The car manufacturer Volkswagen AG confirmed that its chairman of the board, Ferdinand Piech, plans to convey to General Motors his deepest regrets regarding the affair surrounding the manager Lopez. A spokesperson for VW said the statement was part of an interview to be published in Stern magazine this Thursday. Elbe river to be deepened The north German heads of state today made the political decision to deepen the bed of the Elbe river. In a meeting with Hamburg mayor Henning Voscherau, the minister presidents of Schleswig-Holstein, Heide Simonis, and of Lower Saxony, Gerhard Schroeder, pledged to support plans to increase river depth to allow passage of larger container ships. After the joint cabinet meeting in Kiel, Simonis said people in the North knew that they are economically dependent on the Hamburg port.
Construction is scheduled to start next fall.
Today and tomorrow mostly foggy and cloudy, but no precipitation is expected. Day temperatures will be around the freezing mark.