Europe works on new euro zone bond plan: report

BERLIN (Reuters) - German news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Saturday that leaders of European institutions are working on a comprehensive plan to rescue the euro that would include the issuance of joint euro bonds - a move Germany has repeatedly rejected. ...

Al-Qaeda and its allies are planning an attack on the German parliament, the news magazine Der Spiegel reports in its edition to be published on Monday.Quoting police sources Der Spiegel said the attack would involve a hostage taking in Berlin's historic Reichstag building.Germany's Federal Crime Office (BKA) was informed about the plans in several telephone calls from a jihadist abroad, who allegedly wanted to quit an extremist group, the magazine said.

Germany, the world's number two exporter, expects healthy growth in foreign demand for its goods thanks to booming emerging markets and a nascent US recovery, according to a report on Sunday.News magazine Der Spiegel cited a new poll for the German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK) among 3,200 firms forecasting a four-percent rise in exports in 2012.The figure was down slightly from the average over the last 10 years of nearly six-percent growth in exports, traditionally the backbone of Europe's top economy, Der Spiegel said.

PARIS (Reuters) - A media report that a planned merger between European aerospace group EADS and British defense company BAE Systems was on the brink of collapse is "unfounded", a senior French government source said on Friday. Both the French president's office and the prime minister's office said they had no comment on a report in the online edition of Germany's Der Spiegel news magazine, citing German government sources, saying the talks had practically collapsed. (Reporting By Elizabeth Pineau; Writing by John Irish)

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