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...figure out if the North was intent on building a nuclear arsenal or just trying to build leverage ahead of the talks. Killer's Wrist Slapped THE NETHERLANDS Supporters of slain politician Pim Fortuyn expressed outrage at the 18-year jail sentence imposed on his assassin, Volkert van der Graaf; prosecutors said they would appeal for a life term. An outspoken, right-wing gay man who wanted to restrict immigration, Fortuyn has in death become an icon of modern Dutch life. Van der Graaf, who admitted shooting Fortuyn last May, might only serve 12 years. Political Crime Wave RUSSIA Sergei...
...weeks to shoot because of weather problems and a malfunctioning Russian chopper. Goodbye Lenin! won the Blue Angel, the award for the best European film, at the 53rd Berlin Film Festival in February. And critics are wowed. "It is grippingly funny, fantastically grotesque and endlessly moving," said the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. How will it play outside Deutschland? The film has been sold to 29 different markets, including Italy, where it opens in May, and France and Britain, where it debuts in July. Becker says he is confident that foreign audiences will get the film's subtle humor...
...have to find the courage to make the changes in our country that are necessary to bring it back to the top of economic and social development in Europe." That's what a revved-up Gerhard Schröder told parliament last week in an impassioned address broadcast on national television. So does the German Chancellor finally get it? With unemployment now topping 4.7 million - 11.3% of the workforce - and growth last year an anemic 0.2%, Schröder's proposed reforms come none too soon...
...they're calling it "Enron on the Zaan," referring to the river that flows near the headquarters of Royal Ahold, the world's largest food retailer. And while that might be an exaggeration, Ahold has certainly scandalized the Netherlands' normally placid business life. The company's CEO, Cees van der Hoeven, and its finance chief, Michael Meurs, abruptly resigned last week following the discovery that a food-service subsidiary in the U.S. had overstated its operating earnings by at least $500 million. Ahold's stock immediately plunged by two-thirds, erasing €5 billion in value, although it picked...
...first six weeks of illness benefits - a responsibility that cost them €33 billion last year. In 1996, the then Christian Democratic government lowered benefits from 100% to 80% of a worker's salary, triggering outrage among unions. In 1999, the red-green coalition under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder reversed the decision, in order to fulfill an election-campaign promise. And European governments are also hampered by their policies toward long-term illness. At present, some 37 million Europeans are officially listed as disabled. Definitions vary, but in the U.K., a person who is still ill after receiving full...