If (the union) continues to insist on short working time, there will be more privatization.

One can't sign every contract no matter how bad it may be for the state's budgets.

We are standing by the demand for a 40-hour week.

We won't cut unemployment by only employing people in the public sector.

I don't think there will be a big impact. VW is now protected from hostile takeover, hedge funds will lose interest.

At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rarely seen outside but was reading two to four books per week, the subjects ranging from archaeology over ethnology and geography to zoology. Needless to say that I did not do much homework.