Collective bargaining in retail still without agreement Stuttgart. The DAG union is demanding a 5 percent increase in pay as well as job security regulations. Minister presidents meet with Chancellor Kohl Bonn. The minister presidents of all 16 federal states met with Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Bonn to discuss possibilities for budget cuts. They also discussed media policies.
Culture policy is an important part of foreign policy Bonn.
According to Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel, culture policy abroad will remain an important part of German foreign policy. At the beginning of the parliament's culture policy debate, Mr. Kinkel declared in a policy statement that substance and quality of culture policy abroad had been maintained despite tight budgets. He thanked the Goethe Institut as well as other cultural institutions for making up for cuts with much effort and imagination. Mr. Kinkel stressed the importance of language promotion in Eastern Europe as well as cooperation with Asian countries. The federal government agrees with the opposition in this respect, as all parties consider culture policy an important contribution of foreign policy.