The main issue for the Verdi union is not to oppose the cuts, but to take part in deciding when and where the axe should fall.

German universities are facing the biggest austerity programme of the postwar era. State governments in Berlin and across the ...

IN 1979, the Technische Hoschshule was established in Berlin following the fusion of two existing technical academies: the Gewerbeakademie, a species of polytechnic dating from 1821 ; and the ...

MUNICH, Germany—For his novel research and pioneering work in combining boron and silicon with organic molecules, Martin Oestreich, a professor at the Technical University of Berlin, has received the ...