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...protracted negotiations over staffing the cabinet may yet prove easy in comparison to the talks currently under way over how to govern. The two sides agree in principle on the need for economic reform, but the Social Democrats are not expected to back the tougher measures advocated by the Christian Democrats, including, for example, weakening the bargaining power of labor unions...
...Commissioner for External Affairs, recounting a meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Il in his new book, Not Quite the Diplomat. Patten also dished on other world leaders, saying that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was "not a democrat" and calling French President Jacques Chirac "ignorantly hostile to reform...
...been turned down. But it would be very un-Bush to call for the 50(cent)-per-gal. gasoline tax that even some conservatives are supporting. In fact, it's far more likely that the next Grand New Policy Proposal will be another tax cut gussied up as tax "reform," perhaps even the abolition of the progressive income tax, replaced by a sales or flat tax. But that sort of thing would probably meet the same fate as Social Security reform. Congress has turned balky. The public may be skeptical of huge tax blowouts so long as more pressing problems...
...change." The biggest winner from the generational shift may be the fdp. A party that once relied on support from middle-aged voters increasingly appeals to the young. In the election, the fdp's youthful leadership stressed a simple campaign message that called for radical labor-market and tax reform. Even the Greens no longer stand in the way of market reforms, and can sound as fiscally responsible as Germany's postwar Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. "Our concern was never the redistribution of wealth, but rather justice between the generations," says Renate Künast, outgoing Minister for Agriculture...
...life. Give it a constitution, with all the usual high-tone preambles? Like, why bother? A certain ennui with the great causes of the past, of course, does not translate into the sort of big C, red-in-tooth-and-claw conservatism familiar in the U.S. Labor market reform may be the watchword of European governments from Greece to Scandinavia, but defense of the "European social model" remains a potent rallying cry. Bush is still a figure of hate and ridicule. But something is happening in Europe, in its economics, social policies and beliefs. In the absence of big ideas...