The secretary of state also said he would be engaging in a parallel effort to breakdownredtape and other barriers to economic progress in the West Bank to improve the lives of Palestinians and provide a climate for two-state solution.
They rightly want to breakdownthe country's system of nationwide pay bargaining, link pay more closely to productivity, cut redtape and make working hours more flexible all good ideas for loosening up Germany's corpulent economy, reducing its social costs and labour-market stickiness.