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The 2023 German public transport strike was a nationwide labor strike that occurred in March 2023 in Germany.The strike was organized by Ver.di and EVG, two major transport unions, who demanded a 10.5% pay increase for their members to offset rising food and energy costs.
The German government has had issues with upkeep of the country's autobahn network, having had to revamp the Eastern portion's transport system since the unification of Germany between the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). With that, numerous construction projects have been put on hold ...
On 3 June 1998, Part of an ICE 1 train on the Hannover–Hamburg railway near Eschede in Lower Saxony, Germany derailed and crashed into an overpass that crossed the railroad, which then collapsed onto the train. 101 people were killed and at least 88 were injured, making it the second-deadliest railway disaster in German history after the 1939 Genthin rail disaster, and the world's worst ever ...
Minister for Transport Volker Wissing announced he would leave the FDP to remain in his post, also taking over Buschmann's position as Minister of Justice in a dual mandate. [17] Similarly, Stark-Watzinger's position as Minister of Education and Research was taken over by Cem Özdemir, who is the current Minister for Food and Agriculture.
IG Metall said the walkouts were the first large-scale strikes Volkswagen had faced since 2018, when 50,000 workers idled plants over pay. Although the latest work stoppages will last only a few ...
Transport disasters in East Germany (1 C) A. ... (2 C, 3 P) R. Railway accidents and incidents in Germany (7 C, 10 P) Road incidents in Germany (4 C, 3 P)
On October 3, 1990, the reunification of Germany took place. In January 1991, Günther Krause took over the position of Federal Minister of Transport and initiated an inventory of the traffic situation in the new federal states. This was the founding moment for the plans of the German Unification Transport Projects.
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