Word: joschka
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...because it hinted that they may be able to influence the shield's final shape. The key to Europe's opposition is the lack of an ABM Treaty successor. If the ABM pact collapses, it must be replaced "only by better ones or more effective ones," German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said after Bush's speech. "We don't want there to be a new arms race." Playing their traditional roles, the British gave the strongest support to the Bush plan, and the French were the most opposed. "The Americans seem to think that if they just pound us over...
Jesse Helms and Joe Biden don't agree on much, but the Republican chairman and the ranking Democrat of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had similar messages for the German foreign minister this week. TIME has learned that in separate, private meetings in Washington with Joschka Fischer, Germany's top diplomat, both Helms and Biden warned that a major German oil company is negotiating to acquire huge oil deposits in Libya controlled by U.S. companies. Such a purchase, the senators cautioned, could harm U.S.-German relations by triggering sanctions under the Iran-Libya Sanctions...
...become the target of criticism herself. Fellow Greens in the European Parliament have called her a "mischief-maker" and a "pain in the neck" and even demanded her expulsion from the party. Despite such censure, Schröder remains undeterred. "In contrast to [German Foreign Minister Joschka] Fischer & Co., my political statements are firmly grounded in the Green manifesto," she contends...
...system of meat labeling into just two categories: organically grown food and products that meet minimum-quality levels. A poll taken after she had been in the job just one month showed her to be the third-most popular politician in Germany after Schröder and Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer...
...prosecutor's office said it will investigate allegations that Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer lied during the trial of convicted murderer Hans-Joachim Klein. Fischer had denied any contact with members of the violent Red Army Faction in the 1970s. But he allegedly later conceded that he could not rule out having had contact with Red Army Faction member Margrit Schiller. A parliamentary committee now has to decide whether Fischer's immunity will be lifted if the investigation leads to a formal charge against...