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...have to forgive Gerhard Schroeder for feeling a little like Galileo on yet another vain mission to convince the clergy that the sun is the center of our universe. The German chancellor met President George W. Bush Thursday to discuss, among other things, global warming - a topic on which the U.S. leader is seen in the wider world as something of a flat-earther. And he reported after the meeting that they'd held a candid discussion but failed to agree over President Bush's decision to back out of the Kyoto Accord on climate change endorsed last year...
...fact remains there is no way to curb greenhouse gas output without changing current patterns of corporate and even individual behavior. And no U.S. leader has yet been willing to confront the American people with that uncomfortable reality. Which means that Chancellor Schroeder may have been wasting his breath. President Bush, under pressure from the energy industry, recently tore up his own campaign promise to cut carbon-dioxide outputs from power stations. And if he's prepared to treat his own environment secretary like Cinderella, he was always going to give short shrift to the pleas of a German "Third...
...Helping Schröder in Baden-Württemberg is the long shadow cast by a political funding scandal involving Helmut Kohl. The former Chancellor and cdu leader admitted receiving cash contributions that weren't reported as required by law, though he escaped criminal charges last month by agreeing to pay a $141,000 fine. Still, the scandal has left the Christian Democratic leadership in crisis. Angela Merkel, the new cdu leader chosen last year, has been trading insults with two rivals who covet her job: Friedrich Merz, the cdu's leader in par-liament, and Edmund Stoiber, head...
...biggest economic danger, perhaps, is complacency - and there seems to be plenty of that to go around. Buoyed by the recent good news, Britain's Labour government plans to increase its spending. In Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has come under fire from business groups angry at the government's moves to expand labor rights, which they say will cut into already weakening economic growth. The government is standing by a forecast of at least 2.6% growth this year, but the Federation of German Banks dropped its expectation down to 2.2%. Germany is more vulnerable to the U.S. downturn...
...apparently closed to them, U.S. environmentalists are now pinning their hopes that European heads of state will be able to educate Bush about the scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, and that the problem may reach catastrophic levels by the end of the century. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who is visiting Washington this week, has put climate change in the second spot on his agenda for discussions with Bush, following the conflict in Macedonia...