taken steps to harmonize and standardize their practices. At the same time, Germany's Finance Minister has become more vocal in criticizing the current regulatory system, calling for higher capital requirem [...]	2008-03-04 14:55:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EU GM
08FRANKFURT666	Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg: A Lone Buyer in a Buyer's [...] SUMMARY: Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg (LBBW),Germany's largest state bank, has emerged from the recent crisis in the state bank sector as a potential buyer for several troubled counterparts. After concluding plans to take over SachsenLB, LBBW is now awaiting EU approval of the deal, while ru [...]	2008-03-06 13:16:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON GM
08FRANKFURT697	Hesse SPD's Risky Opening to the Left Creates Opportunity [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following weeks of political deadlock in the wake of the extremely close January 27 state parliamentary elections, Hesse SPD leader Andrea Ypsilanti has retreated from a controversial plan to form a minority government with the Greens, tolerated by the Left Party. The plan found [...]	2008-03-10 14:48:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL GM
08FRANKFURT698	Hesse SPD's Risky Opening to the Left Creates Opportunity [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following weeks of political deadlock in the wake of the extremely close January 27 state parliamentary elections, Hesse SPD leader Andrea Ypsilanti has retreated from a controversial plan to form a minority government with the Greens, tolerated by the Left Party. The plan found [...]	2008-03-10 14:49:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL GM
08FRANKFURT808	Law Enforcement Copes with Challenges of Global Terror in [...] (C) Summary. The September 4 arrests of three terror suspects tied to the Islamic Jihad Union highlighted the prevalence of Islamic extremism and homegrown terrorism in Baden-Wuerttemberg, a large and conservative southern German state. All three suspects, two of whom are German converts, sp [...]	2008-03-19 14:48:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KHLS KJUS PGOV ASEC GM
09FRANKFURT1487	STRONG REACTIONS TO OPEL/MAGNA [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 31, just a day before GM filed for bankruptcy, the tug-of-war for the car manufacturer Opel broke loose, resulting in a deal for Austro-Canadian car supplier Magna to take over Opel from GM and the German federal and state governments pulling together EUR 1.5B in immediate [...]	2009-06-08 05:45:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD ELAB GM
09FRANKFURT1576	CONGRESSIONAL STAFF DELEGATION OBSERVES GERMAN ELECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: A staff delegation from the House Committee on Administration visited Elections Offices in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden with ConOff to explore German procedures for registering voters and conducting elections on a citywide and national scale. Substantially all eligible German voters are [...]	2009-06-15 14:20:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV GE EU
09FRANKFURT1583	COMMUNAL ELECTIONS IN SW GERMANY BRING INSIGHT INTO [...] (SBU) Summary: Communal elections in three southwestern German states on June 7 generally mirrored the European election results (reftel),with voters drawn away from the larger CDU and SPD to the smaller parties -- the FDP, Greens, and the Left Party. Bucking the SPD's national slide, , the [...]	2009-06-16 07:29:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
09FRANKFURT167	Hesse Election: CDU Stays on with FDP's Help, SPD in [...] Summary: The CDU gained only a marginal victory out of the SPD's disastrous loss in the Hesse election as swing voters gravitated toward smaller parties. CDU Minister President Roland Koch will stay on, but must now share power with the FDP. The CDU-FDP government will also end the Grand Coa [...]	2009-01-20 11:15:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
09FRANKFURT1712	FRAUD SUMMARY - GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 2008 TO FEBRUARY 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-30 13:41:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC GM
09FRANKFURT1722	FRANKFURT'S IRANIAN VISA APPLICANT VALIDATION STUDY [...] SUMMARY: Consulate General Frankfurt conducted a validation study of Frankfurt's 2007 Iranian B-1/B-2 travelers. Of the 288 applicants who traveled to the United States, 19 (6.6%) claimed asylum, adjusted status or overstayed. For the vast majority who returned from the United States without [...]	2009-07-01 08:52:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KFRD IR GM
09FRANKFURT1931	KURT BECK BRINGS SPD TROUBLES FROM HIS HOME STATE [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-27 08:32:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV GM
09FRANKFURT2257	The Politics of Porsche Buyout Could Hurt Merkel's [...] SUMMARY: The takeover of one of Baden-Wuerttemberg's (B-W)archetypal firms, luxury sports car manufacturer Porsche, by Lower-Saxony based Volkswagen (VW),has local business people grumbling, and the fallout could cause problems for the Christian Democrat Union (CDU) as it gears up for the S [...]	2009-08-28 13:01:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV GM
09FRANKFURT2258	SAARLAND STATE ELECTION: ALL PARTIES NERVOUS ABOUT [...] Summary: Saarland will hold its state election on August 30, and recent polls suggest the race is wide open with a number of coalitions possible. The uncertainty is making all the parties nervous, particularly with federal elections just four weeks away and the likelihood that the results, wh [...]	2009-08-28 13:02:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV GM
09FRANKFURT2274	GREENS KINGMAKERS IN SAARLAND ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: Saarland voters gave incumbent Minister-President and Christian Democrat Peter Mueller a political lashing in the August 30 state parliamentary elections, and showed their continued affection for former Social Democratic Party (SPD) chief and current Left Party leader Oskar Lafont [...]	2009-09-01 06:22:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV GM
09FRANKFURT2318	SAARLAND ELECTION AFTERMATH: GREENS TAKING THE SLOW ROAD [...] Summary: (SBU) Torn between the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) as prospective coalition partners, the Saarland Greens have chosen to postpone a decision until after the 27 September Bundestag elections. Instead they will conduct informal talks with all [...]	2009-09-04 12:50:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV GM
09FRANKFURT239	State Steps in to Ensure Bank Consolidation in Germany [...] Summary: Both Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank are speeding up efforts to complete takeovers despite deteriorating balance sheets and losses in the fourth quarter. Finance Minister Steinbrueck has taken a firm position in favor of consolidation, stepping in to assure that the deals go through in [...]	2009-01-23 13:09:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON GM
09FRANKFURT241	Blue Lantern Level 3: Pre-License End-Use Check on [...] (SBU) Reftel requested that post conduct a bona fides site visit to Zeltmann GmbH and a pre-license check on application 050136522. ConGen Pol-Econ Off conducted the site visit with junior directors Peter Zeltmann and Achim Zeltmann on January 14. Established in 1964 by current senior directo [...]	2009-01-23 14:04:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC SP GM
09FRANKFURT25	Super Election Year in Germany Begins with Probable CDU-FDP [...] Summary: The state of Hesse kicks off Germany's "Super Election Year" with its own state elections on January 18, in what will likely be a win for the CDU and FDP and a painful loss for the SPD. The CDU and FDP are also courting each other as partners at the national level. After an inconclus [...]	2009-01-06 14:55:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
09FRANKFURT2523	Merkel Under Pressure in Germany's Southwest [...] SUMMARY: No clear predictions can be made in Germany's southwest states as to which parties will prevail in the upcoming federal election. Polls show that the Christian Democrats (CDU) have lost ground in Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W),typically a CDU stronghold, however have gained slightly in [...]	2009-09-25 13:11:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
09FRANKFURT2525	NATIONAL ELECTION RESULTS COULD IMPACT SAARLAND COALITION [...] (U)SUMMARY: Saarland, the small, picturesque German state on the French border, remains in transition following its August 30 state elections, when no party won a clear majority. Despite its uncertain state, the Saarland parliamentary session opened this week on September 23. Speculation abou [...]	2009-09-25 15:30:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV GM
09FRANKFURT2579	International Regulatory Cooperation top theme at Luncheon [...] Summary: (SBU)CG Alford hosted a luncheon at his residence on September 16, 2009 for Ambassador Philip Murphy and leaders from the Frankfurt financial community. Guests discussed a variety of political and financial issues, with a focus on maintaining good relations between governments during [...]	2009-10-05 12:57:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON GM
09FRANKFURT2648	FRAUD SUMMARY - GERMANY - MARCH - AUGUST 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-09 12:57:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC GM
09FRANKFURT2670	GREENS IN SAARLAND TURN RIGHT, SETTING POLITICAL PRECEDENT [...] (C) Summary: The Green Party in Saarland set a new political precedent October 11 when it decided overwhelmingly to form a coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP),a so-called "Jamaica" coalition based upon the parties' colors (Black, Yellow and G [...]	2009-10-14 05:14:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV GM
09FRANKFURT2800	German Financial Sector Reactions to Pittsburgh G-20 Summit [...] (SBU) Summary: The consensus in German banking circles and the ECB is that the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh set the stage for financial reforms and a new architecture that together will help reduce the dangers of another meltdown. In recent meetings with Economic Minister Counselor Robert Pollard [...]	2009-10-30 07:55:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON GM
09FRANKFURT2978	First German "Jamaica" Coalition Government Takes [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-17 16:32:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	GM PGOV
09FRANKFURT2979	First German "Jamaica" Coalition Government Takes [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-18 06:19:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV GM
09FRANKFURT3012	New German Government Plans for Reform of Financial [...] (SBU) Summary: As one of its first decisions, the new coalition government in Germany agreed to concentrate banking supervision, which has previously been shared by Germany's financial supervisor, BaFin, and the German central bank, Bundesbank, in the hands of the central bank. Proponents of t [...]	2009-11-20 12:54:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PREL GM
09FRANKFURT3013	EU FINANCIAL REGULATORY REFORM: CHIEF REGULATOR HAS [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent conversation between Consulate Representatives and Joachim Sanio, the President of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin),revealed concerns over strong French influence in the new EU financial regulatory agencies currently being created. Sanio comm [...]	2009-11-20 12:55:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON GM
09FRANKFURT3135	Green Party in Southwest Germany Seeks the Center, New [...] SUMMARY: The Green Party used its recent conventions in Hesse and Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W)on November 14 and 21 respectively to discuss a political strategy for attracting centrist voters from the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Despite coming in fourth p [...]	2009-12-07 09:33:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
09FRANKFURT3222	A Single Young Female for Germany's New Minister of [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Germany's new Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth is Kristina Koehler, a 32-year old unmarried, childless Christian Democratic Union (CDU) representative of the German parliament from Hesse. Koehler was a surprise pick for the post, which became vacant [...]	2009-12-17 11:51:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL ELAB GM
09FRANKFURT3274	ECB'S EXIT STRATEGY AND REACTION TO GREECE [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 8, European Central Bank (ECB) officials told a visiting Treasury delegation that the financial crisis will increase growth differentials among Eurozone countries, ultimately increasing pressure on the ECB to address imbalances. The ECB, however, remains committed to [...]	2009-12-23 12:11:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PREL GM
09FRANKFURT3283	EURO FINANCE WEEK PARTICIPANTS CALL FOR STRONGER U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-23 14:19:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PREL GM
09FRANKFURT3284	EURO FINANCE WEEK PARTICIPANTS CALL FOR STRONGER U.S. [...] Summary: During the 12th Euro Finance Week 2009 in Frankfurt, top representatives of the European and international financial community agreed that the financial crisis is not yet over. The key lessons from the crisis include: that banks are essential to the real economy but need better interna [...]	2009-12-23 14:19:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PREL GM
09FRANKFURT429	Stuttgart Rebellion Threatens LBBW Bailout and Merger [...] SUMMARY: Plans to inject capital into Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg (LBBW) and merge it with Bavarian counterpart BayernLB have hit a roadblock as one owner, the city of Stuttgart, has said it will not support risking taxpayer money to fund a bank that is losing money. Stuttgart has split wit [...]	2009-02-11 09:35:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN GM
09FRANKFURT687	ECB Sees Fiscal Crises in Central and Eastern Europe and [...] Summary. In a conversation with a Treasury delegation, ECB officials indicated they could deal with worsening financial turmoil in Central and Eastern Europe, seeing little chance that crises there would destabilize the euro zone. They saw a debt default from a euro zone member such as Greec [...]	2009-03-12 10:14:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EU GM
09FRANKFURT787	Grand Coalition Fatigue Sets Off Unrest in State CDUs [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the September 2009 general election approaching, Chancellor Merkel's CDU faces declining poll numbers nationally, with gains going largely to the FDP. (The CDU's coalition partner and arch-rival, the SPD, has faced troubling polls for months now.) State CDUs are urging Mer [...]	2009-03-20 15:15:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GM
09FRANKFURT846	Blue Skies for Frankfurt Airport Expansion, Partly Cloudy [...] Summary: Construction of a fourth runway for Frankfurt Airport began at the start of 2009, following years of debate and political wrangling. The runway and a new terminal will take several years to complete, meeting Frankfurt's anticipated capacity needs through 2020 and ensuring its future [...]	2009-03-26 12:34:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON EIND ENRG SENV EU GM
09FRANKFURT88	FDP Keeps Distance from CDU/CSU at Start of Campaign [...] SUMMARY: The FDP outlined its national campaign strategy January 6 for the September 2009 national elections, but did not clearly signal a strong preference for forming a government with the CDU/CSU. While both the CDU/CSU and FDP see each other as preferred partners and the FDP is desperate [...]	2009-01-13 14:42:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM
10FRANKFURT100	Baden-Wuerttemberg's Younger Political Leadership Sets New [...] (SBU) Summary: Baden-Wuerttemberg's four primary political parties have all in the last six months elected new and younger party leaders, setting in motion new political dynamics in the state. The trend began in June of 2009 when the FDP surprisingly chose Hans-Ulrich Ruelke (48) as caucus chi [...]	2010-01-11 08:48:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV GM
10FRANKFURT120	FDP "THREE KINGS DAY": CHIEF WESTERWELLE DEFENDS TAX-CUTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister and Free Democratic Party (FDP) national chair Guido Westerwelle defended the party's tax policy and downplayed problems in the national coalition at the FDP's annual leadership gathering in Stuttgart January 5-6, "Three Kings Day". The event's highlight was the [...]	2010-01-12 15:00:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL GM
10FRANKFURT218	FUTURE OF NIGHT FLIGHTS AT FRANKFURT AIRPORT REMAINS [...] SUMMARY: In December, the Hesse Administrative Court published its August 2009 decision dismissing all claims against further expansion of the Frankfurt airport. The ruling, however, left the future of night flights at the airport unclear. The court advised the State of Hesse to "revisit" its [...]	2010-01-22 12:58:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON EIND ENRG PGOV SENV EU GM
10FRANKFURT283	The Future Viability of Germany's Export Driven Economy [...] (SBU) Summary: At the recent annual "Topics of the Year" financial event on January 14 in Frankfurt, the chief economists of Deutsche Bank and the KfW Group, Thomas Mayer and Norbert Irsch, called into question the future viability of Germany's export driven-growth model. While both posited th [...]	2010-01-28 11:56:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD PREL GM
10FRANKFURT289	Classnet Conversion to Closed Partition Key Frankfurt [...] Per ref A, post acknowledges that the key load will be loaded on 22 Feb 2010 at 1100 GMT for C1 and 24 Feb 2010 at 1100 GMT for C2. 2. Post has all of the necessary keys and equipment to conduct this evolution. 3. Point of contact is David Mullins at phone 49-69-7535-7 [...]	2010-02-16 08:32:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ACKM KRIM ACOA
10FRANKFURT548	State Secretary Julia Kloeckner to Challenge Kurt Beck in [...] (SBU)SUMMARY: The Rheinland-Pfalz (R-P) Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has chosen Julia Kloeckner, Member of the Bundestag and State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Agriculture and Consumer Protection, as lead candidate for the 2011 state election, improving chances for the party to br [...]	2010-02-11 09:42:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL GM
10FRANKFURT564	A Polarizing Conservative Takes Charge in Southwest Germany: [...] (SBU)SUMMARY: On February 10, the Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) state parliament elected Christian Democrat Union (CDU) caucus chief Stefan Mappus as Germany's youngest Minister President. Mappus succeeds Guenther Oettinger, who was elected EU Commissioner for Energy Affairs on February 9. With M [...]	2010-02-11 12:43:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV GM PREL

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