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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
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| 06MUNICH114 |
MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE OVERVIEW: MERKEL URGES [...] (SBU) The February 3-5 42nd Munich Conference on Security Policy ("Wehrkunde") on "Restoring the Transatlantic Partnership," explored a wide-range of security policy topics, including the future of NATO, its relationship with the EU, Russia's relationship with Europe and NATO, and Foreign and [...] |
2006-02-23 16:28:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM NATO IAEA NPT ENRG IR GM |
| 06MUNICH347 |
BAVARIAN TIP UPDATE: ARRESTS AND CONVICTIONS; [...] (U) Bavarian police arrested two Romanians and one German May 21 for trafficking in persons (TIP) and pimping in Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg. The arrests were the result of a four-month police investigation launched on the basis of evidence gathered during routine "controls" of brothels in [...] |
2006-06-11 17:22:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN KJUS PGOV SMIG ELAB GM RO |
| 06MUNICH357 |
CHAROLOTTE KNOBLOCH ELECTED NEW PRESIDENT OF THE [...] On June 7, 2006, at age 73, Charolotte Knobloch was unanimously elected President of the Jewish Council in Germany following the death of Council President Paul Spiegel on April 30. People who know her are confident she will be able to gain broad public support in her new capacity. She has [...] |
2006-06-13 11:02:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR GM |
| 06MUNICH397 |
BRUNO'S LAST STAND -- FIRST WILD BEAR IN 170 YEARS [...] Despite all the attention surrounding the World Cup, EADS' woes and health care reform, Bavarians and many Germans have been transfixed by a two-year-old brown bear named "Bruno" that wandered across international borders into Bavaria, a government minister's agenda, a hunter's crosshairs, an [...] |
2006-06-30 13:30:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SENV GM |
| 06MUNICH400 |
BLUE LANTERN PRE-CHECK ON DDTC LICENSE 05-973079: [...] (SBU) POL/ECON Officer and an LES researched bona fides of ref German firm IBR Aeronautical Consulting, and visited Hannes Ross, IBR's owner and sole employee, at his home office on June 29. When asked, Ross explained that the confusion over a firm by the name of EEL (reftel) being listed at [...] |
2006-06-30 16:10:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC GM |
| 06MUNICH437 |
EADS/AIRBUS CRISIS -- THE VIEW FROM EADS' MUNICH [...] (SBU) Senior German EADS officials told the Consulate that Noel Forgeard's departure was necessary for EADS to move beyond its current mess, and the Forgeard affair was but one example of the challenges of dealing with spotlight- seeking French partners. As for BAE's divestiture of its EADS [...] |
2006-07-13 12:41:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM |
| 06MUNICH558 |
EADS' EUROCOPTER -- WHAT AIRBUS WOULD LIKE TO BE [...] (U) Eurocopter, enjoying rising market share, is particularly exuberant over the recent decision by the U.S. Army to purchase up to 352 UH-145 helicopters, the firm's first U.S. defense contract. Eurocopter officials said this would put greater pressure on colleagues at Eurocopter parent EADS [...] |
2006-08-23 16:31:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM |
| 06MUNICH715 |
EADS/AIRBUS CRISIS -- THE SAGA CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Amid a flood of bad news, a senior EADS official told the Consulate the A380 would, despite delays, be certified for flight. However, the A380's drain on resources was adversely impacting programs such as the A350 and the A400M, possibly resulting in a postponement of the A350 program. [...] |
2006-10-13 13:57:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM |
| 06MUNICH767 |
MR. PUTIN GOES TO BAVARIA [...] The Bavarian government warmly welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to Munich October 11. Shortly after Putin's visit, the so-called "Days of Moscow" were opened in the Bavarian capital marking the visit of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, to whom Minister-President Stoiber aw [...] |
2006-10-31 08:30:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GM RS |
| 06MUNICH777 |
THE CSU'S ANNUAL CONVENTION - STICKING WITH STOIBER, BUT [...] Chancellor Merkel and Bavarian Minister-President Edmund Stoiber made a show of unity at the CSU's annual convention. Behind the facade, however, the CSU is reluctantly marching behind Stoiber - a leader whose glory has visibly faded. Recent polls show the CSU's popularity in Bavaria at arou [...] |
2006-11-03 16:25:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV GM |
| 06MUNICH819 |
POLICE RAID TURKISH TERRORIST ORGANIZATION DHKP/C [...] (U) In a coordinated effort led by Munich prosecutors, police from Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg, and North Rhine Westphalia raided the apartments and workplaces of alleged supporters of the Turkish terrorist organization "Revolutionary People's Liberation Front" (DHKP/C) on November 28. Accord [...] |
2006-12-01 15:47:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN KJUS PTER PGOV ASEC GM TU |
| 06MUNICH838 |
PREVIEW OF THE 43D MUNICH CONFERENCE ON SECURITY POLICY [...] (U) The 43d annual Munich Conference on Security Policy, the "Davos" of the security policy world is set to take place February 9-11, 2007 at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, Germany. Invited guests include heads of state, foreign ministers, defense ministers, parliamentary delegations an [...] |
2006-12-08 11:54:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM NATO GM |
| 07MUNICH104 |
BAVARIAN MINISTER ON PHARMACEUTICALS AND HEALTH CARE [...] On February 14, Consul General Nelson called on Christa Stewens, Bavarian Minister for Labor, Social Affairs, and Family, to discuss the potential impact of German health care reform on innovation in the Bavarian pharmaceutical sector. Stewens agreed with several of the points made by the CG, [...] |
2007-02-21 15:23:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV PGOV ETRD GM |
| 07MUNICH106 |
BAVARIAN TAKE ON DOHA AND CLOSER TRANSATLATIC INTEGRATION [...] In a discussion with senior officials from the Bavarian Ministry for Economic Affairs and the State Chancery, Embassy Berlin EMIN stressed the urgency of German and EU action to revitalize the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) now. He pointed to statements by Chancellor Merkel and other senior Ge [...] |
2007-02-21 17:13:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL ECON GM |
| 07MUNICH15 |
BAVARIA'S STOIBER - BEYOND REDEMPTION? [...] (U) The political year in Bavaria began with further erosion of Bavarian Minister-President and CSU Party Chairman Edmund Stoiber's popularity - and questions about his future. Stoiber's current woes include allegations that he ordered inquiries into the private life of a CSU politician criti [...] |
2007-01-12 15:16:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV GM |
| 07MUNICH196 |
CRISIS AT SIEMENS - JUST HOW BAD IS IT? [...] Manufacturing giant Siemens, a household name in Germany and in much of the world, has become embroiled in a recent string of scandals ranging from "outsourced" job losses to accusations of bribery of customers and unions that have tarnished the firm's reputation. Even before the March 27 ar [...] |
2007-04-03 14:40:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN GM |
| 07MUNICH21 |
BAVARIAN MINISTER-PRESIDENT STOIBER TO STEP-DOWN [...] Bavarian Minister-President Edmund Stoiber announced January 18 he will resign his posts as Minister-President and Christian Social Union (CSU) Party Chairman by September 30, 2007. Bavarian State Parliament (Landtag) President Alois Glueck confirmed to the Consul General shortly after Stoibe [...] |
2007-01-19 13:04:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV GM |
| 07MUNICH218 |
BECKSTEIN LEADS BAVARIA'S GET-TOUGH APPROACH TO ISLAMIC [...] (SBU) Guenther Beckstein, Germany's longest-serving state Interior Minister and presumptive future Bavarian Minister President (REF A), has for years identified Islamic terrorism as the greatest risk to domestic security in Germany. According to Beckstein, about 50 people living in Bavaria ha [...] |
2007-04-11 09:34:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER KCRM KISL GM |
| 07MUNICH258 |
MUNICH PROSECUTOR DOES NOT ANTICIPATE EXTRADITION [...] (SBU) ConGen Munich contacted Munich Deputy District Attorney August Stern on April 24 in an effort to clarify whether the "request for provisional arrest" by his office in the Al Masri case (Ref A) would lead to a request for extradition under Article 16 of the bilateral extradition treaty b [...] |
2007-04-25 09:14:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PREL PTER GM |
| 07MUNICH28 |
BAVARIA'S NEXT MINISTER-PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Bavarian Interior Minister Guenther Beckstein is expected to be elected Bavarian Minister-President in early October 2007, succeeding Edmund Stoiber. Beckstein is the longest-serving and best-known of Germany's state interior ministers. His "law and order" approach has provided Bavaria [...] |
2007-01-19 18:24:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV GM |
| 07MUNICH325 |
MUNICH G-8 JUSTICE AND INTERIOR MINISTERS MEETING [...] The below text is the concluding declaration from the G-8 Justice and Interior Ministers Meeting held in Munich May 23-25. The U.S. was represented at the meeting by Attorney General Gonzales and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Jackson. 2. Begin text: During our meeting in Munich on [...] |
2007-05-25 15:24:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER KCRM KISL GM |
| 07MUNICH347 |
BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: FIRM REFUSES TO ALLOW PRE-LICENSE [...] (SBU) Following repeated attempts to schedule an acceptable date for ConGen POL/ECON Officer and LES to visit Oberland Arms, the firm refused our requested visit via the following e-mail, translated from German: Begin text: Dear Dr. Wilhelm (LES Econ Specialist) -- Thank you for your patie [...] |
2007-06-04 05:38:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC GM |
| 07MUNICH403 |
BAVARIA'S CSU - PALACE POLITICS PLAY ON [...] (SBU) It now appears all but certain that Interior Minister Beckstein will succeed Edmund Stoiber as Minister-President. Further, it appears that federal Agriculture Minister Seehofer's personal problems and negative campaign style have given Bavarian Economic Minister Huber a decisive, if not [...] |
2007-07-09 09:42:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV GM |
| 07MUNICH409 |
ANSAR AL-ISLAM MEMBERS CONVICTED BY BAVARIAN COURT [...] (SBU) The Bavarian Supreme Court sentenced Ansar al-Islam member Farhad Kanabi Ahmad to five years and six months in prison on July 9 following the sentencing of Dieman Abdulkadir Izzat to three years and three months in prison on June 25. Prosecutors had asked for sentences of six years for [...] |
2007-07-11 07:54:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC ETTC PGOV PREL KCRM KISL KVPR GM |
| 07MUNICH412 |
NAVIGATING A MESS: EADS OFFICIALS ON GALILEO [...] (SBU) Senior EADS-Astrium officials told ConGen Munich the recent collapse of the Galileo consortium of private firms resulted as much from squabbling between EU states over apportionment of contracts as a failure to find a workable economic model. They described the current economic model as [...] |
2007-07-13 13:56:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON TSPA EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM |
| 07MUNICH463 |
BIOGAS IN BAVARIA: A MODEL FOR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE? [...] ConGen Munich visited a biomethane plant in Pliening, Bavaria built and run by Schmack Biogas AG, a leader in the biogas field. The plant is a showcase for the state of the art in biogas technology, and an example of the potential of biomass as a fuel source. Schmack representatives are optim [...] |
2007-08-13 05:40:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PGOV EINV PREL ENRG TRGY KGHG GM |
| 07MUNICH560 |
CSU PARTY CONVENTION USHERS-IN POST-STOIBER ERA [...] (SBU) At the annual CSU party convention, Erwin Huber decisively defeated Horst Seehofer and Gabrielle Pauli in the race to lead his party forward. Delegates also overwhelmingly endorsed Guenther Beckstein as the CSU's candidate for Bavarian Minister-President, all but ensuring his election o [...] |
2007-10-02 15:55:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV GM |
| 07MUNICH563 |
RESPONSE TO FDA REGARDING U.S./FDA ORPHAN PRODUCT [...] Consulate General Munich is unaware of any information that would present negative foreign policy implications in connection with awarding a product development grant award to either the Medizinische Universitatsklinik Wurzburg or the Klinikum der Universitat Munchen, and thus has no objection [...] |
2007-10-04 09:37:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TBIO OTRA TPHY US GM |
| 07MUNICH573 |
BLUE LANTERN PRE-CHECK LICENCE END-USE CHECK ON APPLICATION [...] ConGen Munich contact Josef Priller, of Sitec's sales department, regarding the questions outlined in reftel. Priller provided the following answers: a) Sitec's customers: Sitec's typical customers are commercial aircraft manufacturers located worldwide. b) Ties to China: Sitec has no [...] |
2007-10-12 15:45:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC GM |
| 07MUNICH574 |
BLUE LATERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON LICENSE [...] ConGen contacted Bernhard Wagner, Managing Director of Prueftechnik Dieter Busch AG. Wagner confirmed that Prueftechnik had received all 10 Inertial Sensor Assemblies (ISA) listed on the license and assured us the ISAs had been incorporated into Prueftechnik's PARALIGN systems. 2. Prueft [...] |
2007-10-12 15:45:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC GM |
| 07MUNICH60 |
2006 COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN (CFC) PROCEDURES [...] No summary [...] |
2007-02-02 16:06:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | APER |
| 07MUNICH620 |
BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENCE CHECK ON APPLICATION [...] As requested in (Ref A), ConGen Munich contacted the managing directors of Cerberus, GmbH, Frank Satzinger and Matthias Hainich, at their place of business located at Gewerbestrasse 4, Obersoechering. Satzinger and Hainich confirmed they are also the directors of Oberland Arms, OHG. They exp [...] |
2007-11-20 16:29:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC GM |
| 07MUNICH633 |
BLUE LANTERN PRE-CHECK LICENCE END-USE CHECK ON APPLICATION [...] ConGen Munich contacted Deutsches Zentrum f|r Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR) in Wessling and received the confirmation that it had ordered two detectors from Fermionics Corporation. DLR informed us that it had not physically received the detectors, as the Australian firm Integrated Spectronics Pty [...] |
2007-11-29 13:24:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC GM |
| 07MUNICH636 |
FILLING BIG SHOES: BAVARIA'S NEW INTERIOR MINISTER [...] (SBU) The recent selection of Joachim Herrmann to be Bavaria's new Interior Minister, after 14 years of Bavarian Minister-President Guenther Beckstein holding that office, caught nearly everyone by surprise. Herrmann not only has no background in law enforcement, but appeared content to remai [...] |
2007-12-03 16:50:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV GM |
| 07MUNICH646 |
PROPOSED BAVARIAN ISLAMIC ACADEMY HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) A controversial proposal for an Islamic academy in Munich illustrates some of the challenges of balancing integration and security concerns in a conservative German state. The academy, to be funded by the UAE, would be a first-of-its-kind proposal by IVLP grantee Imam Benjamin Idriz of t [...] |
2007-12-18 11:18:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | GE KCRM KISL PGOV PREL PTER SOCI |
| 07MUNICH652 |
GALILEO AND THE EU -- NAVIGATING THE PORK BARREL [...] (SBU) EADS-Astrium officials told Embassy Berlin EMIN and ConGen Munich that the Galileo satellite navigation project is proceeding under its new EU funding mechanism, albeit well behind schedule. The officials expressed frustration at the Byzantine web of EU politics and blatant promotion of [...] |
2007-12-21 10:53:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON TSPA EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM |
| 07MUNICH81 |
PUTIN AND GATES DOMINATE MUNICH SECURITY [...] (SBU) The February 9-11 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy (formerly known as "Wehrkunde") on "Global Crises - Global Responsibilities" was dominated by differing visions of the Transatlantic role in global security. Chancellor Merkel, Secretary Gates, Senators McCain and Lieberman, a [...] |
2007-02-12 17:28:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NATO OSCE PARM PREL GM IR AF RS |
| 07MUNICH92 |
APPRECIATION FOR MISSION GERMANY ASSISTANCE WITH THE [...] Consulate General Munich wishes to express its appreciation for the assistance provided by colleagues in Mission Germany supporting the 43d Munich Security Conference. This was the largest Security Conference in history with four heads of government, 16 foreign ministers, and 24 defense minis [...] |
2007-02-15 07:45:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV GM |
| 08MUNICH100 |
BMW ON EU CO2 RULES, FRENCH INFLUENCE, AND FUTURE OF THE [...] (SBU) A senior BMW official told ConGen Munich that proposed EU rules on auto carbon emissions would not only be ineffective, but represent French "industrial policy," rewarding manufacturers of low-tech small cars and punishing Germany's manufacturers of larger, more carbon-efficient, vehicle [...] |
2008-03-07 11:34:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV EINV PREL FR GM |
| 08MUNICH102 |
CSU AND SPD FARE POORLY IN BAVARIAN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS; [...] March 2 municipal elections in Bavaria exposed weakness on the part of the Christian Social Union (CSU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD), while showing significant gains for the smaller parties. The CSU's poor showing in larger cities has raised concern among the CSU's leadership that the pa [...] |
2008-03-07 14:48:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV GM |
| 08MUNICH130 |
BAYERNLB - SUBPRIME CRISIS HITS BAVARIA [...] A BayernLB official told ConGen Munich that the bank,s subprime losses would exceed the embarrassing 1.9 billion euros already declared in February. Both Moody,s and Bavarian Minister-President Beckstein share this view, saying as much as 4 billion euros may be at risk. While the losses don [...] |
2008-04-02 15:32:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD GM PGOV PREL |
| 08MUNICH136 |
EADS OFFICALS WARY OF TANKER DEAL REVIEW, [...] (SBU) In a meeting with ConGen Munich, senior EADS officials expressed concern about the potential outcome of Boeing,s protest of the U.S. Air Force aerial refueling tanker award to the Northrop Grumman-EADS consortium, particularly given the political dimension the issue has taken-on in the [...] |
2008-04-04 13:01:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM |
| 08MUNICH141 |
CSU UNITES BY STRESSING BAVARIAN DIFFERENCES WITH BERLIN [...] (SBU) The Bavarian sister party to Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), the Christian Social Union (CSU), held a special closed-door meeting for its leadership to address voter discontent and the appearance of divisions among the party leadership. The CSU's leaders emerged from the [...] |
2008-04-09 14:19:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GM |
| 08MUNICH17 |
PREVIEW OF THE 44TH MUNICH CONFERENCE ON SECURITY POLICY [...] (U) The 44th annual Munich Conference on Security Policy, the "Davos" of the security policy world, is set to take place February 8-10, 2008 at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, Germany. Invited guests include heads of state, foreign ministers, defense ministers, parliamentary delegations [...] |
2008-01-11 17:03:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM NATO GM |
| 08MUNICH175 |
AUDI ON EU CO2 RULES, THE FUTURE OF THE AUTOMOBILE, AND THE [...] (SBU) Senior Audi officials told ConGen Munich they share BMW's view that proposed EU CO2 rules represent nothing less than French industrial policy. Going a step further, they made the questionable argument that the EU rules would effectively "kill" the European auto industry while achieving [...] |
2008-05-14 05:30:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV EINV PREL FR GM |
| 08MUNICH257 |
CDU/CSU RIVALRY AND UNITY: MERKEL NEEDS BOTH FOR ELECTORAL [...] The July 18-19 CSU party convention demonstrated that recent media reports about a deep split between the CDU and CSU have been overblown. In a skillful speech before the CSU party congress, Chancellor Merkel brushed aside recent CDU/CSU tensions, praising the CSU's achievements as a model fo [...] |
2008-07-25 12:46:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV GM |
| 08MUNICH308 |
GERMANY/BAVARIAN ELECTIONS: CSU WOOS VOTERS WITH [...] (U) Summary: Heading into the first regional election after the leadership shakeup in the Social Democratic Party (SPD) (see reftel), the Christian Social Union (CSU) leadership in Bavaria is extolling the virtues of Bavaria's relatively prosperous status quo. The CSU is scrambling to mainta [...] |
2008-09-12 15:28:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PROG GM |
| 08MUNICH317 |
RUSSIA/COUNTERTERRORISM: RUSSIAN PLEDGES ETERNAL [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Anatoliy Safonov and Ambassador Dell Dailey, coordinators of counterterrorism efforts by the Russian Federation and the United States, met privately in Munich on September 17 to discuss counterterrorism issues. Safonov took pains to confirm that bilateral relationship w [...] |
2008-09-24 06:20:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV EFIN US RS |
| 08MUNICH319 |
GERMANY/BAVARIAN ELECTIONS - HISTORIC VOTE COULD END AN ERA [...] (SBU) Bavarian voters go to the polls September 28, but the election could have an impact beyond Bavaria's borders. If the ruling Christian Social Union (CSU) falls below its own goal of 50 percent of the vote, it could scuttle the careers of the CSU leadership duo and shake up the local gove [...] |
2008-09-25 05:48:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV GM |
| 08MUNICH322 |
GERMANY/BAVARIAN ELECTIONS: CATASTROPHIC CSU [...] (C) Summary: The Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavaria lost 17 points off its 2003 result and brought home only 43 percent of the vote in September 28 state elections. The CSU also lost its 46-year absolute majority in the state parliament. Although the CSU will make no immediate personn [...] |
2008-09-29 12:59:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GM |
| 08MUNICH331 |
GERMANY/BANKING CRISIS: RESCUE OF HYPO REAL BANK CONSIDERED [...] Summary: Representatives of the Bavarian financial community believe the rescue of Hypo Real Estate (HRE) is not comparable to recent interventions in the U.S., due to participation by the private sector, and because the German government is not buying assets but giving guarantees. The Germa [...] |
2008-10-08 15:39:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON GM |
| 08MUNICH349 |
GERMANY/BAVARIAN POLITICS: NEW BAVARIAN POLITICS [...] (C) Horst Seehofer (Christian Social Union - CSU) became Bavaria's new Minister President October 27, leaving his position as Federal Agriculture Minister to lead the first Bavarian coalition in 46 years. CSU leadership figures promised a more independent CSU, which could present challenges [...] |
2008-10-29 06:27:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV INRB GM |
| 08MUNICH351 |
GERMANY/BAVARIAN POLITICS: NEW BAVARIAN POLITICS [...] (C) Horst Seehofer (Christian Social Union - CSU) became Bavaria's new Minister President October 27, leaving his position as Federal Agriculture Minister to lead the first Bavarian coalition in 46 years. CSU leadership figures promised a more independent CSU, which could present challenges [...] |
2008-10-30 06:23:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV INRB GM |
| 08MUNICH354 |
GERMANY/BAVARIAN POLITICS: THE ASCENSION OF MINISTER [...] (SBU) Politically resilient Horst Seehofer, elected Christian Social Union (CSU) chairman on October 25 and Bavarian Minister President on October 27, now has the challenging task of resurrecting his much-weakened party in the months leading up the September 27, 2009 Bundestag elections. Nobo [...] |
2008-10-31 13:48:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV INRB GM |
| 08MUNICH355 |
GERMANY/BAVARIA: CSU HOPES FOR FRESH START WITH NEW AND [...] (SBU) Newly-elected Bavarian Minister-President Horst Seehofer (Christian Social Union - CSU) elevated youthful, female, and fresh faces in the presentation of his surprising cabinet choices on October 30. In a canny move, he also chose 36-year-old Bundestag member Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg [...] |
2008-10-31 14:35:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EINV INRB GM |
| 08MUNICH358 |
GERMANY/BAVARIA: THE BAVARIAN SPD APPEARS OBLIVIOUS TO [...] (SBU) The Bavarian and national Social Democratic Party's (SPD) open gloating over the blow to the Christian Social Union (CSU) in the recent Bavarian elections belied their own sorry state of affairs: the SPD had its worst showing there since WWII. With such a weak showing in that state -- a [...] |
2008-11-04 12:56:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV GM |
| 08MUNICH365 |
GERMANY/AGRICULTURE: GUILT BY ASSOCIATION - GENETICALLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Monsanto fears that "populist" and "unbalanced" attacks by German and Bavarian politicians over Monsanto's genetically engineered corn have the potential to damage MonsantoQs much larger core business for conventional seeds and pest control products in Germany. When asked by M [...] |
2008-11-10 10:42:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO BTIO PGOV GM |
| 08MUNICH373 |
OFFICIAL CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE AND INVITATION TO THE [...] Consulate Munich received a congratulatory message to President-Elect Barack Obama dated November 5 from Horst Seehofer, Minister President of Bavaria. The letter includes an invitation to the annual Munich Conference on Security Policy (MSC), February 6-8, 2009. The conference regularly at [...] |
2008-11-18 10:22:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP PGOV ASEC GM |
| 08MUNICH376 |
GERMANY/GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI OPENS HONORARY [...] (C) President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia officially opened a Georgian honorary consulate in Munich on November 20. While in Munich, he met privately with Horst Seehofer, Bavarian Minister President (Christian Social Union), and Emelia Mueller (CSU), Bavarian Minister for European Affairs [...] |
2008-11-21 14:13:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG GE |
| 08MUNICH384 |
GERMANY/MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE: Scene Setter for the [...] (SBU) The annual Munich Security Conference, the "Davos of the security world," uniquely brings official national delegations together with private opinion makers and experts in an informal setting conducive to lively debate and dialogue. The MSC this year holds its first session on Friday, F [...] |
2008-12-08 10:37:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TAGS |
| 08MUNICH388 |
GERMAN "INDEPENDENTS" CHALLENGE MAINLINE PARTIES IN [...] (SBU) A new sort of German politician, the Freie Waehler (Independent Voters) (FW), has invaded the parliamentary turf of establishment parties at the top of Bavarian politics. Their leadership dreams expansively of its first-ever nationwide campaign for the European Parliament in June 2009, h [...] |
2008-12-12 12:13:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV GM INRB |
| 08MUNICH396 |
Germany/Economics - Mixed but Increasingly Worried Messages [...] (SBU) Chancellor Merkel, ridiculed by some for her cautious approach to an economic stimulus package, might be half right and half wrong, based on analysis of the evolving situation in Germany's touchstone state, Bavaria. On one hand, the graph from the November 2008 "business sentiment indic [...] |
2008-12-16 07:56:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON GM |
| 08MUNICH402 |
GERMAN PUBLIC STUNNED BY ATTACK ON POLICE CHIEF [...] (SBU) Summary: German officials, the public, and the media are up in arms over the near-fatal stabbing of Alois Mannichl, the Passau (Bavaria) police chief, on the doorstep of his home on December 13 (REF A). Despite no arrest in the case yet, there are calls for a ban on the neo-Nazi NPD pa [...] |
2008-12-18 10:01:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL GM |
| 08MUNICH409 |
EU/GALILEO/GPS: POLITICAL CAVEATS FOR AMERICAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: American subcontractors could be well-placed to partner with primary EU contractors as the EU presses on with its aggressive schedule to attain an operational 30-satellite Galileo constellation by 2013. Successful bidders will have to keep in mind that Galileo projects have tech [...] |
2008-12-19 10:44:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON EINV ETRD PGOV PREL TSPA GM |
| 08MUNICH423 |
GERMANY/BAVARIA: GERMAN COALITION PARTIES [...] (SBU) The Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), dangerously weakened, is attempting to sharpen its profile among Bavarian and national voters, by pursuing an aggressive economic campaign that diverges from that of its sister party, Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democrats. The CSU is finding plenty [...] |
2008-12-23 08:40:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV GM |
| 08MUNICH52 |
OVERVIEW OF THE 44TH MUNICH CONFERENCE ON SECURITY POLICY [...] (U) The 44th annual Munich Conference on Security Policy, under the theme "The World in Disarray - Shifting Powers - Lack of Strategies?" took place February 8-10, 2008 at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, Germany. Invited guests included more than 200 heads of state, foreign ministers, def [...] |
2008-02-12 06:31:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM MARR NATO GM |
| 08MUNICH53 |
ARMS CONTROL PANEL IGNORES REAL ISSUES AT MUNICH SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The 44th annual Munich Conference on Security Policy, with this year's theme "The World in Disarray - Shifting Powers - Lack of Strategies?" took place February 8-10, 2008 at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, Germany (see reftels). The second panel on February 9, "From Cooper [...] |
2008-02-12 09:00:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM NATO GM MARR |
| 08MUNICH54 |
AFGHANISTAN GETS TOP BILLING AT MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The need for greater Allied solidarity in meeting the demands of the ISAF mission in Afghanistan was the main topic of discussion at the February 8-10 Munich Security Conference (see ref A for full overview of conference). It was not only the subject of Secretary Gates' prepare [...] |
2008-02-12 09:01:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR NATO GM AF |
| 08MUNICH59 |
MUNICH CONSULAR LEADERSHIP DAY AT INFINEON [...] Summary. The themes of Munich's 2008 Consular Leadership Day were the CA Leadership Tenets "Learn Constantly" and "Build Great Teams." On January 30 we traveled together to Regensburg, about 90 minutes from Munich, where the German semiconductor company Infineon manufactures the electronic c [...] |
2008-02-12 14:54:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT GM |
| 08MUNICH61 |
A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH UKRAINIAN DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: A/S Fried discussed Ukraine's NATO aspirations with Defense Minister Yekhanurov February 9, in particular Ukraine's interest in a NATO offer of a Membership Action Plan (MAP) at the April Bucharest Summit. Fried highlighted the challenge of getting NATO agreement on MAP, given [...] |
2008-02-12 16:26:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO PARM MARR GM UP |
| 08MUNICH62 |
A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH MONTENEGRIN FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Dan Fried met February 9 with Montenegrin Foreign Minister Milan Rocen. Rocen said Montenegro was ready for Kosovo,s independence and would control unwanted or destabilizing movement (e.g., paramilitaries) across the border while keeping it open for legitimat [...] |
2008-02-13 14:32:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO PARM PREL GM MW |
| 08MUNICH63 |
A/S FRIED'S AND AMB NULAND'S MEETING WITH GEORGIAN [...] (C) Summary: In a bilateral meeting on the margins of the Munich Security Conference on February 9, EUR A/S Daniel Fried and US Ambassador to NATO Victoria Nuland urged President Mikheil Saakashvili to show leadership in convincing allies that Georgia is ready for a NATO Membership Action Pl [...] |
2008-02-14 06:30:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | GM MARR NATO PARM PREL GG |
| 08MUNICH66 |
APPRECIATION FOR ENGAGEMENT AT THE MUNICH SECURITY [...] Consulate General Munich wishes to express its appreciation for the assistance provided by Mission Germany colleagues in supporting the 44th Munich Security Conference. 2. Attending the Conference were three heads of government, 20 foreign ministers, and 23 defense ministers. The U.S. del [...] |
2008-02-14 06:40:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ASEC GM |
| 08MUNICH68 |
A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH DUMA COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN [...] (C) Summary: A/S Fried noted that Deputy Prime Minister Ivanov's Munich speech was a welcome change in tone from other senior Russian statements. The discussion focused primarily on Kosovo. Fried urged Russia to be constructive with Serbia and Kosovo; the U.S. had a disagreement over Kosov [...] |
2008-02-14 09:39:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO PARM PREL GM RS |
| 08MUNICH69 |
A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH MOLDOVAN PRESIDENT VORONIN [...] (C) Summary: In a bilateral meeting on the margins of the Munich Security Conference on February 9, EUR A/S Daniel Fried urged Vladimir Voronin, President of Moldova, not to succumb to Russian pressure regarding international guarantees for Moldova,s neutrality. Voronin should resist Russia [...] |
2008-02-14 09:39:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO PARM PREL GM MD |
| 08MUNICH70 |
FRIENDS OF BELARUS MEETING ON THE MARGINS OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Lithuania organized a meeting of the Friends of Belarus on the margins of the February 8-10 Munich Security Conference. The meeting was characterized by agreement that the U.S. and EU should maintain pressure on Belarus for the release of political prisoners, and by a commitmen [...] |
2008-02-14 11:55:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO PARM PREL GM BO |
| 08MUNICH94 |
EADS' TANKER WIN - ANATOMY OF A (VERY BIG) DEFENSE [...] (SBU) THE FEBRUARY 29 ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE U.S. AIR FORCE WOULD AWARD A USD 40 BILLION CONTRACT FOR AERIAL REFUELING TANKERS TO A CONSORTIUM FORMED BY EADS AND NORTHROP GRUMMAN, A DEAL THAT DEFENSE EXPERTS HAD BEEN ALL- BUT-CERTAIN WOULD GO TO BOEING, LANDED LIKE A BOMBSHELL AT EADS' CO-HEADQU [...] |
2008-03-03 18:04:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM |
| 09MUNICH119 |
GAME ON - OR GAME OVER? - FOR THE CSU IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Days before the June 7 European Parliament elections in Germany, the Christian Social Union (CSU) is at a deciding moment in its history as a powerful regional party in Germany and in Europe, and the German political establishment is on tenterhooks. Voters do not seem to be as [...] |
2009-06-03 15:56:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GM |
| 09MUNICH128 |
EU ELECTIONS IN BAVARIA: CSU RELIEVED, SPD SMASHED, [...] (SBU) The Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavaria is relieved after having handily made the five percent hurdle in the June 7 European Parliament (EP) elections. The drawing power of Economics Minister zu Guttenberg and the party's uniquely Bavarian election message worked. With its good sho [...] |
2009-06-10 14:32:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EUN ECON PREL GM |
| 09MUNICH162 |
Northern African Solar Energy: A Silver Bullet Against the [...] (U) SUMMARY: Major European investors led by Germany are in the preliminary stages of developing "Desertec," a 400 billion euro renewable energy project with the potential to supply 15 percent of Europe's power needs by 2050. The group electrified renewable energy proponents with the announc [...] |
2009-07-02 07:51:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL SENV EU GM XF |
| 09MUNICH166 |
DIM PICTURE OF ECONOMIC SITUATION IN GERMANY DRAWN BY [...] At a conference celebrating the 60th anniversary of the influential Munich-based think-tank, ifo, President Hans-Werner Sinn dueled with German Federal Bank (Bundesbank) President Axel Weber on the outlook for the German economy. Sinn, one of Germany's most influential and most-quoted economi [...] |
2009-07-06 05:50:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON PREL GM |
| 09MUNICH187 |
CSU DEMONSTRATES INDEPENDENCE AT PARTY CONVENTION, BUT [...] (SBU) The Christian Social Union (CSU) celebrated the party's improving political fortunes at its July 17-18 party convention along with the 55th birthday of Chancellor Merkel (CDU), who spoke at the event. Bavarian Minister President Horst Seehofer promised Merkel the CSU's full support in t [...] |
2009-07-21 13:05:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EUN GM |
| 09MUNICH19 |
MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE OVERVIEW (FEBRUARY 6-8, [...] (U) SUMMARY: The mood at the end of the 45th Munich Security Conference (MSC) was upbeat, welcoming that the U.S. is "back at the table." Vice President Biden took the stage to extended, warm applause. Reflecting the content and tone of President Obama's inauguration speech, the Vice Preside [...] |
2009-02-10 15:20:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV NATO GM |
| 09MUNICH197 |
REGIONAL BAVARIAN VIEWS ON A GERMAN CREDIT CRUNCH [...] (SBU) With a persistent focus among media and business leaders on the question of whether Germany is caught in a credit crunch, ConGen Munich surveyed local finance and business leaders to understand what is happening in Bavaria, one of Europe's largest economies. There is a liquidity supply [...] |
2009-07-31 05:47:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL GM |
| 09MUNICH20 |
MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE - FOCUS ON ARMS CONTROL [...] (U) Flanked by well-received calls for a renewed push for arms control and disarmament by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and U.S. Representative Ellen Tauscher, German FM Steinmeier used the Munich Security Conference (MSC) as a platform to reiterate his arms control agenda and to em [...] |
2009-02-10 15:21:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV NATO GM |
| 09MUNICH21 |
MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE: FOCUS ON RUSSIA [...] (U) SUMMARY. Participants wondered until the last moment which Russian Federation official would speak for Russia (there was speculation that Prime Minister Putin would appear) and what he would bring to the podium at this year's Munich Security Conference (MSC), February 6-8. It was Russian [...] |
2009-02-10 15:56:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV NATO GM |
| 09MUNICH213 |
MUNICH COURT CONVICTS FORMER NAZI (90) OF WAR CRIMES; [...] (U) On August 11, a Munich court sentenced Josef Scheungraber, a 90-year-old former Nazi officer, to life in prison for his part in ordering the massacre of ten Italian men and women in 1944 in Falzano di Cortona. The prosecutor, Hans-Joachim Lutz, was the same Munich prosecutor who will lead [...] |
2009-08-13 14:22:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPEC PREL GM |
| 09MUNICH22 |
MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE - FOCUS ON IRAN [...] (U) In remarks at the Munich Security Conference (MSC), February 6-8, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Larijani repeatedly emphasized that the West -- and the U.S. in particular -- has been applying a double standard towards Iran since the Iranian revolution. He argued that it is up to th [...] |
2009-02-10 16:36:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV NATO GM |
| 09MUNICH234 |
Bored To Tears - German Election Leaves Bavarian Youth [...] (SBU) Bavarian youth and German youth in general were intrigued this past year with "Obamamania" and the workings of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign and elections that inspired young and old to discuss politics in ways not seen in Bavaria for years. However, despite the prominence in Germ [...] |
2009-09-03 08:11:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EUN GM |
| 09MUNICH24 |
MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE - FOCUS ON [...] (SBU) Afghanistan was a primary focus of the February 6-8 Munich Security Conference (MSC). Criticism of Afghan President Karzai was a major theme in the statements and questions of conference participants. For his part, Karzai put a positive spin on developments in Afghanistan and ascribed th [...] |
2009-02-11 15:10:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV NATO GM AF |
| 09MUNICH241 |
BAVARIAN CALL TO ARMS - CSU DEFENDS GERMAN DEFENSE [...] (C) The consolidation of the global defense industry will affect Germany and Bavaria significantly, the Christian Social Union (CSU), Germany's leading regional political party, warned its members at a party congress on September 4 in Munich. Speakers mocked Germany's overly modest and hide- [...] |
2009-09-21 07:47:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL FR IT UK GM |
| 09MUNICH25 |
YOUTHFUL POLITICIANS SHAKE UP GERMAN STATUS QUO [...] (SBU) Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (37) is Germany's new and youngest-ever Economics Minister, assuming a portfolio for which he is not wholly suited academically (REF A) but which he could master using his proven personal and political skills. If he is successful, he could become the poster chi [...] |
2009-02-13 06:01:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL INRB GM |
| 09MUNICH250 |
GERMAN ELECTIONS: CSU TO CDU - YOU STILL NEED US BADLY [...] (SBU) Chancellor Merkel and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) depend on Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) to do well in the September 27 Bundestag election in order to strengthen the overall CDU/CSU result. Any CSU result within polling ranges of 43 to 46 percent would [...] |
2009-09-25 11:12:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV GM |
| 09MUNICH254 |
BLACK AND BLUE, BAVARIA'S CSU SEEKS NEW RELEVANCE [...] (SBU) The September 27 Bundestag election showed that the Christian Social Union (CSU)of Bavaria has lost its nimbus as a regional superpower in Germany. The CSU will remain a U.S. ally in foreign and security policy fields. Its focus, however, will mainly be on economic and social issues, a [...] |
2009-10-05 07:20:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL ECON GM |
| 09MUNICH257 |
BAVARIA/IRAN: ABORTED BUSINESS TRIP EMBARRASSES [...] (C) Summary: A German business delegation cancelled an October 1 trip to Iran after interventions from the U.S. Consulate in Munich and the German government. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) in Bavaria planned to send the delegation to Teheran on October 1 but cancelled on Septembe [...] |
2009-10-08 13:46:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IR GM |
| 09MUNICH261 |
Insurance Capital Munich - Industry Experiences Delayed [...] (SBU) Germany's primary insurance firms experienced the economic crisis with a delay. Profits from classic insurance business and international investments are decreasing, and high sums have been paid out after insured businesses have gone bankrupt. Layoffs seem inevitable, as the life insur [...] |
2009-10-16 07:12:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EINV EUN GM |
| 09MUNICH273 |
GERMAN ELECTIONS: BAVARIA WINS BIG INFLUENCE IN [...] (SBU) The Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavaria has celebrated the outcome of the federal coalition negotiations, which awarded the party with three ministries and several state secretary positions. The outcome appears to have reinvigorated Horst Seehofer, Bavarian Minister President and he [...] |
2009-11-06 08:21:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EUN GM |
| 09MUNICH307 |
GERMANY/MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE: SCENE SETTER [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 13. The 46th annual Munich Security Conference (MSC) runs from Friday afternoon, February 5, 2010 to mid-day Sunday, February 7, 2010, at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich. The draft agenda, which follows at paragraph 9 (NOTE: please [...] |
2009-12-17 06:53:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR NATO EUN PARM PGOV ASEC RS AF ZL |
| 09MUNICH324 |
Germany/Bavaria: Upheavals Threaten CSU Revival Hopes [...] (SBU) Accusations of misleading the public and mismanagement threaten the reputations, if not the jobs, of both Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and Bavarian Finance Minister Georg Fahrenschon, two young men on whom many in the Christian Social Union pin their hopes for the future. [...] |
2009-12-18 14:13:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EUN GM |
| 09MUNICH328 |
GERMANY/AFGHANISTAN: IS THE CSU THE WEAKEST LINK [...] (C) Support within Chancellor Merkel,s partner Christian Social Union (CSU) for sending more German troops to Afghanistan is not a sure thing. CSU chief and Bavarian Minister President Seehofer, rattled German policy makers nationwide when he told Bild on December 7 that he had "little sym [...] |
2009-12-22 14:42:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EUN GM AF |
| 09MUNICH48 |
MUNICH TIP SEMINAR HIGHLIGHTS ONGOING CHALLENGES IN [...] Summary: The annual Munich TIP (Trafficking in Persons) seminar sponsored by the Hanns Seidel Stiftung focused on the treatment by German media of the TIP phenomena, public views on the issue, and the need to improve assistance to victims. Some non-governmental participants believed that Germ [...] |
2009-03-10 15:38:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KCRM PHUM SMIG ELAB GG |
| 09MUNICH62 |
THE PROSECUTION OF JOHN DEMJANJUK [...] (C) Summary: Consulate General Munich and Embassy Berlin have actively pursued Washington goals with regard to the removal to Germany and prosecution of John Demjanjuk by German authorities. The German Federal Government has agreed to act on the arrest warrant issued by the Munich State Pro [...] |
2009-03-20 15:17:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | GM OPDC PREL |
| 09MUNICH68 |
BAVARIAN HOME PARTY FIGHTS FOR LOCAL SUPPORT, [...] (SBU) Christian Social Union (CSU) party chief Horst Seehofer must prove to voters that his weakened party is still standard bearer for Bavaria in order to make the five percent hurdle in the June 7 European Parliamentary elections. He is casting his party as an indispensible faction repre [...] |
2009-03-27 16:11:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GM |
| 09MUNICH90 |
BAVARIAN CSU FLIRTS WITH BECOMING A CONSERVATIVE GREEN [...] In his first election test as leader of Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU) and in a bid to win back the CSU base or to attract new voters, Minister President Horst Seehofer has reversed earlier positions and come out strictly opposed to genetically engineered organisms. Although he is now [...] |
2009-04-30 15:44:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EAGR ETRD TBIO GM |
| 10MUNICH16 |
BAVARIA/GERMAN POLITICS: CSU STRUGGLES TO REGAIN ITS [...] (SBU) A sobering opinion poll has given the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) only 41 percent, a clear sign that the party's crisis continues, although at 41 percent the CSU was still twice as popular as any other party in Bavaria. Minister President Seehofer remains optimistic about the [...] |
2010-01-22 13:04:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GM |
| 10MUNICH28 |
Business and Power: Green Mega Project "Desertec" Goes [...] (SBU) The 400-billion euro project "Desertec," designed to capture Saharan solar energy and transmit it to European homes, now has a corporate structure and a CEO. Consortium leader and initiator Munich Re is confident they can overcome all obstacles, including big financial and technical prob [...] |
2010-02-16 08:42:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL SENV EU GM XF |
| 10MUNICH29 |
GERMANY/BAVARIA: HORST SEEHOFER, MOSTLY FOCUSED ON [...] (C) Horst Seehofer, an unpredictable politician struggling to regain his party's hegemony in Bavaria, revealed only shallow foreign policy expertise when he met Ambassador Murphy on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on February 6. Seehofer, Minister President and leader of the [...] |
2010-02-16 08:58:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV INRB GM |
| 10MUNICH34 |
ARAB MEDIA, ONLINE CHAT ROOMS AND THE MUNICH SECURITY [...] (U) The handshake between Prince Turki al Faisal, the former head of Saudi Arabia's Intelligence Service, and Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon off stage but in public view at the Munich Security Conference (Munich, February 5-7, reported septels) drew the attention of Arab websites [...] |
2010-02-23 08:29:00 | Consulate Munich | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EINT KISL XF XD GM |