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...from leaving the breweries but also stopped the raw ingredients and packaging materials from getting in. At one point, workers at the Jupille plant, near Liège, even took their managers hostage for 11 hours, demanding to speak with the company's top officials, before finally letting them go the following morning. A few days later, the picketers tried a different approach, handing out free beer to passersby. (See pictures of Anheuser-Busch and St. Louis...
...causing sales of beer to decline sharply. In beer-loving Belgium, the problem has been particularly acute: beer sales plummeted 20% from 2000 to 2008. One reason for this, according to the market-research firm Euromonitor International, is that the Belgian population is aging and thus less likely to go out to bars to drink. And the trend shows little sign of reversing. Fifty years ago, the average Belgian drank 118 liters of beer a year. Today, the figure is 86 liters...
...unions have threatened a full strike if the ruling is enforced. In the end, there is probably little the unions can do to prevent the job cuts, says Theo Vervloet, chairman of the Belgian Brewers trade association. "AB InBev is thinking on a bigger scale and wants to go for volume rather than quality," he says. In other words, AB InBev is focusing on a grand strategy, which means that what happens in Belgium now is small beer...
...read the full transcript and listen to a podcast of Joe Klein's interview with the President, go to time.com/obama_interview
...Just days into the spring Diet session, Ozawa, probably the DPJ's most powerful politician, casts a shadow not only over Diet deliberations but also the competency of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's administration. While scandals come and go in Japan, some observers wonder if the young government that swept the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) out of more than five decades of single-party rule is resilient enough to ride this storm, with the Upper House elections slated for July. (See pictures of Japan's relationship with the world...