"We want Germany to be our sherpa on this job training adventure, " he told Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper.

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"Never has transplant medicine been as secure as it is today, " he told the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung warns that "Britain's conduct is quite simply getting on the nerves" of its EU partners.

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He also said the temporary bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), would be adequate to help Spain and Cyprus, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine reported.

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"It would not be sensible to develop a successor model for the current Maybach, " said chief executive Dieter Zetsche in an interview with German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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"What you find on the internet is that some Dortmund fans are not that disappointed that Gotze cannot play, " said Peter Penders, a sports journalist with German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine.

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Speaking to Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper, Mr Frieden acknowledged that other countries were increasingly demanding more information on what their citizens were doing with their money in foreign banks.

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The row has echoes of the debate sparked last October when the Christian Democrat parliamentary floor leader Friedrich Merz said that foreigners in Germany should be expected to show allegiance to the "dominant culture", the Frankfurter Allgemeine daily said.

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" The center-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany's most respected paper, noted that while the idea has been predictably attacked by unions and some business interests, "massive resistance by people representing particular interests and associations is the most certain sign that this is the right path to take.

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