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...biggest economy of the 12-member Euro-zone, Germany has had sluggish growth for at least five years, when the difficulties of integrating East Germany caught up with the Federal Republic. At present unemployment has reached nearly 12 percent of the workforce, or five million people. The CDU offered up a new candidate with a project of painful-but-healthy reform. Germany could either give the much-hyped Angela Merkel a mandate, or it would reconfirm its distrust of Anglo-Saxon-style liberalism and continue to adhere to the continental social-democratic model, permitting the incumbent chancellor Gerhard Schrder...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua, | Title: Quo Vadis, Germania? | 10/4/2005 | See Source »

...Despite record-high oil prices, most economists expect the world economy to grow by at least 4% this year. While that's down from last year's stellar 5% growth, it's more than double the euro zone's growth rate and is enabling companies such as Degussa and its German competitors to raise prices and offset more than j1 billion in extra raw-material costs. "High oil prices certainly still matter, but probably only half as much as they did 15 to 20 years ago," says Kenneth Rogoff, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roll Out the Barrel | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

...tell that to Holger Peters, 24, who was cheering the Chancellor on in Magdeburg. "Schr?der has achieved a lot for Germany," he says. "[CDU candidate] Angela Merkel and the others don't have any arguments for improving the situation." Peters even likes the "one-euro jobs" that Schr?der introduced last year as part of his controversial economic reforms. Intended to reintegrate long-term unemployed into the labor market, the jobs are structured so that employers pay only ?1 per hour, with the rest of the employee's income covered by unemployment benefits. Skeptics say the system encourages wage dumping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waving or Drowning? | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

...Prodi's euro screwed everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 7/31/2005 | See Source »

Disney's record with overseas theme parks, however, has been mixed. Tokyo Disneyland has been a smash, with 25 million visitors a year, but Euro Disney, based near Paris, has been a financial sinkhole. Earlier this year, Euro Disney finalized a $2 billion restructuring plan, which included new capital and loan concessions, to rescue the operation. Among the park's problems have been cultural faux pas that have turned off its European audience. When Euro Disney opened, for example, restaurants wouldn't serve wine, an affront even to the French soil it was built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disney's Great Leap into China | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

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