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☆ Opinion | My Job and I: Is This a Love Letter?
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-12 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com sentiment -0.98 time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again” (Sunday Review, April 11):Like Emi Nietfeld, I felt deeply lost in my early 20s, and when I landed a job at a tech start-up, I thought that I’d been saved. When I finally left, I swore that I would never love a job again. After six months at my new job (chosen because I knew that I could never love it), I learned that I couldn’t stand spending 40 hours a week doing work that sparked no passion. I learned that it is possible to love your job without losing yourself if your employer’s long-term strategy doesn’t rely on burnout. Instead of telling workers to set boundaries, maybe we should devote more of our public discourse to how companies can inspire employees without exploiting them.

Persons: Emi Nietfeld, I’d

☆ A former Google engineer said she endured a year of harassment. She's now vowing to 'never love a job again.'
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-08 | by ( Tyler Sonnemaker | ) www.businessinsider.com + 0.00 time to read: +3 min

Ex-Google engineer Emi Nietfeld said she endured harassment and retaliation while working there. In an op-ed for The New York Times, she said Google's response led her to vow to "never love a job again." "Saying anything about his behavior meant challenging the story we told ourselves about Google being so special," Nietfeld wrote, adding: "Google was the Garden of Eden; I lived in fear of being cast out." When she eventually filed a formal HR complaint, Nietfeld wrote: "Google went from being a great workplace to being any other company." I fell for the fantasy that it could be," Nietfeld wrote.

Persons: Emi Nietfeld, Nietfeld, —, It's Organizations: The New York Times, Workers, Google

☆ Opinion | After Working at Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-07 | by ( Emi Nietfeld | ) www.nytimes.com + 0.00 time to read: +3 min

was filed, Google went from being a great workplace to being any other company: It would protect itself first. I later learned that Google had similar responses to other employees who reported racism or sexism. My manager told me H.R. wouldn’t even make him change his desk, let alone work from home or go on leave. Six months after my return, when I broached the subject of promotion, he told me, “People in wood houses shouldn’t light matches.”

Persons: Claire Stapleton, Timnit, wouldn’t, I’d, ” Organizations: Google

☆ The Nord Stream 2 dilemma: Why a trans-Atlantic dispute is likely to go from very bad to even worse
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-09 | by ( Sam Meredith | ) www.cnbc.com + 0.00 time to read: +6 min

If finished, the 1,230-kilometer (764-mile) Nord Stream 2 pipeline will become one of the longest offshore gas pipelines in the world. It is designed to deliver Russian gas directly to Germany under the Baltic Sea, bypassing Ukraine. Is Nord Stream 2 inevitable? Nord Stream 2 is a 1,230-kilometer (764-mile) gas pipeline that will double the capacity of the existing undersea route from Russian fields to Europe — the original Nord Stream — which opened in 2011. The special ship is being used for construction work on the German-Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea.

Persons: Joe Biden, Critics, Vladimir Putin's, Russia's, Alexei Navalny, What's, Kristine Berzina, Berzina, Chancellor Angela Merkel, Kay Nietfeld, that's, Angela Merkel, Timothy Ash, Ash, Andrey Rudakov, It's, James Waddell, Waddell, Jens Büttner Organizations: Russia's Gazprom, Alliance, Securing Democracy, CNBC, Gazprom, Getty, Bluebay Asset Management, Bloomberg, Energy, U.S Locations: Russia, Germany, Baltic, Ukraine, U.S, Russian, Europe, Nord, Ust, Luga

☆ ECB'S Lagarde wishes 'smart and inclusive' Yellen success as U.S. Treasury Secretary
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-21 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com + 1.00 time to read: 1 min

FILE PHOTO: European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde wears a protective mask as she attends the Informal Meeting of Ministers for Economics and Financial Affairs in Berlin, Germany, September 11, 2020. Kay Nietfeld/Pool via REUTERSFRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday welcomed what she predicted would be “smart and inclusive” leadership of the U.S. economy under Treasury Secretary-designate Janet Yellen. “I ... wish my colleague and friend Janet Yellen the very best in her endeavour to lead the U.S. economy in the way that she can only do it. Inclusively and very smartly,” Lagarde told the bank’s post-policy meeting news conference. Yellen was Federal Reserve chair from 2014 to 2018.

Persons: Christine Lagarde, Kay Nietfeld, Janet Yellen, “, ” Lagarde, Yellen Organizations: Central Bank, Economics, Financial Affairs, REUTERS FRANKFURT, Treasury, Federal Locations: Berlin, Germany, U.S

☆ German foreign minister says Navalny should be released immediately
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-18 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com sentiment -0.91 time to read: 1 min

FILE PHOTO: German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas listens to his counterpart Djordje Radulovic of Montenegro during their meeting in Berlin, Germany, January 15, 2021. Kay Nietfeld/Pool via REUTERS/File PhotoBERLIN (Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny should be released immediately, Germany’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Monday. “Russia is bound by its own constitution and by international obligations to the principle of the rule of law and to the protection of civil rights,” Maas said in a statement. “These principles must, of course, be applied to Alexei Navalny as well. He should be released immediately.”Police detained prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on arrival in Moscow on Sunday after he flew home to Russia from Germany for the first time since he was poisoned last summer, triggering a political clash with the West.

Persons: Heiko Maas, Djordje, Kay Nietfeld, Alexei Navalny, ” Maas Organizations: BERLIN, “, ” Police Locations: Montenegro, Berlin, Germany, “ Russia, Moscow, Russia

☆ Record daily German COVID-19 deaths spark Merkel 'mega-lockdown' plan: Bild
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-14 | by ( Andreas Rinke | Caroline Copley | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +3 min

A general view of a vaccination centre, temporarily set up in the Erika-Hess ice stadium to fight the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Berlin, Germany, January 14, 2021. Kay Nietfeld/Pool via REUTERSChancellor Angela Merkel wanted a “mega-lockdown”, mass-selling newspaper Bild reported, shutting down the country almost completely for fear of fast-spreading variant of the virus first detected in Britain. While Germany’s total deaths per capita since the pandemicbegan remain far lower than the United States, its daily percapita mortality since mid-December has often exceeded that ofthe United States. Germany’s daily death toll currently equates to about 15deaths per million people, versus a 13 U.S. deaths per million. “At the end of the year we will have this pandemic undercontrol,” Wieler said.

Persons: Erika, Hess, Kay Nietfeld, Angela Merkel, Bild, Robert Koch, Lothar Wieler, havenot, Wieler, Winfried Kretschmann, Wuerttemberg, Merkel, ” Wieler Organizations: BERLIN, Reuters, Robert Koch Institute Locations: Germany, Berlin, Britain, United States, U.S, Thuringia, South Africa

☆ Merkel wants 'very fast action' against virus after record deaths
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-14 | by ( Andreas Rinke | Caroline Copley | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +3 min

BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel wants “very fast action” to counter the spread of COVID-19 mutations, she told a meeting of top officials from her party on Thursday after Germany recorded a record number of deaths from the coronavirus. A general view of a vaccination centre, temporarily set up in the Erika-Hess ice stadium to fight the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Berlin, Germany, January 14, 2021. “The virus can only be stopped with additional efforts,” the participants quoted her as saying. Germany’s daily death toll currently equates to about 15 deaths per million people, versus a U.S. toll of 13 deaths per million. But it has seen asharp rise in cases and deaths in recent months, with the RKIsaying people were not taking the virus seriously enough.

Persons: Angela Merkel, Erika, Hess, Kay Nietfeld, REUTERS Merkel, Robert Koch, Merkel, Lothar Wieler, havenot, Wieler, ” Organizations: BERLIN, REUTERS, Christian, U.S, Robert Koch Institute Locations: COVID, Germany, Berlin, United States, Thuringia, Britain, South Africa

☆ Germany's economy contracted by 5% in 2020 as coronavirus lockdowns hit growth
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-14 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com sentiment -0.99 time to read: +1 min

Kay Nietfeld | AFP | Getty ImagesGermany's economy contracted by 5% in 2020, according to full-year GDP (gross domestic product) data released on Thursday. The preliminary figures, which were slightly better than the 5.1% forecast, come after a year of economic turbulence for Germany, and the rest of the world, as the coronavirus pandemic prompted disruption to businesses and large swathes of the economy. Coronavirus cases have prompted several lockdowns on public life and economic activity in Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel announced last week that the latest lockdown would be extended until the end of the month. On Thursday, Germany reported more than 25,000 new cases of the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking its total number of cases to 1,978,590, data from the Robert Koch Institute showed.

Persons: Angela Merkel, Kay Nietfeld, Chancellor Angela Merkel, Merkel, Robert Koch Organizations: Corona, AFP, Getty, Christian Democratic Union, Robert Locations: Berlin, Germany

☆ Facebook's renamed cryptocurrency is still 'wolf in sheep's clothing': German Finance Minister
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-07 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com sentiment -1.00 time to read: 1 min

FILE PHOTO: German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz holds a virtual news conference in Berlin, Germany, November 27, 2020. Kay Nietfeld/Pool via REUTERS/File PhotoBERLIN (Reuters) - It will take more than renaming Facebook’s cryptocurrency to address the concerns regulators have about authorising its launch in Germany and Europe, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Monday. In a statement after a video conference of G7 finance ministers at which cryptocurrencies were discussed, Scholz said that relaunching Libra under its new name of Diem was only a cosmetic change. “A wolf in sheep’s clothing is still a wolf,” he said. “It is clear to me that Germany and Europe cannot and will not accept its entry into the market while the regulatory risks are not adequately addressed.”He added: “We must do everything possible to make sure the currency monopoly remains in the hands of states.”

Persons: Olaf Scholz, Kay Nietfeld, cryptocurrencies, Scholz, Diem, ” Organizations: German, BERLIN Locations: Berlin, Germany, Europe

☆ Germany's Scholz: No EU country 'so unwise' to block recovery plan over rule-of-law
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-01 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com + 0.73 time to read: 1 min

FILE PHOTO: German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz holds a virtual news conference in Berlin, Germany, November 27, 2020. Kay Nietfeld/Pool via REUTERSBERLIN (Reuters) - European Union member states will soon agree on a disputed rule-of-law mechanism linked to the bloc’s recovery plan as all countries, including Poland and Hungary, would benefit from its approval, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday. “For me, this is a question where it’s important to belong to those who never give up. And that is why I remain confident that we will soon be able to come to an agreement,” Scholz as current EU chair told reporters following a virtual meeting of EU finance ministers. “I am sure that no one will be so unwise as to prevent decisions from being made now,” Scholz said.

Persons: Olaf Scholz, Kay Nietfeld, ” Scholz, “ Organizations: German, REUTERS BERLIN, Union Locations: Berlin, Germany, Poland, Hungary

☆ Germany's Scholz: No EU country would be "so unwise" as to block recovery plan
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-01 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com sentiment -0.93 time to read: +2 min

FILE PHOTO: German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz holds a virtual news conference in Berlin, Germany, November 27, 2020. “For me, this is a question where it’s important to belong to those who never give up,” Scholz as current EU chair told reporters following a virtual meeting of EU finance ministers. “I am sure that no one will be so unwise as to prevent decisions from being made now,” Scholz said. Asked whether EU finance ministers had discussed a ‘Plan B’ in case Poland and Hungary would stick to their veto, Scholz said that trust in European leaders was needed now. Because you wouldn’t need Plan As if you only had Plan Bs.”European lawmakers have suggested that the remaining 25 EU members states could push ahead with their recovery plan if Poland and Hungary remained opposed.

Persons: Olaf Scholz, Kay Nietfeld, Angela Merkel, ” Scholz, Scholz, “ Organizations: BERLIN, Union, German, REUTERS, European Union Locations: Poland, Hungary, Berlin, Germany, REUTERS Poland, Brussels, EU

☆ Merkel after Biden victory: We must continue to work on ties with U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-09 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com sentiment -0.66 time to read: 1 min

FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel wears a protective mask as she arrives before the weekly cabinet meeting in Berlin, Germany, November 4, 2020. Kay Nietfeld/Pool via REUTERSBERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden knew Germany well and added that it was crucial to keep working on the relationship between the United States and Germany. Merkel said the partners needed to work together to tackle issues such as the coronavirus pandemic, climate change and terrorism.

Persons: Angela Merkel, Kay Nietfeld, Joe Biden, Merkel Organizations: REUTERS BERLIN Locations: Berlin, Germany, United States

Like the U.S., pandemic fatigue has set in across Europe where residents say pubs and bars in the U.K. and France have been packed ahead of the lockdowns. The worsening outbreak in Europe is starting to strain hospital systems there, which epidemiologists worry will happen in the U.S. in the coming weeks. The United Kingdom has averaged more than 22,347 new cases per day over the previous week, Johns Hopkins data shows. Italy reported a record 27,864 average new cases on Tuesday, up 58% from the previous week, according to the data. Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said the U.S. outbreak is about three weeks behind Europe, where cases are "astronomical."

Persons: Stephane Mahe, Emanuel Macron, Joseph Savage, Savage, it's, Kathleen Williams, Boris Johnson, Williams, who's, Jason Alden, It's, Johns Hopkins, Angela Merkel, Kay Nietfeld, Bill Schaffner, They're, Lara, Maria Kullak, David Cain, that's, Cain, they're, Syra Madad, Scott Gottlieb, Dominique Costagliola, Costagliola, you've, Damien Meyer, I'm, Liz Warren, she's, Warren, Hannah Weiler, CNBC's Elliot Smith, Lucy Handley, Natasha Turak, Nate Rattner, Noah Higgins, Dunn Organizations: Reuters, CNBC, Bloomberg, Getty, United, Johns Hopkins University, The, Corona, AFP, Vanderbilt University, National Health Service, New York, New York City Health, Food and Drug, U.S Locations: Lorient, France, Europe, Lancashire, England, London, United States, U.S, America, The United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Hopkins, Berlin, New, New York City, Spain, Paris, Rennes, Cologne, Dubai, New York

☆ Lockdown Merkel hopes to agree with state leaders would start on Nov. 2: Bild
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-28 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures during the weekly cabinet meeting in Berlin, Germany, October 28, 2020. Kay Nietfeld/Pool via REUTERSBERLIN (Reuters) - A nationwide lockdown that Chancellor Angela Merkel is hoping to agree with the premiers of Germany’s states on Wednesday would start on Nov. 2, German newspaper Bild reported. A draft resolution seen by Reuters earlier had said the circuit-breaker lockdown would begin on Nov. 4.

Persons: Angela Merkel, Kay Nietfeld Organizations: REUTERS BERLIN, Reuters, Germany Locations: Berlin, Germany, Berlin

☆ Lockdown Merkel hopes to agree with state leaders would start on Nov. 2: Bild
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-28 | by ( Reuters Staff | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Persons: Angela Merkel, Kay Nietfeld Organizations: REUTERS BERLIN, Reuters, Germany Locations: Berlin, Germany, Berlin

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