Juergen Ruettgers

• German Vote Will Curb Power of Chancellor

BERLIN - Angela Merkel's center-right alliance lost a key election in Germany's most populous state on Sunday, costing the chancellor her majority in the upper house of parliament and curbing her government's power, projections showed. The state election in North Rhine-Westphalia - the first electoral test since Merkel's second term started last October - had loomed over European efforts to tackle the Greek debt crisis.

... together and oust conservative governor Juergen Ruettgers. A hard-left rival, the Left Party, was ...

• Charleston Daily Mail
• May 11, 2010

• Fatalist attraction: the dubious case against fooling Mother Nature.

Biotechnological advances - Editorial Biotechnological advances, especially in the field of medicine, result because of the needs of normal, individual people. This is in contrast to charges from bioethicists, who have taken action against biotechnology, that scientific research is unnatural and evil.

... earth," says German Research Minister Juergen Ruettgers, demanding a worldwide ban, lest such su...

• Reason
• Vol. 29 Nbr. 3, July 1997

• Gm Puts Brakes On Opel Deal ; Cancellation Angers German Politicians.

BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's politicians fumed with anger and Opel workers canceled cost concessions and readied walkouts after General Motors Co. abandoned the sale of its European subsidiary to parts maker Magna International and Russian lender Sberbank. Klaus Franz, Adam Opel GmbH's top employee representative, called it a "black day" and said workers would start brief work stoppages tomorrow.

...Juergen Ruettgers, the governor of North-Rhine Westphalia ...

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• July 28, 2010