As Siemens half-heartedly clamped down on corruption, managers took ever more eccentric steps to avoid getting caught. When authorising payments, many of them signed on removable sticky notes.
They will shortly receive a letter informing them that they have until the end of February to act, or face the legal consequences—which could include being dissolved.
The statement informed them that their pensions were being cut. The reductions come as a stop-gap measure to control Germany's ballooning pension crisis.1
Last month a meeting of would-be donors to discuss ways of giving the Congolese a "peace dividend" was plunged into darkness by a power cut, despite being held in Kinshasa's plushest hotel.
Saying that there're no easy answers sounds wise, but it's actually foolish: our unemployment crisis could be cured very quickly if we had the intellectual clarity and political will to act.
Still, the Chinese have shown a reluctance to take dramatic steps for fear of upsetting the export-driven economic growth that has to create jobs for millions of new workers each year.
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