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That view changed dramatically last week when Edmund Stoiber, the premier of Bavaria and the CSU's chairman, announced he was a candidate to oppose Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in national elections this September. Within five days, Stoiber's main opponent for the job, CDU chairwoman Angela Merkel, announced she was dropping out of the race, leaving it to Stoiber to carry the conservative banner...
...will be an interesting election. Only a year ago, Schröder looked unbeatable. His government had cut taxes without chopping social programs, proposed reforms for state pensions and come up with a plan to balance the budget. Still, the global economic slump hit Germany, with unemployment inching up to the important benchmark of 4 million. Schroder made an election pledge four years ago to get jobless numbers down to 3.5 million by the time of the election on Sept. 22. "The economy is the big issue," says Peter Lösche, a professor of political science at the University...
Intelligence sharing, though more focused than ever in the face of a common recognized foe, remains an entirely national prerogative. But why rub it in? More than once since Sept. 11, European leaders have seemed eager to do just that. Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schröder and Tony Blair held a minisummit to discuss Afghanistan last month in Ghent, just before a full E.U. summit, but pointedly excluded other member states...
Some have gone even further. Before the meeting of the European Council in Ghent, Britain?s Tony Blair, Germany?s Gerhard Schröder and France?s Jacques Chirac took advantage of the summit?s medieval venue, St. Peter?s Abbey, to hold a brief gathering of their own. This side meeting was held at Chirac?s initiative, and, not incidentally, it was consistent with his efforts to appear vigorous and statesmanlike in the run-up to next year?s French presidential elections. The "big three" were getting together as E.U. countries that have promised - and in the case...
...Forget the stereotype of a bread-winning father, stay-at-home mother and 2.4 children in a one-family dwelling, garage attached. Divorce is one factor contributing to the reconfiguring of the traditional family structure. It's on the rise, and if the four-times-married German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is any kind of barometer, divorce doesn't carry the social stigma it once did. Add to that the exploding number of single mothers, some of whom have never married and have no plans to; couples who decide to have smaller families than their parents...