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Germany pessimistic over crisis summit (AP)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts as she arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting  at the chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011.  (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP – Germany suggested Wednesday that European leaders could fail to agree on a plan to tighten the continent’s economic ties by the end of the week, dampening investors’ optimism about a broad resolution of Europe’s debt crisis.


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Germany, France grappling to agree debt deal (AP)

AP – Germany tried to put an optimistic face on discussions with France over a strategy to deal with Europe’s crippling debt crisis Friday, despite a warning from a French minister that the euro currency itself was under threat.

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Pope begins state visit to Germany (AP)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, President Christian Wulff , 2nd from right, and his wife Bettina Wulff, right, welcome Pope Benedict XVI, 2nd from left, as he arrives at the airport Tegel in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI is on a four-day official visit to his homeland Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP – Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Germany on Thursday on his first state visit to his homeland, where he is expected to be greeted by large protests and even larger crowds of Catholic faithful.


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Germany: Sprouts did cause deadly E. coli outbreak (AP)

Reinhard Burger, president of the Robert Koch Institute speaks during a press conference in Berlin, Friday June 10, 2011. Investigators have determined that German-grown vegetable sprouts are the cause of the E. coli outbreak that has killed so far 29 people and sickened nearly 3,000, the head of Germany's national disease control center said Friday.  Reinhard Burger, president of the Robert Koch Institute, said even though no tests of the sprouts from an organic farm in Lower Saxony had come back positive for the E. coli strain behind the outbreak, an investigation into the pattern of the outbreak had produced enough evidence to draw the conclusion. (AP Photo/dapd/ Michele Tantussi)AP – German vegetable sprouts caused the E. coli outbreak that has killed 31 people and sickened more than 3,000, investigators announced Friday after tracking the bacteria from patients in hospital beds to restaurants and then farm fields.


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Germany: Rise in reported E.coli cases (AP)

An employee of  'Werder Frucht' vegetables company throws away tomatoes in Werder, eastern Germany,  Tuesday June 7, 2011. The EU's farm chief on Tuesday proposed 150 million euro  ($219 million) in aid to help producers hit by the continent's E. coli contamination crisis. European Union Farm Commissioner Dacian Ciolos said agriculture ministers will consider whether farmers can recoup from EU coffers up to 30 percent of the value of vegetables that cannot be sold because of the German E. coli crisis. An agreement in principle on aid is expected later Tuesday.  EU farmers outside northern Germany where the crisis is located have been livid that their crops have been hurt by the fallout of the continentwide scare.  (AP Photo/dapd/ Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert)AP – Germany’s national disease control center says the number of people reported sick in a deadly bacterial outbreak is still rising even though German officials say there is hope the epidemic is abating.


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EU health chief criticizes Germany over E. coli (AP)

AP – The European Union health chief on Tuesday warned Germany against premature — and inaccurate — conclusions on the source of contaminated food that have spread fear all over Europe and cost farmers in exports.

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Germany backtracks on sprouts as E. coli source (AP)

A man balances on a pile of cucumbers collected for destruction at a greenhouse compound outside Bucharest, Romania, Monday, June 6, 2011. Producers destroyed thousands of tons of cucumbers over the past two days, according to local media, after their production was either turned back from exports or refused for sale by supermarkets in Romania for fear of E. coli bacteria contamination. The current crisis is the deadliest known E. coli outbreak, killing at least 22 people and sickening more than 2,300 across Europe. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)AP – First they pointed a finger at Spanish cucumbers. Then they cast suspicion on sprouts from Germany. Now German officials appear dumbfounded as to the source of the deadliest E. coli outbreak in modern history, and one U.S. expert called the investigation a “disaster.”


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