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...Benes Decrees should no longer exist," Haider said. Erika Steinbach, head of Germany's Association of Displaced Persons, agrees: "Who in the year 2002 cannot distance himself from a political event that contradicts all norms of international law and questions the E.U. suitability of his country? Chancellor Schröder is urgently called upon to link the question of Czech E.U. entry to the abandonment of the Benes Decrees...
...repeal would open the floodgates to demands for restitution. "Why should we single out the Benes Decrees?" Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kavan told Time. "They belong to the past and should stay in the past. Many current members of the E.U. had similar laws." German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder admitted that "in this heated debate, a rational discussion of such questions is much more difficult," but also doubted there would be any long-term damage to German-Czech relations...
...Silvio Berlusconi's governing coalition, was characterizing the E.U. as a "Stalinist European super state, the Soviet Union of the West." Meanwhile in Germany, the sputtering economic engine of Europe, the exigencies of an election campaign are re-intensifying the lively tradition of blaming Brussels. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, having quashed a European Commission warning letter over his government's mounting deficit, appears ready to wage his domestic campaign against Brussels - something his opposition rival Edmund Stoiber has been doing for years...
...goodies like the next soccer World Cup. He is in hock to the banks for about ?6 billion ($5.2 billion), and lots of loans are coming due these days. When Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-American ruler of a globe-spanning media empire, offered himself as a savior, Schröder sent out the signal: "No foreigners!" The word was spread that the Chancellor preferred a "national solution" - as he did in the case of John Malone, an American whose Liberty Media wanted to invest big time in the German cable industry but was frozen out on the argument that Liberty...
...this is also a sad tale for Europe. Facing more than 4 million unemployed, the Schröder government has evidently concluded that it can make electoral hay by keeping change and competition at bay. The Chancellor may also calculate that telling Brussels where to get off will garner him votes in September as well. It may or may not. Meanwhile, who is going to take care of Europe? For decades, Germany was the engine of integration. If that engine begins to stutter, neither France nor Britain is going to provide the push. In fact, they must be quite happy...