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...EXTRADITED. HOLGER PFAHLS, 62, former German Deputy Defense Minister accused of corruption and tax evasion, to Augsburg, Germany; in Paris. Ending five years on the run, Pfahls was returned to Germany after French police captured him in Paris last July. He is accused of accepting $2.59 million in bribes from an arms dealer and funneling the money to the then-ruling Christian Democratic Party. Pfahls, who fought extradition unsuccessfully in the French courts, is believed to have lived in Hong Kong, Jakarta, Madrid and Montreal since the issue of an international arrest warrant...
...according to Hajo Funke, an expert on right-wing extremism at the Free University of Berlin. "The NPD conceals its ideology by presenting itself as socially engaged," Funke says. "But it is definitely a neo-Nazi party." The NPD is reviled in Germany. When the party's Saxony leader, Holger Apfel, appeared on a nationally televised panel show on the night of the election wearing a brown business suit, politicians from other parties walked off the set. The next day, protesters showed up in Dresden, the state capital, with signs reading nazis out. Even in the east, the party...
...next year. The Germans got a boost as economies in the U.S. and Asia began to grow again, and also from the run-up to E.U. enlargement, as exports to new members in Eastern Europe surged. "Germany remains an export machine that keeps running and running," says Holger Schmieding, an economist at Bank of America. "Despite the strong euro, even Germany is having a modest upswing...
...requirements." Not everyone is so enthusiastic. Some economists say the law does not go far enough and that allowing potential immigrants to be evaluated by civil servants is a bad move. "The law will not create an environment where we can attract the high potential candidates," said Holger Schäfer, an economist at the Institute of German Economy in Cologne. "It's bureaucratic and doesn't have clear rules." The Christian Democrats initially blocked the law because of fears that increased immigration would open the country to terrorists. Schröder finally won agreement by accepting an opposition-backed...
...scientist, "and there was skepticism over France and Germany's failure to abide by the rules." The absence of Sweden's 9 million people will hardly be noticed by the 300 million who currently use the euro. "It's now clear that the euro is not for everyone," says Holger Schmieding, Europe economist at Bank of America in London. And what's wrong with that? If Swedes see interest rates rise and investment and competitiveness fall as a result of staying out, then they can have another referendum and join later - or stay out and pay the price. Either...