i m an oil baron, he left that out. but that s what the approach was, and yet when it comes time to actually show that level of transparent solidarity. as people pile on qatar for its laws, for its customs, for authoritarian rule, we have to remember that fifa and western sponsors, we have to remember that all the nations lined up to do this over the last decade, which makes some of the protests now a little bit thin. let me read your piece, dave, and then i want to bring in rick stengel to this conversation. you write this for msnbc. we can express solidarity with the lgbtq community of qatar and a express solidarity with the women and migrant laborers who died while helping qatar look presentable for this world cup and link the laws to a broader international trend to right
makes up a large part of our investment portfolio. because we have a lot of faith in the german economy and the chances for growth. the german economy has a good reputation. already has holdings in folks bergen siemens and the door bank and has a strong interest in cooperating on energy projects. the new energy sector in my opinion has strong potential any expansion of our business relationship you still wants to reduce its dependency on gas exports in four years the emirate will host the world soccer championship and construction is taking place everywhere expanding the infrastructure requires massive expertise from outside the country and due to an ongoing boycott by neighboring states is more isolated than ever so an opening to europe is vital and this could be good news for german companies qatar is
the big question sixty three year old both sinatra has shocked many across brazil with his racist and homophobic comments but the far right candidate has performed strongly in recent polls and his closest rival has been ordered to prison that s former leftist president lula da silva must still overturn a ban on him running in the election after being convicted on corruption charges. so now relief among supporters as word spreads their man is expected to recover from a brutal attack that could throw the nation s sympathy and support his way crystal s his back is what looks like a lucrative hook up between guitar and germany qatar state owned petroleum company is in talks with german firms juniper and r. w. e. about a possible liquid gas terminal now the gulf nation has one of the largest gas reserves
in the world and is looking for more customers qatari german business relations go beyond gas however qatar s estate investment fund owns stakes in some of germany s biggest companies including fox wagon siemens chemical giant a b s f and deutsche bank that is more than three hundred german forms are now active in qatar with projects worth seventy three billion euros among them are who tif building there and. helping qatar prepare for the twenty twenty two world cup now today the country announced that it would invest a further ten billion euros in germany over the next five years it could tare business delegation is a member lin to set up the details. qatar is a tiny country but you wouldn t guess that from the size of the delegation that arrived in berlin to look for business opportunities. i have it with an i want you to that germany is one of our most important trade partners. in this league germany already
a country which has acquired a huge fund and they have proved that they give capital in a very responsible way also to rest kompany is also determined companies but could task suffers from many political issues among them the status of foreign workers imported for the stadium projects but german building companies say they will improve working conditions on their projects in qatar. twenty five years ago forty five and opened its plant and the polish city of pas not at the time it was an investment of about one billion euros and it s been quite worth while for the german carmaker but while the solidarity union has largely been cooperative some of the three thousand workers say they re not getting their fair share of the factory success. every one hundred seven seconds a new v.w.