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Last may Angela Teusch walked into Duisburg's central train station, where she works as a cleaner, to find her co-workers slack-jawed with incredulity. They were staring at a fresh crop of campaign posters plastered on the station's walls. They portrayed her husband, Wolfgang, a steelworker and union shop steward at ThyssenKrupp Stahl, in his silver blast-furnace smock and hard hat. The real surprise was not the larger-than-life apparition of Herr Teusch and his frayed walrus moustache, but the poster's message: an endorsement from this lifelong Social Democrat of the opposition Christian Democratic...
...reforms by creating jobs. But the rhetoric may not be having the intended effect. The SPD continues to lose support in North Rhine-Westphalia. "It's not a critique of capitalism, but of the foundation of our economy and society, and a few excesses," Economics Minister Wolfgang Clement told Time...
...down as party leader in 2000. Now, the maverick politician is making waves again - and the turbulence is rocking Austria's coalition government. In 1999, Haider and his Freedom Party (FPO) took 27% of the vote in parliamentary elections and a place in government as junior partner to Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel's conservative Austrian People's Party. The European Union imposed a diplomatic boycott on Austria because of the FPO's extreme views; Haider has restrictive immigration policies and once called SS veterans "men of honor." Still, the coalition went ahead, and Austria gradually resumed normal relations with...
...WOLFGANG MAYRHUBER, Lufthansa CEO, on the pressure to consolidate within Europe's airline sector. The German carrier last week agreed to a takeover of struggling Swiss International Air Lines
...with so much at stake economically, blocking any change could backfire. Powerful lobbies like the German Federal Association of Industry, and Eurocommerce, which represents French and other European retailers, are pressing for liberalization. Even German Economics Minister Wolfgang Clement says he's in favor. "We need more competition in Europe, also in the service sector and that's a fact," Clement told the Tagesspiegel daily newspaper...