How the Crisis is Hitting Europe (BusinessWeek Online via Yahoo! News)
As Prime Minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Jrgen Rttgers wanted to save one of his industrial state’s biggest employers. So what did he do? He hopped a plane to Detroit, of course. On Feb. 18, Rttgers met with General Motors Chief Executive Rick Wagoner in an effort to persuade him not to shutter a factory in the city of Bochum, where 5,000 workers make sedans and minivans …
From running news on Greek real estate

