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When French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, hoping to refurbish their creaking "axis," pledged to join forces against the American-led war effort, the other Europeans were not amused. Their counterthrust came in the form of two open letters, splashed across the front pages of Europe's newspapers, in which 18 countries agreed to stand together against Saddam--and at the side of the United States. It didn't help when Chirac, cane in hand, blasted the East Europeans among them for "misbehaving." For now, say goodbye to Europe's speaking "with one voice." And score that...
...employers pay the first six weeks of illness benefits - a responsibility that cost them €33 billion last year. In 1996, the then Christian Democratic government lowered benefits from 100% to 80% of a worker's salary, triggering outrage among unions. In 1999, the red-green coalition under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder reversed the decision, in order to fulfill an election-campaign promise. And European governments are also hampered by their policies toward long-term illness. At present, some 37 million Europeans are officially listed as disabled. Definitions vary, but in the U.K., a person who is still...
...1930s, several countries today appear perfectly willing to let the world’s leading international organization be mocked and disobeyed. For the French government, securing lucrative oil contracts is apparently more important than removing the threat posed by Saddam’s weapons of mass murder. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, meanwhile, rode to victory in September’s national election on an anti-war platform, and he has insisted that he will not support military action to topple the Iraqi regime. Those hoping France and Germany would be swayed by Secretary of State Colin Powell?...
Supporters of regime change in Iraq may be tempted to call the behavior of French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder embarrassing—but then, this is the U.N., where the bar for embarrassment is seemingly raised higher every day. Indeed, with Libya assuming the chairmanship of its Human Rights Commission, the U.N. has already slid beyond parody. That commission also includes such freedom-loving stalwarts as Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Syria, China, Vietnam, Sudan and Zimbabwe. How does one caricature an organization that allows some of the world’s most brutal, repressive dictatorships to lecture...
What's the most powerful political institution in Germany right now? It's not Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD), which was humiliated in state elections last week in Hesse and Lower Saxony (Schröder's home state). And it's not the rival Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which despite its gains hasn't yet come up with a coherent plan for economic reform. No, the organization with the most clout these days is an obscure legislative group called the Mediation Committee. Meeting in a soundproof Berlin conference room with no natural light...