Word: luxembourger
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Even where things are great, they're not so good. The Netherlands in many respects is Europe's model economy, with an official unemployment rate of 4%--the lowest in the E.U. except for tiny Luxembourg, at 2.8%. Its boom helped the country cut joblessness more than 50% since the early 1990s. "We're working at capacity," says Joop Hartog, professor of economics at the University of Amsterdam. "We should be happy with that." An active labor policy bolsters the boom by offering tax credits for low earners, more child-care and after-school facilities to ease women's path...
...June 4: European Tall Convention; in Luxembourg. Members of European tall-persons' clubs discuss design standards and problems affecting the vertically endowed...
Another breakthrough that may help German women is a welter of decisions coming out of the European Union. A finding by the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg puts the onus on the employer to prove it did not discriminate when a pregnant woman is fired. That could strengthen the hand of women like Breloh--who has found a solution. She has set up her own agency with some of her former clients, and it is expanding. In the long run, if companies don't adapt to changing times, they may find that their former female managers have become their...
...been charged with shepherding since its New Year 1999 debut, is down 23 percent, and on Monday finance ministers from the 11 euro-zone nations arrived for their monthly meeting in a deepening panic. "It is quite evident that we have to address the euro situation," said Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Juncker. "We have to be more creative." But the finance ministers have already signed away all their powers to the ECB. And though speculators' hearts raced Friday after a sorrowful Duisenberg hinted at a euro-buying intervention to goose demand, such moves are usually stopgap measures at best. Long...
...chief will not be a German. "There's always the chance with a situation like this," notes Graff, "that if they can't decide on a candidate from a major country, they'll just give the post to some genius from from a small, obscure country such as Luxembourg...