Any regime that keeps half a taxpayer 's additional earnings is " immoral , " thunders horst seehofer , bavaria 's premier and an ally of the chancellor , angela merkel .
Germany believes china , india and the us should be forced to adopt higher environmental and health standards if they want to export food products to the european union , says horst seehofer , germany 's farm minister .
At a staff meeting , horst neumann , a member of vw 's executive board , said it would halt production at its german plants at christmas for several days longer than planned as demand for its cars had fallen in recent weeks .
When horst khler resigned as president in 2010 , the opposition greens and social democrats put forward mr gauck to succeed him . Mrs merkel preferred christian wulff , premier of lower saxony and a rival within her christian democratic union ( cdu ) .
