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...question; it was deeply in debt, bleeding money and saddled with unpopular products. Of the 20 best-selling vehicles in the U.S. in 2008, only one, the Dodge Ram pickup, was made by Chrysler - compared with five for GM and four for Ford. A venerable European carmaker, Daimler, had already tried and failed to revive Chrysler. Its current owner, the private-equity fund Cerberus, had spent months of fruitless globetrotting in search of another car company willing to give...
...marathon negotiating session in the German Chancellery over the future of General Motors' European operations ended inconclusively on Wednesday night, rancor is growing elsewhere in Europe over the prospects of deep job losses...
...international recognition. Almost all resources for sports development went to élite sports schools that serve as talent pools to represent China in international sports events. Amateur sports, with little political significance, have been largely ignored. China established its first professional football league in 1994, following the example of European leagues. The system, however, never fully embraced the market values that made its European counterparts such a success. Although teams are sponsored by major companies like Samsung and Hyundai, they are still "owned" by their local football associations, which are government departments. (See pictures of China's sports schools...
...When it comes to available and affordable day care, Germany lags far behind its European neighbors: only about 18% of German children under age 3 attend state-run nursery schools, compared with a European average of 35%. To try to catch up, the German government has pledged to triple the number of day-care spaces to 750,000 by 2013, and Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen, herself a mother of seven, wants to give one in three children under the age of 3 the chance to attend nursery school...
...Moscow has reacted angrily to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's attempts in recent years to gain NATO membership and to a recent agreement in March under which the European Union would help modernize Ukraine's aging gas-transport system. "This agreement is Exhibit A in Moscow's collection [of complaints]," says Trenin. "It's evidence that Europe is concluding bilateral deals with Ukraine that undermine Russia's interests...