Social Democracies Uber Alles

Now this story is something to keep in mind the next time someone tells you about the advantages of the European-style social democracies...

A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual services'' at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.

(Kudus to Pejman.)

UPDATE (1 Mar 2005): apparently this story is fake but accurate.