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...have to find the courage to make the changes in our country that are necessary to bring it back to the top of economic and social development in Europe." That's what a revved-up Gerhard Schröder told parliament last week in an impassioned address broadcast on national television. So does the German Chancellor finally get it? With unemployment now topping 4.7 million - 11.3% of the workforce - and growth last year an anemic 0.2%, Schröder's proposed reforms come none too soon...
...first six weeks of illness benefits - a responsibility that cost them €33 billion last year. In 1996, the then Christian Democratic government lowered benefits from 100% to 80% of a worker's salary, triggering outrage among unions. In 1999, the red-green coalition under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder reversed the decision, in order to fulfill an election-campaign promise. And European governments are also hampered by their policies toward long-term illness. At present, some 37 million Europeans are officially listed as disabled. Definitions vary, but in the U.K., a person who is still ill after receiving full...
...supermarkets. You might think that officials would be happy that consumers are saving money in tough times. But the discounters' success is controversial in Germany: Renate Künast, the government Minister for Consumer Protection, last month vowed to "break their power." She was quickly chided by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. But her remarks came just as Germany's Justice Ministry was working on a revision of the unfair trading law, and others rallied to her defense, including agricultural groups and makers of brand-name products. It's a microcosm of a divisive and peculiarly European debate...
What's the most powerful political institution in Germany right now? It's not Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD), which was humiliated in state elections last week in Hesse and Lower Saxony (Schröder's home state). And it's not the rival Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which despite its gains hasn't yet come up with a coherent plan for economic reform. No, the organization with the most clout these days is an obscure legislative group called the Mediation Committee. Meeting in a soundproof Berlin conference room with no natural light...
GERMANY Trouble At The Polls Just five months after he secured his second term in office by just 6,000 votes, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder faces two key state elections this weekend. Polls suggest the opposition Christian Democrats (CDU) are likely to win in both the central state of Hesse, where they're already in power, and the northern state of Lower Saxony, a Social Democratic (SPD) stronghold for the past 13 years. Losing Lower Saxony would be especially humiliating for Schröder, who ran the state as premier from 1990 until 1998 when he became Chancellor...