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Information technology – little leapfrogging potential
World Summit on the Information Society
Electronic waste – digital divide becomes digital dump
US food aid remains unreformed
NGO report on German development aid
German President launches “Partnership with Africa”
New German government agrees on development policy
Kortmann becomes Parliamentary Secretary
ACP countries criticise EU Partnership Agreements
Africa looses out in apparel competition
Reforming EU’s sugar regulations
12/2005
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Kortmann becomes BMZ Parliamentary Secretary
Karin Kortmann, a Social Democrat member of the Bundestag, has been appointed Parliamentary Secretary at the Federal Development Ministry (BMZ). In the past parliamentary term, she served as her party’s spokesperson on development issues. Karin Kortmann was appointed to her new position by fellow Social Democrat Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, who is staying on as Development Minister after having held that brief for seven years during the red-green Coalition under chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Ms. Kortmann’s predecessor was Uschi Eid, a member of the Green Party. In Germany’s governmental hierarchy, parliamentary secretaries can stand in for cabinet members’ during Bundestag sessions, whereas the state secretaries serve as the top administrators in the ministries.
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