The word 'Rhine' is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a major European river that flows from Switzerland through Germany and the Netherlands before emptying into the North Sea. Example: The Rhine river is a popular tourist destination, known for its picturesque scenery and historic castles.
France is thought to have at least 20,000 sex workers, far fewer than the 400,000 or so thought to offer their services across the Rhine.
The French are even farther down the slippery slope to fines than their friends on the other side of the Rhine.
As one observer in Berlin puts it, Germany's real fear is not that the euro zone unravels to the Alps, but that it collapses all the way up to the Rhine.
Add to this a generation of officials and politicians on both sides of the Rhine who neither studied at each other's universities nor even speak each other's language and, despite the tight institutional mesh that still ties the two together, there is a sense that the Germans no longer need the French as they once did".For France, it is very difficult to accept," says one French minister.
In fact he was not over-pious, refusing to see his grandfather's sets, even for the sacred "Parsifal", as holy relics; he ignored letters accusing him of betraying German culture when he allowed a communist salute during "Tannhäuser", or when a French "Ring" of 1976 put turbines on the Rhine and turned the Rhine-maidens into whores.
The Dutch, who have centuries of experience of protecting themselves against high water, are already working out how to adapt and build infrastructure to minimise the risks of flooding as sea levels rise and the rain-fed Rhine grows friskier.
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, is attending the service along with the president, Joachim Gauck; the president of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hannelore Kraft; Spain's transport minister, Ana Pastor Julián; and France's foreign minister, Laurent Fabius.
German states such as North Rhine-Westphalia can still charge only about 0.3% above the rock-solid German bond rate, at about 3%.
A CDU alliance with the Greens in North Rhine-Westphalia could pave the way for something similar at federal level after the 2013 election.The CDU's origins are in the Catholic Centre Party of pre-war Germany, the Greens' in the protest movements of the 1960s.
Germany is the world's largest miner of brown coal, and mining belts such as the one in North-Rhine Westphalia are traditional strongholds for the party.
Because of these subsidies, any big transaction involving RAG has to be approved both by the government of its home state, North Rhine-Westphalia, and by the federal government.
