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...hand it to Gerhard Schr?der; he really knows how to put on a show. At a campaign rally in Magdeburg in eastern Germany last week, he greeted the crowd with a big thumbs-up sign, gave a pugnacious and impassioned speech about his government's record, then exited to loud applause with his hands clasped over his head like a boxer who's delivered a knockout blow. From this bravura performance, you'd think Schr?der and his Social Democratic Party (SPD) were coasting to victory in the Sept. 18 elections. In fact, the SPD trails the Christian Democrats...
Merkel, 51, has been no less meticulous in charting her political campaign. As leader of the Christian Democratic Union, she will be running in federal elections Sept. 18 against Gerhard Schröder, whose Social Democrats have shared power with the Green Party since 1998. Unlike Schröder, Merkel doesn't make grand promises, preferring to talk about, say, trimming waste in the health-care system or tweaking consumer tax rates. Judging from polls, the strategy is working: the Christian Democrats last week led the Social Democrats by 13 points, though 29% of voters say they're still undecided. Merkel...
...going to do." As she finishes, the strains of the Rolling Stones' 1973 hit Angie fill the air. The song has become Merkel's theme tune in a campaign that has her Christian Democratic Union (cdu) and its Bavarian sister party, the csu, 14 points ahead of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and his Social Democratic Party (spdYet the polls also show two other trends: a surprisingly large number of Germans say they don't know who they will vote for on Sept. 18, and in personal popularity ratings Schröder bests Merkel by 51% to 35%. According...
Selling alcohol to Muslims doesn't sound like a smart proposition. Never mind beer granules. Yet Gerhard Kamil, 45, is taking aim at the 53 million-gallon Middle Eastern malt-beverage market with a new product: malt granules that become a foaming, nonalcoholic beer by adding water. The Bavarian brewer is wooing soft-drink bottlers from Iraq to Indonesia with his "PlatoTec" process, which makes tiny, layered granules of malt at about $2 per lb. Tapping the nonalcoholic halal-beer and flavored-malt-drink market positions GranMalt against Heineken's Fayrouz in Egypt and Carlsberg's Moussy in Saudi Arabia...
...German Jewish leaders at a momentous ceremony Friday at Cologne's synagogue, which was destroyed by the Nazis on the infamous Kristallnacht rampage in 1938. He also has meetings with German Muslim leaders and non-Catholic Christians, as well as top political leaders on the eve of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's bid for re-election...