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...Last month, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder publicly expressed his opposition after media reports that 26,000 German butchers had lost their jobs when Polish subcontractors imported East Europeans to work for a fraction of German butchers' wages. The numbers may have been exaggerated, but the issue came up again last week, just before Schröder met political opponents at a "jobs summit" in Berlin. "We cannot allow service freedom if this leads to social dumping, and if it disregards the protection standards of employees," Schröder thundered...
When Gerhard Schröder was first elected German Chancellor in 1998, 3.8 million Germans were out of work. "If we do not considerably lower the unemployment rate, we do not deserve to be re-elected," Schröder said at the time. Seven years later, there are 5.2 million unemployed and Schröder is terrified that voters will take him literally. Last week, the Chancellor unveiled a plan aimed at jump-starting the economy, and met with the leaders of the conservative opposition in a much ballyhooed "jobs summit." But like so many attempted German reforms of recent...
...What will the E.U. sell, and what does China want to buy? In a recent interview with TIME, German Chancellor Gerhard Schr?der declared that his nation "has no intentions whatsoever of delivering weapons to China." Well, fine?although in the view of some analysts, it isn't really weapons that the Chinese want. But it isn't bratwurst, either. "The Chinese are not as likely to purchase off-the-shelf weapons systems as they are military-related technologies," says Evan Medeiros of the Rand Corporation in Washington. "Possible examples include submarine engines, fire control systems for air defense missile batteries...
...religious blessing of the marriage. Perhaps this is linked to the fact that there were some issues regarding the legality of the Prince’s marriage to Bowles in terms of civil marriage law applying to the Royal Family. These qualms, however, have been resolved by the Lord Chancellor who has declared that the marriage would in fact be in accordance with the Marriage...
...Bush listened as Chirac explained why lifting the arms embargo on China was a good idea; he listened as German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder argued that the U.S. must be more engaged in trying to convince Iran to drop its nuclear program; and he listened as Russian President Vladimir Putin batted back concerns about creeping autocracy in the Kremlin. Bush came to Europe, heard the views, but was he conquered by the arguments...