However, the threatened strike was avoided when a majority of OeTV members voted to accept the contract. The OeTV has called on the government in the meantime to apply the compromise to 1.9 million government officials. Schily possibly prepared to make concessions for government officials Berlin. The Ministry announced that Schily wanted to speak with Finance Minister Hans Eichel and then present a proposal. German exports in high gear Cologne.
German exports are in high gear again.
With this increase, the Federal Republic would win back more market share that it had in the last 20 years. World's most modern coal power plant now on line Leipzig. In Lippendorf near Leipzig, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder officially opened the world's most modern brown coal power plant. The 4.8 billion DM newly constructed plant will supply the new states and South Germany with electricity - enough capacity for 5 million customers. Schroeder said that the importance of domestic energy sources such as brown and hard coal would increase since the recently passed decision to phase out atomic power plants.