Word: bavaria
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...extremist Muslim clergy - can be deported even if they don't break the law. "In the future, it will be easier to deport foreigners who took part in training in terror camps or who incite hatred," said Günther Beckstein, Interior Minister of Christian Social Union-ruled Bavaria. That's got civil libertarians worried. The law should "not mean we can reject people or kick them out for expressing their opinions," says Reinhard Bütikofer, chairman of the Green Party. But Bütikofer concedes the new law will also make it easier for asylum seekers to seek...
...socially unjust." Now disgruntled SPD members and trade unionists are threatening to form an alternative leftist party. "There's no doubt at all - if there are no changes, there will be a new party," says Thomas Händel, an official of the powerful IG Metall engineering union in Bavaria and a 33-year SPD member. Despite Händel's tough talk, discussions about setting up a new party are still in the early stages. A group of dissident SPD members called the Initiative for Work and Social Justice set up a website in early March that...
...Austrian antifraud investigators who rarely laid eyes on a fake schilling before the changeover reported 3,000 cases of counterfeit euros last year. This year, they've seen 15,000, mostly originating in Bulgaria, says Erich Zwettler, an anticounterfeiting investigator in Vienna. Next door in the German state of Bavaria, police also report an increase in forgeries from Lithuania, Italy and Turkey (mainly coins). Some 7,500 cases are awaiting trial in Bavaria alone. Police say that the most commonly faked euro bills - 50s, 20s, 100s and 200s, in that order - could become so widespread that vendors will refuse...
...symbol of female subjugation - a view many Muslim women find patronizing. Says Iyman Alzayed, 45, a teacher in Hanover: "My head scarf is just something that hides my hair." Germany has been grappling with these issues for more than a decade. In 1995, its Constitutional Court prohibited overwhelmingly Catholic Bavaria from applying a state law requiring that crucifixes be hung in classrooms. (The verdict has since been skirted by a Bavarian regulation allowing crosses, unless parents object.) In 1998, a young Muslim teacher named Fereshta Ludin applied for a job in Plüderhausen in Baden-Württemberg...
...generation willing to take over," he says. Here comes the great German beer shakeout. At last count, the country had 1,279 breweries, or nearly 75% of all those in the E.U. But Sailer estimates, based on conversations with peers, that one-third of those in his home state, Bavaria, only manage to crank out beer because they subsidize production costs with income from their real-estate holdings. He's managed to survive by repositioning Traunstein as a trendy regional "premium" brew, and by partnering with several tiny brew-pubs. For most German brewers, however, the rule seems...