"Never has transplant medicine been as secure as it is today, " he told the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung warns that "Britain's conduct is quite simply getting on the nerves" of its EU partners.

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"It would not be sensible to develop a successor model for the current Maybach, " said chief executive Dieter Zetsche in an interview with German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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" The center-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany's most respected paper, noted that while the idea has been predictably attacked by unions and some business interests, "massive resistance by people representing particular interests and associations is the most certain sign that this is the right path to take.

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