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...Berlin city government is still paying unemployment benefits to 10% of the population and welfare payments to another 8%. More recently, Berlin erred by extensively subsidizing the construction of office buildings and apartments. Politicians predicted the city would become a hub for German business when the government moved from Bonn in 1999, but the boom never materialized. The result: more than 1 million sq m of office space now sits empty and many of the 210,000 new subsidized apartments are unrented. Yet new buildings are still going up. One of the hardest hit areas is the public school system...
Among the posters of stylish models on the walls of Michaela Pütz's Bonn hairdressing salon hangs her Meisterbrief - the master craftsman's diploma that all German artisans must acquire before they set up their own businesses. The 40-year-old Pütz got hers 12 years ago, by attending six months of all-day classes on business management and crafts law at a cost of more than €12,000. Pütz's 21-year-old apprentice Susan, however, may not need to cram for a master's exam; the qualification, which dates back...
...were routed. "You can't build a country if the neighbors are trying to pull it apart," says James Dobbins, a former National Security Council staff member who was part of the American delegation to these talks. "We were able to reach some basic agreements, which led to the Bonn conference, where the rules for the Hamid Karzai government were established. And, I must say, the Iranians were the most helpful of the neighbors throughout the process...
...were routed. "You can't build a country if the neighbors are trying to pull it apart," says James Dobbins, a former National Security Council staff member who was part of the American delegation to these talks. "We were able to reach some basic agreements, which led to the Bonn conference, where the rules for the Hamid Karzai government were established. And, I must say, the Iranians were the most helpful of the neighbors throughout the process...
After going back to Germany in 1993, she returned to Bonn, where she was an honorary professor of Islamic studies...