PARTY SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE CHRISTIAN SOCIAL UNION PARTY, THOMAS GOPPEL PROTESTS AGAINST THE HIGH FUEL PRICES IN MUNICH.


as long as it is expensive" in Munich, September 15, 2000 to launch a campaign against the ecology taxes of the government. The German government says the cash from the so called "Eco-taxes" are vital to its plan to overhaul the overburdened German pension system. Opposition conservatives said they will introduce a motion in parliament on Friday calling for the complete withdrawal of the taxes, which have so added some five U.S. cents - around six percent - on the price of a litre of petrol. A further three cents is scheduled for next January.