Germany -- like most of Europe -- has a broad safety net: benefits for the poor and unemployed, universal health care and good pensions.

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Of course any progress towards more open and free trade is a net good for the world.

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This is not to take sides in what is an important debate, with passions that run high on both sides, merely to point out that their huge presence in the UK can't be assumed to be a net good thing.

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"We would be seriously interested in doing it over the Net with good encryption, " says Michael Liberman, a J.

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