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Almost half of Germans what to see the Deutsche Mark restored, with just 41 per cent saying they want to keep the euro. The YouGov-Institute survey, commissioned by the newspaper Bild, found that 49 per cent of Germans want their nation to have its own, independent currency again. Meanwhile, 41 per cent of those questioned wanted to stay with the euro, the single currency of the European Union (EU). Nearly 77 per cent of the 1,068 Germans quizzed thought they had not profited from the adoption of the euro currency. A decisive 60 per cent said they would vote against having...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The United States will lose its position as the world's undisputed leading power over the next decade and a half, with China emerging as a formidable rival, according to a new survey from Germany's Bertelsmann Foundation. In the survey, based on interviews of 10,250 people worldwide, 57 percent of respondents said they believed the United States would be a world power in the year 2020 compared to 55 percent who saw China in that role. That compared to 81 percent who currently see the United States as a world power and 45 percent who believe China has...