Over the past year, Europe's sovereign-debt storm has forced Rome to introduce emergency measures including an unpopular new property tax, a public-sector wage freeze and raising the retirement age to 68 from 65.
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The coalition agreement rejects a minimum wage, but the FDP may do a deal if the CDU accepts other priorities, includingtax cuts.
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And then, beginning in the eighteen-nineties, the Supreme Court struck down an entire docket of Progressive legislation, including child-labor laws, unionization laws, minimum-wage laws, and the progressive income tax.