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...Germany is further along the reform path on which France is now gingerly embarking. After a scorching debate that enlivened leftist opposition to the Social Democratic?Green coalition of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, the government launched its reform in January. Its controversial centerpiece: a €10 Praxisgebühr, or quarterly fee every patient must pay on the first doctor's visit during that three-month period. The fee was widely attacked by doctors and patients alike as awkward and onerous. But along with costlier fees for unreferred visits to specialists, a larger patient share of drug costs...
...streets; in Germany, it's planned cutbacks in unemployment benefits. In cities such as Leipzig and Magdeburg in the eastern part of the country last week, around 30,000 took part in protest marches against the proposed cuts. Eastern Germany, with its 18.5% unemployment rate, is especially incensed about Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's plan to replace income-indexed benefits with flat-rate payments for the long-term unemployed. Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD) is bracing for a major setback when state elections are held next month in Brandenburg, Saxony and Saarland. The SPD is faring...
...clear rules that are not contradictory. If you reverse the spelling reform now, it will bring chaos across the country." According to Ernst Klett, Germany's biggest publisher of textbooks and dictionaries, going back would cost cash-strapped local governments j250 million for new books with the old spellings. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder caused a predictable outcry when he said he sees no reason to drop the reforms. "The spelling reform is a good example of the German disease," says Guido Westerwelle, leader of the Free Democratic Party. "Instead of taking care of domestic security by hiring more policemen...
...seems as if German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has spent the entire summer publicly apologizing for World War II. He was the first German leader to participate in D-day ceremonies on the 60th anniversary of the Allied invasion in June. Last week, he became the first German Chancellor to honor the estimated 200,000 Poles killed by German troops during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. And this week, the Chancellor makes another war-related pilgrimage, this time to Romania. Sixty years ago, his father, Fritz, a lance corporal in the Wehrmacht, was killed and buried with eight other German...
CEDRIC SCHRAPPE, a 4-year-old German, protesting Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's plans to slash unemployment benefits for families whose children have more than €750 in piggy-bank savings