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...bewildering sight: after a year of slugging each other over Iraq, here come Europe's Big Three leaders, bloodied, bandaged, limping - and leaning on each other for support. Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder meet this week in Berlin, but despite the obligatory grins and displays of solidarity, the Three Amigos they are not. Not long ago Blair was warning publicly that Chirac was trying to drag Europe down a dead end of reflexive opposition to the U.S. in pursuit of a moldy Gaullist dream of French glory - and complaining privately that Chirac...
Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder are all using this week's summit to escape troubles at home - so why not Silvio Berlusconi? This was one VIP invite the Italian Prime Minister could have used, but the call never came. Instead, Berlusconi is at home dealing with escalating labor unrest, deepening consumer pessimism and fractious coalition partners. It seems that everyone - doctors, judges, steelworkers, bus drivers - is venting anger over Berlusconi's handling of the economy. Last week a one-day strike of some 150,000 doctors and other medical workers forced the cancellation of nearly...
...recent years, Zimbabweans could scarcely believe their luck last week when the police and courts allowed the Daily News, the country's only independent daily newspaper, to publish for the first time in four months. It was the same day South African President Thabo Mbeki told visiting German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder that Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF government would resume talks with the embattled opposition. "I am quite certain they will negotiate and will find an agreement. We will work with them," Mbeki said. But it was too good to be true. Harare quickly asked the courts...
Santa's Mixed Bag of Reforms When Gerhard Schröder's government reached agreement with the opposition Christian Democrats on a package of long-awaited economic reforms in mid-December, you might have expected German businesses to leap with Christmas joy. But despite lowered nonwage costs for employers, they're not all happy. Why? To help pay for a €7.8 billion tax cut, the compromise reduced federal subsidies to new home buyers (by 30%) and commuters who drive to work. "Business will go down, but we're not sure by how much," said Mario Wanke, who owns...
...there the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union (CSU), are seen as the lesser of evils. Why can't opposition parties get any traction? Call it the revenge of the Third Way. Back in the late 1990s, leaders like Blair and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder sold a pragmatic blend of fiscal realism and social justice, dubbed the Third Way. Outdated ideological divisions between right and left were dead, they declared, and a new kind of practical, effective politics would take their place. Now politicians from both sides of the old divide...