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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...
...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 so badly in Brandenburg, where...
...turned out to be just as bad. The new rules are scheduled to become permanent next year after a seven-year interim period in which both the old and new spellings were accepted. But two weeks ago two of Germany's biggest media companies - Spiegel-Verlag, owner of Der Spiegel, the country's largest newsmagazine, and Axel Springer Verlag, which owns Bild, Germany's biggest circulation newspaper - announced they were going back to the old rules. "Out of a feeling of responsibility for future generations, we recommend to others that they too put a halt to the state-ordered dyslexia...
...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...
DIED. TIZIANO TERZANI, 65, Italian-born journalist who reported from Asia for the German newsweekly Der Spiegel and various Italian publications; of cancer; in Florence, Italy. When a fortune-teller predicted he would die in 1993, he refused to fly for a year and wrote a book about it: A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East...