Their repatriation would probably not be possible before the spring of 2000. US and German KFOR units impose curfew US and German KFOR units imposed a curfew in several Kosovo towns in order to prevent sackings and arsons. Riester firm on private retirement planning Federal minister for labor Riester stands pat on his retirement proposals. These payments will be subsidized by the government. Initially, this will be a voluntary scheme.
Details are to be worked out over the next few years.
Riester also defended the plan of limiting retirement pay increases strictly to the inflation rate during two years. CDU chairman Schaeuble was critical of the government's plan. Chancellor Schroeder had reneged on his electoral promise of increasing retirement pay at the same rate as net wages, Schaeuble said in Bonn. CDU want to organize citizens against the government's retirement proposals by means of personal letters to all retired people, protest meetings and an ad campaign. Schaeuble said that the coalition's fraudulent action must be exposed in public.