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...employs only 22,000 workers as companies have moved jobs to cheaper locations overseas. Joining the exodus is Goldpfeil, one of Germany's iconic leather-goods brands, which announced last week that it is laying off 70 of its 200 artisans and moving production to subcontractors in the Czech Republic and China, where labor costs are only a fifth of those in Germany. Hans-Jörg Seeberger, ceo of EganaGoldpfeil Group, says Germany is no longer competitive - and blames Schröder. "Nobody can pay these wages anymore. The unions are too strong," he says. "There's a general...
...DIED. KAREL REISZ, 76, Czech-born film director who was a seminal figure in the renaissance of gritty British cinema in the 1960s; in London. Reisz is perhaps best known for directing Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), which launched British actor Albert Finney's career, and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), an acclaimed adaptation of the John Fowles novel...
...that Eastern and Central European countries were not doing enough to prevent terrorist groups from funneling men and money into the E.U. Jonathan Eyal, director of studies at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies in London, warns that the large numbers of Middle Eastern students in the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria "could be breeding grounds for terrorist activities." The arrest in London of a North African who had lived in Slovakia for a year did nothing to dispel these fears. Rabah Kadre and two other North African Muslims were arrested under the Terrorism Act, but their...
Surrounded by some of the tightest security ever seen in Prague, President Bush did his best this week to pump some adrenaline into the veins of European NATO leaders. They had gathered in the Czech capital to retrofit the mission and membership of the 53-year-old alliance formed to counter the Soviet threat. And Bush wanted them to focus, above all else, on the war on terrorism - and on the confrontation with Iraq. "For terrorists and terrorist states," said Bush, "every free nation is a potential target, including the free nations of Europe...
...Though Bush had time to meet with the Czech prime minister, he could not find room in his schedule to slip in a meeting with the leader of the largest European nation. At a private dinner Wednesday night, the two men could not have been sat farther apart. Bush who is expert at working a room, barely wandered into Schroeder's corner. The next day Bush merely said their interaction had been "cordial," one of the signature diplomatic characterizations used to keep from causing overt offense, but little more...