Word: chemnitz
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...Schr?der's deft response to a similar crisis in eastern Germany helped him edge ahead of challenger Edmund Stoiber in 2002?look capable of saving him. "Every well-informed SPD voter knows that they cannot win this election," says Alfons S?llner, a political scientist at the Technical University of Chemnitz in eastern Germany...
...wage-bargaining practices. Trouble is, the spd owes much of its unpopularity to an attempt to introduce just such measures. Germans seem to want reform, but are determined to punish reformers. "As voters, we may believe we can handle uncomfortable truths," says Eckhard Jesse, professor of political science at Chemnitz Technical University in eastern Germany, "but when it actually comes to listening and accepting them, we shy away. Although it was extremely courageous for Merkel to come out and say that she'll raise vat, it may not have been a good idea." At the Dresden rally, though, Merkel...
...biggest). It is a forgotten land of mountains, storks, scarecrows and industrious people - a quarter of whom are unemployed - struggling to adjust to post-communist life. "It's so strange to find Warhol here, in the middle of this nowhere," says Heiko Schramm, 36, a visitor from Chemnitz, Germany...