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Dr. Roman Pausch, Chairman of the Board of Management and CEO of Rausch & Pausch (RAPA) Automotive has announced the promotion of Carmen Jordan to president & CEO of RAPA LP in Auburn, Alabama. According to Dr. Pausch, “She combines technical competence as an engineer, personal qualities as a manager with many years of professional […]

A German company has made a minority investment in a Birmingham supply chain tech company. HeidelbergCement, a German-based manufacturer of building materials and solutions, has signed an agreement to make a minority investment to acquire 45% in Command Alkon. This deal is part of HeidelbergCement’s new partnership with San Francisco-based software investment firm Thoma Bravo, which

The Social Democrats narrowly defeated Angela Merkel’s conservative party on Sunday, setting the stage for tough negotiations to determine who will replace her as chancellor. As Germany’s election results came into sharper focus on Monday, no party won a decisive majority but the loser was clear: Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats. After 16 years in

Simone Menne, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany, discusses what an SPD-led government could mean for transatlantic and Chinese relations. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/09/27/american-chamber-of-commerce-in-germany-reacts-to-the-german-elections.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will ease foreign travel restrictions to the country beginning in November, allowing foreigners in if they have proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test, the White House said Monday. The new rules will replace a hodgepodge of restrictions that had barred non-citizens who had been in Europe, much of

After a decade and a half, the era of German Chancellor Angela Merkel is coming to an end. Having chosen not to run in national elections this month, she will become the country’s first premier to leave the power of her own volition. If negotiations to form a new government drag on after the Sept.

About 60.4 million people are eligible to vote in Germany on September 26 — that’s a drop of 1.3 million on the last general election four years ago. And more than half of the electorate is over the age of 50. This shift is part of a broader demographic change in Germany that continues to see

Please help us welcome the new Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Atlanta (covering the Southeast US), Melanie Moltmann. We hope to see you in the near future in the state of Alabama the Beautiful.

Huntsville’s Adtran and Munich-based Adva will merge, with the new company retaining Adtran’s name and headquarters in Alabama and Germany. MarketWatch valued the all-stock deal at $931.1 million. The merger will “create a leading global, scaled provider of end-to-end fiber networking solutions for communications service provider, enterprise and government customers,” according to a press release, combining Adtran’s leadership

As expected, the European Union recommended today that its 27 member nations reinstate travel restrictions for American tourists because of rising coronavirus infections in the United States. The European Council has decided to remove the U.S. from its ‘safe list’ of countries for nonessential travel. This is a reversal from its June decision to recommend lifting restrictions