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...clean-cut, no-nonsense image is meant to make Merkel look more trustworthy than the slicker, suaver Schröder. "If we were to disappoint voters again the way Schröder did in 2002, people would ask themselves whether there is any party they can vote for," says Norbert Röttgen, a senior member of Merkel's campaign team. "Being honest about value-added tax is a strategy to regain the trust of the people." And Merkel is backing up the persona with policies. In addition to the vat increase, she has suggested weakening job-protection laws...
...policy” of North-South détente. Stemming from fears of a North Korean offensive or a massive refugee influx, “sunshine” has in practice meant appeasement. Its moral vacuity was laid bare this past August, when a German human rights worker, Dr. Norbert Vollertsen, was beaten by South Korean riot police while trying to launch a flock of hot air balloons carrying radios toward North Korea. A few days later, he led a peaceful anti-Kim Jong Il protest outside a press center in Taejon and was assaulted by North Korean reporters. President...
...sparked by Washington's concern that it needs better results from Islamabad at a time when a resurgent Taliban is using Pakistan as a base for strikes against U.S. and government forces in Afghanistan, threatening the stability of the U.S.-backed government in Kabul. Says Norbert Van Heyst, the outgoing commander of the NATO peacekeeping force in Kabul: "It is well known that beyond the border, the remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaeda have the chance to reorganize," including establishing training camps...
...ddeutschland (Society of Comrades Action Bureau, Southern Germany). "It's no coincidence that they are east Germans," says Hajo Funke, an expert on right-wing extremism at Berlin's Free University. "Ten years of experiencing the downside of German unification has created a racist youth subculture in the east." Norbert Klein is the owner of Friendship, a folksy restaurant in a working-class Munich neighborhood, where Wiese and his gang used to provide security for Direct Democracy, a radical right-wing coalition that held meetings in a back room. "Sometimes they'd get a hundred people and the speakers would...
...capital gains from the sales of shares and houses, boost gasoline taxes and offer fewer subsidies for new home construction (hence the architect joke). At the same time, unemployment benefits will be cut by j6 billion next year. "These policies will push a country already stagnating into recession," says Norbert Walter, chief economist of Deutsche Bank. Support for Schröder's Social Democratic Party is so weak that the upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, which is narrowly controlled by the opposition conservatives, voted against adopting the higher pension and health-insurance contributions as well as Schr...