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151.	A Turkish Store in Kreuzberg Signals Progress in Integration (March 2005) A reporter describes how a Turkish newspaper store in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighborhood became successful only after its owner started catering to the needs of his German clientele. The author views....
152.	Unemployment Reaches an All-Time High of over Five Million Jobless (March 1, 2005) Under the Hartz IV reform, employable welfare recipients were counted among the registered unemployed for the first time. This change drove the unemployment level to over five million, leaving the....
153.	Poverty and Wealth (April 21, 2005) The gap between rich and poor has been growing in Germany since 2000. The author of this piece rejects simple causalities, however. He argues that wage shares, profit shares, and the distribution....
154.	Bundestag President Wolfgang Thierse Opens the Holocaust Memorial (May 10, 2005) In May 2005, the Bundestag President Wolfgang Thierse (SPD) opened the Memorial....
155.	The Path to New Elections in September 2005 (May-June 2005) In his memoirs, former chancellor Gerhard Schröder describes his decision to call for new elections a year before his term came to an end. In the end, his decision....
156.	The EU in Crisis (June 2, 2005) The rejection of the EU constitution by French and Dutch voters was a signal that European leaders had to take seriously. In this article, Martin Klingst reviews the reasons for the “no” vote and....
157.	The Appeal of the Berlin Metropolis (July 6, 2006) A cultural commentator evokes the many voices of the new Berlin and describes the appeal of the new/old German capital, whose strength seems to lay in its very deficiencies, and which has a sort....
158.	The New Left (June 25-26, 2005) According to journalist Jens Bisky, the “strange East-West alliance” between the PDS and the Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice [Wahlalternative Arbeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit....
159.	Germany and the United Nations (July 7, 2005) As part of the process of reforming the United Nations, the red-green government strove to acquire a permanent seat for Germany on the U.N. Security Council. This reform failed, due in part to resistance....
160.	The Work of the Treuhand in Retrospect (2005) As part of a series of interdisciplinary lectures at Humboldt University in Berlin in the summer semester of 2003, representatives from politics and business were asked to take a critical look at....
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