German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (2ndL) and Foreign Minister Joschka
Fischer (L) react during the speech of Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
fraction leader Friedrich Merz (R) in Berlin July 4, 2002. Schroeder
lobbied the lower house of Parliament, Bundestag, in its last major
economic debate before its summer break, to back a plan that promises
to halve unemployment in three years. REUTERS/Alexandra Winkler

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