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...Union of Concerned Scientists called "the most anti-environmental act by an American President in modern history." By the time they arrive, the Bush Administration will at least have had plenty of practice -if scant success -in explaining its position. Last week German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who governs in a coalition with the environmentalist Greens, was there to air his differences on global warming and other issues in his first meeting with Bush. And Dutch Environment Minister Jan Pronk, who as chairman of the Kyoto process presided over the unsuccessful Hague conference last year, arrived last week...
Ever since June 1999, when Ilka Schröder was elected to the European Parliament for Germany's environmentalist Greens, the junior partner in Berlin's governing center-left coalition, the pugnacious economics student has been the terror of the Brussels assembly with her provocative political demands and vitriolic verbal attacks...
...Schröder's credo is "politics should be all about putting the finger on the sore spot," even if that means antagonizing your friends. Since the youngster from Berlin, like many of her party's rank and file, is an uncompromising conservationist and anti-militarist, the first target of her criticism has not been the political opposition but the top brass of her own party, whom she feels have betrayed the ideals of the past. "Green politics no longer has anything in common with the original platform," she complains...
...Despite the local nature of the campaign, it's likely that national issues, such as the funding scandal, tax reform and the government's handling of the crisis over bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease, will most influence voters. If Schröder has played his hand wisely, the upper house of parliament may go back to being politely cooperative...
...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...