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Most Germans would probably welcome lower taxes. But Gerhard Schröder is preaching against it. For months now, the Chancellor has taken every opportunity to admonish his new E.U. neighbors to the east for their low tax rates. In Schröder's eyes, they are freeloaders, taking E.U. aid to build up their economies while stealing business from nations like his. "It is certainly unreasonable that we finance an unbridled tax competition among each other via the budget of the European Union," he said in Poland on May 26. Germany is expected to press its case again...
...victory PM Jean-Pierre Raffarin's reform program could be a casualty of the ruling conservatives' loss Germany The Christian Democrats' big win bodes well for three state elections in September The ruling Social Democrats' worst-ever loss in a national vote ratchets up the pressure on Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's government Ireland Voters elected Sinn Fein's first M.E.P.; the opposition Fine Gael had its best-ever result Premier Bertie Ahern's Fianna Fáil tumbled to its worst showing in 80 years, marring the government's six-month term as E.U. President Italy Small parties...
...seven years from holding jobs in Western Europe. Fearing the effect of cheap labor on already high unemployment - and damage to Germany's Christian heritage - politicians from the conservative opposition claimed that Germany was "not a country of immigration." So it comes as a pleasant surprise that Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is suddenly rethinking that view. Last week he agreed on groundbreaking new legislation to allow large numbers of new workers to move in. "We're going to have a modern immigration law," Schröder said. It's about time. Germany, like most other European countries, is sitting...
...conditions" - and in Roig's opinion, that means under the care of a man and a woman. Germany and Norway have registered partnership laws that give some recognition to same-sex couples, but activists in both countries say they don't expect them to be expanded anytime soon. Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrat-Green government got a law on partnerships through in 2001, but a bill that would have treated same-sex partners the same as married couples on taxes, pensions and adoption stalled in the conservative-dominated Bundesrat. Even domestic partnerships remain off the agenda in Italy...
Building the Lip Service Sector Do France and Germany really want to build world-class companies? Last week Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder swore they did, pledging to team up to develop "the industrial champions that Europe needs," in the words of the French President. A top-level delegation of French ministers will head to Berlin in late May to trade ideas with their German counterparts. But watch what they do, not what they say: officials on both sides say the move is largely an attempt to patch up bad feelings in Germany over recent French market interventions...