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...rate is just below 9%, unchanged from a year ago. But some of the panelists were heartened by what they see as genuine efforts by governments across the Continent to tackle some persistent problems, including a lack of labor mobility and unsustainable health-care and pension systems. In Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has introduced a slew of new measures designed to create jobs, including unpopular cutbacks in unemployment benefits. In France, the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin has triggered protests by changing the law to allow employees to work more than 35 hours a week and has begun revamping...
...European Union and refusenik central for Washington's aggressive plan to rein in terrorists and bring democracy to the Middle East - he meets all 25 leaders of the E.U. member states, and dines with the refusenik in chief, French President Jacques Chirac. He promenades along the Rhine with German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, then moves on to Bratislava to exchange views, and perhaps a few soulful glances, with Russian President Vladimir Putin...
...ready to train gendarmes. European soldiers are keeping the peace in Afghanistan, and even a Bush critic like Schröder knows that transatlantic cooperation is essential. "Most problems we are grappling with today can and will be solved only through real partnership with the U.S.," the German Chancellor told Time (see interview...
When President Bush meets German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in Mainz this week, it may not be a love fest. Washington was taken aback this month when a Schröder speech stated that NATO "is no longer the primary venue" for discussing transatlantic issues. TIME Berlin bureau chief Charles P. Wallace talked to Schröder about the uneasy alliance Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was just in Berlin, and there were many smiles. Relations between the U.S. and Germany seem to have improved. But there's still Iraq. Has anything really changed? You must not underestimate...
Challenging his speech in a question-and-answer session that followed, Denice D. Denton, chancellor of the University of California-Santa Cruz, said, “You know, a lot of us would disagree with your hypothesis and your premises...