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...German states, the upper house of parliament normally can be counted on to approve new legislation without raising a fuss. All that changed in 1999, however, when the opposition Christian Democrats won a string of state elections, giving them a "blocking minority" in the Bundesrat. Suddenly Chancellor Gerhard Schröder discovered that in order to get laws like his tax reform package through the upper house, he had to wheel and deal or risk certain defeat...
...Funke, was a farmer who resigned amid the previous food crisis, the one over bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease. Künast, 45, is a lawyer with no experience in agriculture. In appointing her to head a new ministry that combines consumer protection, food and farming, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder declared, "The German farming association has to accept that its influence is going to be shaved away." Künast made the same point to parliament, saying the bse crisis "marks the end of old-fashioned agriculture." Instead, she wants to increase organic farming...
...calls for a greener and more rational cap. Renate Kunast, Germany's new Agriculture Minister, advocates dropping price supports and revamping subsidies to encourage small-scale organic farming, which emphasizes eco-friendly land stewardship, animal welfare and use of natural produce. Other politicians, ranging from Blair to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, have called for a similar reorientation of agriculture policies...
...about relationships. "I love both those guys," chortled German Chancellor Gerhard Schr?der as his Minister of Labor, Walter Riester, exchanged barbs with his Minister of Economics, Werner Müller, over a core component of Germany's industrial culture: the right of workers to help run the companies they work...
...made organic, however, may emerge as the real winner in the current beef shakedown. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has declared his intention to reorient agricultural policy "in the interest of the consumer" by shifting aid from industrial "agrofactories" to organic farms. Agriculture Minister Renate Künast is aiming to increase the proportion of organically farmed land from 2.6% to 20% within the next 10 years. Even without more government aid, Europe's organic farmers are enjoying flush times. "Every time there's another bse scare, our customers increase," says Richard Counsell, an organic farmer in southwest England...