Moreover, home secretary Beckstein said that Bavaria intends to deprive the sect of its financial basis. Quota schemes for women are in breach of EC law Luxemburg. According to European law existing employment regulations, prescribing the automatic preference of women to men with equal qualification, are not permissible. In the opinion of the European Court of Justice these regulations were discriminating. The lawsuit had been initiated by a gardener from Bremen, who had not been employed by the municipal authorities on the grounds of such a quota scheme.
Farmers demand for currency compensation Bonn.
About 2,500 farmers were demonstrating today in Bonn's government sector. They were demanding compensation for currency related losses. The minister of agriculture, Borchert, promised to put the matter forward before the EC-commission in Brussels. Childrens' poverty in Germany Hamburg. According to the opinion of the Deacons' Work, a charitable organisation of the Protestant church, a changing trend in Germany, from poverty of the elderly people to poverty of children, can be observed.