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...strong E.U. security force that could be rapidly deployed. But Continental governments still seem more willing to commit troops to peacekeeping efforts than to engage in reinvigorating NATO itself. "Germany's interest in NATO has diminished," says Christian Hacke, an expert on German foreign relations at the University of Bonn. "Europe is concentrating on itself." But neither the Europeans nor the Americans are ready to give up on NATO. De Hoop Scheffer says "the U.S. is engaged with and committed to the alliance." And however inadvertently, the E.U. itself provided the best argument for NATO's survival...
...principle, Helga Moser doesn't have anything against paying taxes. Like all Germans, the 49-year-old Bonn medical technician has long enjoyed a generous cradle-to-grave welfare system, including a free education and good health care, clean streets, cheap public transport and the reassuring knowledge that she'll get a guaranteed pension when she retires...
...Moser can't help noticing that her taxes keep going up. When she began her career on the medical faculty of Bonn University 25 years ago, she paid about one-third of her salary in taxes and social-security contributions. Today it's about half - far more than the 30% levied in neighboring Switzerland and the U.S., or the 27% rate in Japan. At the same time, beginning next year, the German government will no longer pay for some dental treatment or cover Moser's salary if she falls sick and is off work more than six weeks. That means...
...against the mayor for taking out ads in the local paper last year that urged President Jacques Chirac to veto a U.N. resolution on war with Iraq. "That's not the job of a mayor," Levy says. "In the future, they'll have to be more careful." Back in Bonn, Helga Moser doesn't take part in any taxpayers' groups or file suits against local authorities - but that doesn't mean she's indifferent when she sees her tax money going down the drain. She's still cross about a TV program she watched the other day showing how money...
...crisis meeting of top officials from the BfV, the Federal Criminal Police (BKA) and the Federal Intelligence Service (BND). But only the BND is located in Berlin. The BKA is headquartered 571 km away in Wiesbaden, while the BKA's counterterrorism unit is located in bucolic Meckenheim, near Bonn, some 600 km from Berlin. The BfV, which gathers domestic intelligence and keeps tabs on suspected jihadists, is in Cologne. As a result, Schily held his crisis meeting by phone. "Just imagine if we have to react rapidly," he says. "That worked well enough after the attacks in Madrid...