Anti-Nokia backlash grows in Germany

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BERLIN (AFP) - Anti-Nokia anger in Germany for closing a factory is growing with politicians publicly ditching the firm's phones and joining calls for a national boycott in Europe's largest economy.

The Finnish mobile phone giant said on Tuesday it plans to close the factory in Bochum in the Ruhr industrial heartland and shift production to Romania where labour costs are lower. The closure will result in 2,300 job losses.

The anger at Nokia is partly fuelled by the fact that the German government and the state of North-Rhine Westphalia, where Bochum lies, have provided the company with some 80 million euros (117 million dollars) in aid.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080120/bs_afp/germanyfinlandtelecomcutscompanynokiaeu

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1. It's refreshing to see a culture

that ask questions and react in a manor that will affect a corporation.