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Love for textiles still sewn into Saxony’s fabric

Saxony experienced a sharp decline in its centuries-old textile industry in the years following German reunification in 1990. Yet the sector is anything but dead in this Eastern German state as Hardy Graupner reports. As...

Sunken barges to plug dike in Germany’s flood zone

Authorities in Germany’s flooded Elbe river basin plan to plug a broken dike by sinking two barges in the gap. Federal and regional governments are arguing over how to finance 8 billion euros in flood...