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...seven years from holding jobs in Western Europe. Fearing the effect of cheap labor on already high unemployment - and damage to Germany's Christian heritage - politicians from the conservative opposition claimed that Germany was "not a country of immigration." So it comes as a pleasant surprise that Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is suddenly rethinking that view. Last week he agreed on groundbreaking new legislation to allow large numbers of new workers to move in. "We're going to have a modern immigration law," Schröder said. It's about time. Germany, like most other European countries, is sitting...
...best conditions" - and in Roig's opinion, that means under the care of a man and a woman. Germany and Norway have registered partnership laws that give some recognition to same-sex couples, but activists in both countries say they don't expect them to be expanded anytime soon. Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrat-Green government got a law on partnerships through in 2001, but a bill that would have treated same-sex partners the same as married couples on taxes, pensions and adoption stalled in the conservative-dominated Bundesrat. Even domestic partnerships remain off the agenda...
...when the European Union will emerge as a new power bloc of 25 nation-states with a total population significantly greater than that of the U.S., such an omission is historic. We Europeans too often tire of reading about France's Jacques Chirac, Britain's Tony Blair, Germany's Gerhard Schr?der and Italy's Silvio Berlusconi, but by your own selection criteria?possession of political power, moral influence and so forth?I would have expected at least one European leader to have made the list. Karl H. Pagac Villeneuve-Loubet, France...
Building the Lip Service Sector Do France and Germany really want to build world-class companies? Last week Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder swore they did, pledging to team up to develop "the industrial champions that Europe needs," in the words of the French President. A top-level delegation of French ministers will head to Berlin in late May to trade ideas with their German counterparts. But watch what they do, not what they say: officials on both sides say the move is largely an attempt to patch up bad feelings in Germany over recent French market interventions...
...dynamism." Erdogan's desire to join the E.U. is rooted in economics - even the start of negotiations could sharply boost investment - as well as the need to cement democratic institutions in Turkey, where his pro-Islamic ruling party is at odds with the military and security establishment. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder reaffirmed his own commitment to Turkey's European dream. "You can rely on Germany's willingness to keep its word," he told Erdogan in Cologne. Erdogan can't, however, rely on French President Jacques Chirac, who acknowledged last week that Turkey had a "European vocation," but added...