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To: Don Lloyd who wrote (2577)	7/3/2001 10:07:56 AM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 24758

Don, I agree, an increased willingness to accept and recruit immigrants is an encouraging sign. July 2, 2001 Business and Finance - Europe New Reform to Immigration Law Shows Shift in Germany's Policy By CECILIE ROHWEDDER, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL interactive.wsj.com ... "People are beginning to understand that an information-technology worker from Bangalore isn't going to take away the job of a mine worker in the Ruhr region," said Mr. Oezdemir. To a large extent, Germany is an immigrant country already. With 7.3 million foreign-born residents, or 9% of its population of 82 million, the nation already has more foreigners than any other in Europe. Germany also has relatively generous policies for political asylum, partly motivated by an effort to repent for its Nazi past. And it has accepted hundreds of thousands of refugees from the recent Balkan wars. ... And another article: Business and Finance - Europe Germany Will Strike Laws Barring Retailers From Offering Discounts By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL interactive.wsj.com BERLIN -- Bowing to the realities of e-commerce and foreign competition, the German lower house of Parliament agreed to abolish Nazi-era laws that bar stores from using discounts and promotional offers. The change, which the upper house of Parliament is expected to approve later this month, could go into effect as early as August. The old laws were as "useless as a hole in the head," said Andrea Fischer, a member of the government coalition-member Green Party, which supported the laws' abolition. ... This is a partial refutation of your statement in #reply-16007374 (#2563): No member of the Green Party, however named, will ever support the market economy.