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...guest at Borchardt's could bump chairs with German Cabinet Ministers, the Rolling Stones, Leonardo DiCaprio or Cameron Diaz. Hillary Clinton dined here in July 2003 with Stefan Aust, editor of the newsmagazine Der Spiegel. "It's very central and the food is good," says Ursula von Langermann, head of the North American division at the German Foreign Ministry. "Whenever I have an international guest I take them here, and if Chancellor (Gerhard) Schr?der or Foreign Minister (Joschka) Fischer walk in, they're just floored...
...Moore's standing in Europe, where his blunt, truth-teller pose has won him myriad fans and hero status. People know his shortcomings - Le Monde calls Fahrenheit 9/11 "simplistic and often demagogic" - but cheer him on anyway. His latest book, Dude, Where's My Country? , has been on the German best-seller lists for more than 30 weeks. The idea that this renegade could galvanize U.S. opinion and boost the Democratic ticket holds a certain appeal for Europeans. Bush is so unpopular in Europe, says French legislator Pierre Lellouche, that "the Democrats could nominate a horse" and draw more support...
...University 25 years ago, she paid about one-third of her salary in taxes and social-security contributions. Today it's about half - far more than the 30% levied in neighboring Switzerland and the U.S., or the 27% rate in Japan. At the same time, beginning next year, the German government will no longer pay for some dental treatment or cover Moser's salary if she falls sick and is off work more than six weeks. That means she'll have to buy her own insurance - taking another slice out of her €1,600 monthly take-home...
...neutral - meaning that they won't cost the government anything. Not everyone agrees with the calculations, but his paper nonetheless stirred up a flurry of imitators. The opposition Christian Democrats as well as the Free Democrats have both since published their own tax-simplification plans. And most significantly, the German government's own Council of Economic Experts, nicknamed "the Five Wise Men," last November attacked German tax rules as "chaotic" and proposed a comprehensive fiscal overhaul that would cut the top rate for income tax to about 35%. To help pay for the cuts, the Wise Men proposed eliminating...
...Most Germans would probably welcome lower taxes. But Gerhard Schröder is preaching against it. For months now, the Chancellor has taken every opportunity to admonish his new E.U. neighbors to the east for their low tax rates. In Schröder's eyes, they are freeloaders, taking E.U. aid to build up their economies while stealing business from nations like his. "It is certainly unreasonable that we finance an unbridled tax competition among each other via the budget of the European Union," he said in Poland on May 26. Germany is expected to press its case again...