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...DOOR IS NOT CLOSED YET, BUT THERE IS FINALly a move to narrow the entry. After months of seeking consensus, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's ruling coalition and the opposition Social Democrats have come to terms on a revision of Germany's liberal asylum laws. The parties insist that the fundamental right of asylum for the persecuted has been preserved. But the new provisions will allow the government to turn away individual asylum seekers who enter Germany from a nation that observes the Geneva Convention on refugees. Prospective claimants passing through Poland or Czechoslovakia, for example, on their way to Germany...
...they cobbled together a deal allowing Denmark to opt out of major unified policies if it ratifies the treaty in a second vote. Negotiators also seemed headed toward a compromise on seven-year spending projections aimed at closing gaps in living standards among E.C. member countries. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl insisted that "the train to Europe will not be ( stopped." Perhaps not. But it is surely not running on time...
EDITORIAL SERVICES: Christiana Walford (Director); Jennie Chien, Hanns Kohl, Benjamin Lightman, Beth Bencini Zarcone...
Compounding matters are economic troubles that are bound to heighten resentment and play into extremists' hands. The costs of reviving eastern Germany -- now running at more than $100 billion a year -- are not diminishing. And as Kohl finally acknowledged in a recent speech, Germany is entering the recession that has had much of the West and Japan in its grip. Most domestic political considerations argue against the Kohl government's using the opportunity of the police crackdown to confront German xenophobia. After Molln, though, every humane consideration demands...
EDITORIAL SERVICES: Christiana Walford (Director); Jennie Chien, Hanns Kohl, Benjamin Lightman, Beth Bencini Zarcone...