German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) secretary general Volker Kauder poses beside a new CDU poster "Record Unemployment - tackle it instead of waiting, Mr. Schroeder" in Berlin February 2, 2005. German unemployment rose in January to the highest recorded level since 1933 as Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's government labour market reforms and seasonal effects added more than half a million people to jobless rosters. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann AKW/JOH