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Analyzes election results and cabinet changes in Germany during 2004. Tables, References.

Provides an overview of politics in Germany in 2000, highlighting election results & national issues. 2 Tables. Adapted from the source document.

Although strong traditional principles have stifled reform of multiple procedures beyond joinder and consolidation, injunction claims by associations and commercial organizations have for some decades been more active in Germany than many European states. Since 2000, innovative experiments have been under way with a special model case procedure for investor claims and assignment of claims in antitrust. Both these approaches are likely to prove inadequate, but debates on reform remain cautious. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright The American Academy of Political and Social Science.]

My first contact with Germany was in 1921 when I visited European countries in a party conducted by that indefatigable world traveler Sherwood Eddy. We visited the Ruhr and Rhineland, where Germany was offering "passive resistance" to the efforts of Poincare to extract from a reluctant, vanquished nation the reparations which subsequently were found to be excessive and which were in effect paid by American loans (Dawes plan and Young plan). The French occupation of the Rhineland became ever more oppressive in the heat of the struggle and wrecked the economy of both nations. The British occupied the section of the Rhineland with Cologne as die center and rather ostentatiously disassociated themselves from the French designs.

Although strong traditional principles have stifled reform of multiple procedures beyond joinder and consolidation, injunction claims by associations and commercial organizations have for some decades been more active in Germany than many European states. Since 2000, innovative experiments have been under way with a special model case procedure for investor claims and assignment of claims in antitrust. Both these approaches are likely to prove inadequate, but debates on reform remain cautious.

Provides an overview of German politics in 1999, highlighting election results & prominent issues. 3 Tables, 3 References.

In 2003, Iraq war opposition & neoliberal economic & welfare reforms were key issues in German politics. The conflict over the metalworker union leadership, the suicide of disgraced former Vice-Chancellor Jurgen Mollemann, President Johannes Rau's decision not to seek election in 2004, & steps toward a nonnuclear future also figured highly in the political scene. 2 Tables, 8 References. J. Zendejas