1.   The Upper House of the German parliament is to meet today in Berlin.

2.   Both German parliaments approve a resolution recognising the inviolability of the Oder-Neisse border with Poland.

3.   This is not as easy as it sounds as it needs a change to the German constitution which requires a two third majority in the German parliament.

4.   Aware of the protests, Chancellor Helmut Kohl introduced an emergency job-creation package in the German parliament.

5.   A similar move by the German parliament would have been unthinkable.

6.   A year later he ran as a fringe-party candidate for the German parliament.

7.   Bush first spoke of a policy of pre-emptive action when he addressed the German parliament last month.

8.   He said he hopes the German parliament can pass a telecommunications bill this summer.

9.   He was the first Russian leader to address the German parliament since the Second World War, and the first foreign statesman to do so in German.

10.   His call was echoed by Ottmar Schreiner, the deputy-head of the opposition Social Democrats in the lower house of the German parliament.