This coming Monday, Germany will be brought to a virtual standstill - on railways, on rivers and at airports: The trade union Verdi and the Railway and Transport Union (EVG) have called for a large-scale nationwide warning strike in the transport sector for that day.
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Water levels on the Franco-German section of the Rhine river are so low that some vessels cannot sail even when empty, although long-awaited rain has begun to ease bottlenecks along Europe's main commercial…