German finance minister calls for minimum wage
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Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck called for a common minimum wage for workers in Germany in an interview Wednesday, taking up an key issue that divides the coalition government.
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Germany's ailing Social Democrats, partners in the ruling coalition, said Sunday they would put their call for a national minimum wage at the heart of their campaign in key state polls early next year.
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Germany's finance ministry denied a report in the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that it plans to curb tax rebates for commuters and begin levying taxes on weekend and nighttime work in order to keep the 2005 budget ...
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Germany interior minister calls for new anti-terror measures after a failed bomb attack on two trains last month.
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Defenders of financial rigour in the European Union attacked Tuesday a German call for a radical overhaul of the eurozone's budget rules at a lively meeting of EU finance chiefs.
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The G7 finance ministers are due to meet in Germany, with the low value of the yen likely to be a key issue of debate.
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German Finance Minister Hans Eichelon Friday called on the world&#39;s three main trading blocks to find a way of halting the dollar&#39;s slide against the euro and the yen.
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Automaker Adam Opel AG is proposing increasing the work week for its German employees to 40 hours from 35 hours to save money, according to a report Friday.
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The German deputy finance minister, Caio Koch-Weser, sharply criticized the US administration in an interview made available for showering tax breaks on the wealthy and letting deficits get out of control while failing to improve the economy.
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The head of Germany's industrial federation has urged 15,000 company bosses to stick together in resisting any cap on executive salaries being mooted by some politicians, the daily Bild reported Saturday.
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Germany's annual inflation rate rose to 1.5% last month, from a two-and-a-half- year low of 1.1% in October, the Statistics Office says.
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Europe needs to create "good jobs and fair conditions," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday as the EU's executive arm promised guidelines for more flexible labor laws to promote job growth.
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With Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder under heavy fire this week, the government appeared to want to ease the pain of its controversial economic reforms by rekindling the debate about the introduction of minimum wages.
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Defenders of financial rigour in the European Union attacked German calls for a radical dilution of the eurozone's budget rules at a lively meeting of EU finance chiefs.
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Volkswagen AG, Europe&#39;s largest carmaker, wants German workers to agree to a two-year wage freeze to cut costs amid a stagnating market in place of the 4 percent yearly raise unions are demanding.
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German President Horst Koehler sparks a row with comments on giving aid to the  poorer eastern states.
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Germany's monthly jobless rate for September reaches its lowest level for more than 14 years.