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There's a Gerhard Schröder joke making the rounds in Germany that perfectly captures the hapless Chancellor's predicament. Schröder tries to console an unemployed architect, telling him, "If I weren't Chancellor, I'd be building houses." The irate architect shoots back: "If you weren't Chancellor, I'd be building houses, too." Barely two months after he won re-election by a wafer-thin margin, Schröder's handling of the country's sputtering economy has made him the most unpopular leader in postwar Germany. People feel betrayed and lied to by Schr...
...subplots being watched by diplomats and journalists here in Prague was the interaction between George Bush and his German counterpart Gerhard Schroeder. It appears that Bush is still penalizing the German leader for resuscitating his election campaign by attacking Bush's hard-line position on Iraq and going back on promises he made to the American president in private about supporting the U.S. effort in some fashion...
...personal comforts. But quick stops have the benefit of leaving little time for the ceremonial duties of statecraft. His Prague agenda included sitting through 45 minutes of ballet by the National Dutch Theater, a cultural duty that didn't exactly thrill the president. "He'd rather dance with Gerhard Schroeder," quips one administration aide...
With Deutsche Telekom posting a record €24.5 billion loss for the first three-quarters of the year, just about the only thing going smoothly in Germany's economy right now is music sales. A savage single satirizing Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, The Tax Song, soared toward No. 1, selling over 300,000 copies since its release. The song is part of a wave of sharp criticism that the government has faced since announcing a series of tax increases and benefit cuts only weeks after the general election. Last week members of the Green Party, who are in coalition...
...distribution of cash, according to Israeli intelligence sources. - By Jamil Hamad, Aharon Klein and Matt Rees/Jerusalem. EUROPE More Fudge Down On The Farm The Franco-German alliance at the heart of the E.U. has some life in it yet. Meeting at an E.U. summit in Brussels, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and French President Jacques Chirac seemed to clear the way for the E.U.'s enlargement by limiting growth in spending on the Union's farm subsidies to 1% a year from 2007 to 2013. But the deal, which was cut with British Prime Minister Tony Blair...