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...German and an avid supporter of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, I was more than pleased (even a little proud) to see this great man on the cover of Time [June 6]. Schröder has been a stellar head of government from the day he took office. Always aware of Germany's past and its responsibility to the future, yet never losing sight of the social and economic challenges his country faces, Schröder has followed in the footsteps of the greatest statesman Germany ever had, Willy Brandt. Underestimated at home as well as abroad, Schr...
...last week in Washington and other Western capitals. The 56-page booklet charged the U.S. with trying to "blackmail" and "fleece" its NATO allies with a costly weapons system that would only enhance the risks of nuclear war. More than 70,000 copies have been printed in English, Spanish, German, Italian, French and Japanese...
...Euro has tumbled on currency markets in the past few weeks, you might think that voters in France and the Netherlands had rejected the six-year-old European currency rather than the planned new European Union constitution. Propelling the decline was a report--quickly denied--in the German newsmagazine Stern that at a meeting in late May, Finance Minister Hans Eichel and Axel Weber, head of the German central bank, had discussed the prospect of dissolving Europe's monetary union. Weber dismissed the report as "absurd," and most market watchers and economists agreed. "The talk will continue for a week...
...only weapon. Earlier this year, the German electronics manufacturer Siemens was officially told it couldn't acquire a majority stake in a Russian company that manufactures some defense-related equipment. Siemens had offered $200 million to $300 million for a 73% stake in the firm, Power Machines, but the deal was blocked by Russia's antitrust authority, reportedly for national-security reasons. The firm's owners said this month that they are negotiating to sell a majority stake to the Russian government instead. "Success automatically makes you a target," says Mikhail Kozhokin, vice president of KROS, a major Russian consulting...
...German and an avid supporter of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder [June 6]. Schröder has been a stellar head of government from the day he took office. Always aware of Germany's past and its responsibility to the future yet never losing sight of the social and economic challenges his country faces, Schröder has followed in the footsteps of the greatest statesman Germany ever had, Willy Brandt. In my view, he is a pretty difficult act to follow...