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Article: Dieter Kastrup, a diplomatic German; Charlemagne.(Charlemagne: Dieter Kastrup, the German chancellor's foreign-policy adviser)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 4, 2002
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But not one whose advice will soften the German chancellor's foreign-policy stance
"A COW that is worked hard, and that gives good milk, must sometimes also be stroked." Thus Gerhard Schroder, busy again this week nagging members of the European Commission about the need to take Germany's economic and industrial interests to heart if his country is to go on producing the goodies that finance a quarter of the European Union's budget.
When Dieter Kastrup took over as Mr Schroder's foreign policy adviser in January, pundits predicted the return of a more modest German approach to the world. A former ambassador to the United Nations, he looked just the ...