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  [03 Mar 1999]: PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF GERMANY
Germany not only had an interest in continuing to strengthen the United Nations, it also believed that there was no alternative to the Organization as a platform for peace, development and security in the world, Germany's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Joschka Fischer, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference today.
Germany believed that the United Nations was most important when it came to balancing the different interests of very different nations, and it intended to strengthen the Organization as best it could.
Asked whether the image of Germany would suffer as a consequence of the recent failure to pass a law on dual citizenship, he said that what his Government had sought was not a dual citizenship law but a new citizenship law.
www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/1999/19990303.germany.pcf.html   (2510 words)

  
 Federal Labour Courts - Germany - Equal Employment Opportunities
Labour law comes under the jurisdiction of labour courts, the highest of which is the Federal Labour Court, (Article 95 (1) Chapter 9 Basic Law).
The Federal Labour Courts are administered by the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in conjunction with the Minister of Justice.
Labour Courts are increasingly developing a distinction between direct discrimination, where the sex of the employee is taken as the decisive criterion for unequal treatment, and indirect discrimination, whereby the basis for unequal treatment is founded on an ostensibly neutral factor but where detrimental effects are disproportionately felt by one sex.
www.ilo.org /public/english/employment/gems/eeo/law/germany/ct_flc.htm   (270 words)

  
 Slovenia Business Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The free flow of labour, employment and the labour market, the social dialogue, as well as pension and labour legislation were on top of Riester's agenda as he met his Slovenian counterpart Vlado Dimovski.
As the Slovenian labour minister said, the topics discussed are a great challenge for both Slovenia and Germany, and they are of great importance for Slovenia particularly in the light of EU accession.
Minister Riester said that the labour market in Slovenia was developing in a positive way and that the state had been very active in this field.
www.gzs.si /SBW/head.asp?idc=9709   (385 words)

  
 Labour Church
The Labour Church was founded by John Trevor, a former Unitarian minister.
For example, the Bradford Labour Church was formed in 1892 after a Nonconformist minister supported the Liberal Party candidate against the socialist, Ben Tillett, in the 1892 General Election.
John Trevor and his followers were Christian Socialists who believed that the labour movement could be the driving force in obtaining "the Kingdom of God on earth".
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RElabour.htm   (521 words)

  
 Labour Watch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Labour is understood to have banned all current affairs and documentary crews from the event.
Labour seem increasingly jittery over the seat, which ought to be safe, but it would appear that the Lib Dems are making up ground and could well come in second ahead of the SNP.
Labour in trouble over election lamppost posters (legal in Scotland but not in most of the rest of the country) - and yet another example of anti-social behaviour from Labour activists by "flash-mobbing" a Lib Dem walkabout by Charles Kennedy in the constituency.
labour-watch.blogspot.com   (4447 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | German minister says sorry for genocide in Namibia
Germany apologised for the first time yesterday for a colonial-era genocide which killed 65,000 Herero people in what is now Namibia.
When the order was lifted at the end of the year, prisoners were herded into camps and allocated as slave labour to German businesses, where many died of overwork and malnutrition.Some two-thirds of the Herero were killed.
But Germany dismissed the claim, saying international rules on the protection of combatants and civilians were not in existence at the time of that conflict.
www.guardian.co.uk /germany/article/0,2763,1283864,00.html   (413 words)

  
 Essay Town - College Term Papers, Essays, Research Papers for Reference
Germany diplomacy was implemented by a combination of traditional and revolutionary methods, which achieved remarkable success, despite a major setback in Austria.
He talks of historians in both parts of Germany after the war and how they analyzed the question, though he finds that their efforts in both cases were muted by circumstances and by the way the populace at large ignored their efforts.
Bismarck was the premier of Prussia from 1862 to 1890 and chancellor of Germany from 1871 to 1890.
www.ra-essaytown.com /rae-topics/germany.html   (9224 words)

  
 Online edition of Daily News - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Minister of Employment and Labour and the Chief Government Whip, Mahinda Samarasinghe paid an official visit to Norway from April 12th to 17th, accompanied by a team of officials of the Ministry on an invitation extended to him by that country who is assisting and funding to formulate a National Employment Policy for Sri Lanka.
The Minister and his entourage participated in a number of seminars and workshops organized by state and other institutions of Norway during their six-day visit.
The minister and his officials will visit The Netherlands between April 17th and 19th, Germany between 10th and 22nd, Italy on the 23rd, the UK on 24th and 25th and the UAE on 26th and 27th.
www.dailynews.lk /2002/04/20/new18.html   (308 words)

  
 Labour Party
The election of the Labour Government coincided with an economic depression and MacDonald was faced with the problem of growing unemployment.
The Labour Party is the expression of the revolt of men and women against a materialist system of society which condemns to a narrow and stinted life the majority of our citizens and gives rewards to the greedy and acquisitive.
The significant politics of MacDonald's first term as Prime Minister were that he cut his hair, trimmed his moustache, assumed a tail-coat and was even seen in a tall shiny hat, symbol for a generation past of the hated capitalist.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Plabour.htm   (8597 words)

  
 Germany news on David T. Nicholson's Wednesday-Night.com
Germany seems likely to be governed by a coalition of the parties of the chancellor and his conservative challenger.
Germany's labour minister angers voters and the Catholic Church by criticising the number of public holidays taken by Germans.
Germany plans to stockpile enough smallpox vaccine by the end of the year to protect its entire population of 82 million people from a terrorist attack with the virus.
www.wednesday-night.com /newsgermany.asp   (2621 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Germany gets 'super minister'
The 62-year-old is being charged with implementing labour reforms recommended before Mr Schroeder's Social Democrat-Green coalition government was narrowly returned to power last month.
The new minister replaces Labour Minister Walter Riester and Economy Minister Werner Mueller.
Germany's economy, Europe's biggest, is sluggish, and the country has an unemployment rate of 10% - four million people out of work.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/2307765.stm   (418 words)

  
 Germany invites foreign infotech specialists despite xenophobia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
While Germany is gradually waking up to the fact its economy desperately needs immigrants to support an increasingly greying population, the country is also battling a rising tide of racism and right-wing violence.
Labour Minister Walter Riester handed over the first US-style Green Card to Harianto Wijaya, a 25-year-old Indonesian who has just graduated in with top grades from the technology university in the western German town of Aachen.
Germany's federal statistics office said last week that even if 200,000 more people come to Germany than leave each year until 2050, the population would still drop by 12 million.
www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/20000801/efe01010.html   (473 words)

  
 CER | Germany: Brain drain from East to West Germany
Moreover, it could poison the atmosphere between Germany and Poland, and this co-operation is crucial for the enlargement process.
The "foreigners" in mind are effectively German entrepreneurs and private persons seeking to buy land, either to establish companies or to spend the last years of their lives in the formerly German territories where they were born.
The man who today is respected as the principled representative of united Germany and a credible champion of a "moral diplomacy" was a so-called Sponti in the 1970s: a militant member of the radical left-wing Ausserparlamentarische Opposition (Opposition outside of parliament).
www.ce-review.org /01/1/germanynews1.html   (995 words)

  
 Germany: Falun Gong Practitioners Show the German Government the Truth Behind the Jiang Regime's Lies and ask for ...
When Lin Wenrong returned home from her studies in Germany to visit her family in China, and was arrested because she practises Falun Gong.
Lin Wenrong was supposed to come back Germany on 17 February to continue her studies.
Germany: Letter from the Chairman of Duisburg City Committee to the Mayor of Wuhan City, Calling for the Release of Lin Wenrong
www.clearharmony.net /articles/200303/10991.html   (462 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Germans have 'too much time off'
Germany's economics and labour minister has provoked anger by arguing that Germans take too many holidays.
Mr Clement made his comments on one of many of Germany's traditional religious festivals, the feast of Corpus Christi, which is widely celebrated in Catholic areas.
Germany had the slowest growth in Europe last year, at a mere 0.2%, and zero growth in the October-to-December period.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/3003552.stm   (423 words)

  
 The Social Democrats (from Germany) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
In the middle ground between the dominant Labour Party and the Conservative Party, the Liberal Democrats occupy a centre-left, libertarian position.
One of the great powers of the industrial world, Germany rose from a collection of small states, principalities, and dukedoms to become a unified empire in 1871.
The German empire was strategically located between France and Russia, and it clashed with both nations as it attempted to expand its borders.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-201544?tocId=201544   (924 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Germany moves to harmonise EU pay
Germany has drafted a scheme for a harmonised European wages policy to include in the new European employment pact, due to be agreed at the EU summit in Cologne in June.
Germany's labour minister, Walter Riester, said that he did not want 'wage norms', since the EU was still a long way from being able to formulate them, but rather 'to improve the interaction' between monetary, tax and wage policies in Europe.
Germany also proposes to bring the new European Central Bank in to help define the new employment pact, on the grounds that the ECB sets monetary policy with an eye to wage movements.
www.guardian.co.uk /euro/story/0,11306,607121,00.html   (516 words)

  
 [A-List] Germany: Die Neue Mitte   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
It is true that Germany's labour market has a worse reputation in some = ways than it deserves.
Its labour force participation rate for workers = aged 15-64 is 71 per cent, above the eurozone average of 68.6 per cent.
The labour office pays unemployment benefits and is = funded by contributions from employers and workers amounting to 6.5 per = cent of gross wages.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2002-March/018273.html   (1466 words)

  
 CNN.com - NATO: 'Moral obligation' to U.S. - Dec. 26, 2002
But among NATO members there are still widely differing views on a possible war in Iraq, with Germany having ruled out military participation and Turkey, the alliance's only Muslim member, yet to commit itself.
This month it was reported that Germany has been asked to provide troops to guard U.S. bases in the event of a conflict to free up U.S. forces.
Deputy Prime Minister Abdullatif Sener told Reuters the influential National Security Council, where generals meet with elected leaders, was expected to discuss the subject later in the week.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/12/26/sproject.irq.nato   (610 words)

  
 List of German labour ministers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ministers of Labour and Social Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-2002
In 2002, the ministry was divided between the ministries of Economics and Labour and Health and Social Security.
This page was last modified 10:08, 28 July 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labour_Minister_of_Germany   (67 words)

  
 Online edition of Daily News - News
This was disclosed by Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar at a media briefing held at the Sri Lanka Institute of International Relations in Colombo after he met with the visiting German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer.
In response to a question raised by a German journalist, Minister Kadirgamar said that Sri Lanka would extend her support to Germany in her endeavour to secure a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer is in Sri Lanka on a ten day tour of Asia to canvass support for his country's bid to secure a permanent seat in the United Nation's Security Council.
www.dailynews.lk /2004/07/19/new02.html   (350 words)

  
 Federal Minister for Economics and Labour (Germany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Minister of Economics and Labour (Germany))
The Federal Minister for Economics and Labour is the member of the German cabinet in charge of the Federal Ministry for Economics and Labour.
The post is due to be divided into an Economics ministership, to be filled by Edmund Stoiber, and a Labor ministership, to be filled by an SPD appointment, according to what has been revealed of the terms of Angela Merkel's grand coalition agreement.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minister_of_Economics_and_Labour_(Germany)   (113 words)

  
 OECD Observer: Germany
On the contrary, Germany bears a special burden, owing to the impact of German reunification.
In the 1980s, growth of real GDP per capita in Germany and the other EU countries was roughly the same as in the United States, at around 2% per year.
Germany is one of the world's great trading nations.
www.oecdobserver.org /news/categoryfront.php/id/78/Germany.html   (402 words)

  
 Browse Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
In 2002, Schroeder's justice minister charged that President Bush was beating the Iraq war drum to "distract attention from his domestic problems." Actually, it was Schroeder who tried to curry favor with Germans by bashing Bush to distract them from his domestic problems....
Germany has experienced no war in the last years and the corruption rate is certainly lower than in many other countries.
I spoke to the president, the prime minister and to the interior minister, but in the last case I was speaking to him in my capacity as chairwoman...
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/t-germany/browse   (5842 words)

  
 Germany: total union capitulation at DaimlerChrysler
The latest developments in Germany have been closely followed by company boards in France, as was reported by the French correspondent of the Frankfurter Rundschau: “The bosses and those campaigning for a ‘lean’ market economy are fascinated by what is taking place on the other side of the Rhine....
While the SPD and the Greens have taken over responsibility for the dismantling of the German welfare state with their so-called Agenda 2010 programme, social democratic trade union functionaries in the factories are active in destroying past achievements.
Under these conditions, all that remains for Germany’s conservative opposition and the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) is to add their applause and attempt to go one step further.
www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jul2004/daim-j31.shtml   (1741 words)

  
 Davids Medienkritik: Germany's Critique of the U.S.: One-Way Street Only
You should be lucky that Germany finally begins adopting the culture of pros and cons, it is part of the process of becoming a normal nation rather than a reason for whining.
Germany hasn't spent trillions of dollars and millions of casualties over the course of more than a century defending freedom and promoting democracy.
Germany may only be two or three major economic events away from a meltdown.
medienkritik.typepad.com /blog/2004/09/germanys_critiq.html   (13107 words)

  
 Sao Tome President Asks Ex-labour Minister To Form Government   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The prime minister was dismissed after being named early in the week in a supposedly confidential report alleging that she was a suspected beneficiary of embezzled foreign aid funds, one source told AFP, asking not to be named.
Das Neves became prime minister in October 2002 and returned to office at the head of a reshuffled coalition government after a military coup bid which began and ended peacefully in July 2003.
She had asked for the resignation of two of the MDFM ministers on the grounds that they were taking decisions without consulting her.
www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=27445   (676 words)

  
 Russian Labour Minister: Social Indicators Improved Last Year | RosbaltNews.COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The minister said that in 2002 real monetary incomes of the population increased by 8.8%, real wages by 16.6%, and real pensions by 16.4%.
The minister also said that the number of strikes in Russia last year was the lowest in recent years.
France and Germany's policy is causing a rift within NATO which could eventually lead to the loss of US influence in Europe and EU displacement of NATO.
www.rosbaltnews.com /2003/02/19/61451.html   (857 words)

  
 Australian Immigration Minister - Media Release: Germany Joins Working Holiday Maker Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Philip Ruddock, announced in Berlin today that Australia and Germany had agreed to a mutual Working Holiday Maker (WHM) arrangement for young people.
"Germany is a most welcome addition to the program as it attests to the strength of the relationship that Australia enjoys with Germany."
The addition of Germany brings to eight the number of countries with which Australia has reciprocal WHM arrangements.
www.minister.immi.gov.au /media_releases/ruddock_media00/r00030.htm   (335 words)

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