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Ever since German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder announced plans in May for snap elections this fall, it was a given that Angela Merkel would boot the Social Democrats out of office. But now, with the campaign in full swing, it's beginning to look as though her only option will be to form a cumbersome grand coalition with her political opponents. For now, Merkel's Christian Democrats (cdu) are still ahead of Schröder's Social Democrats - by 13 points in the Election Research Group's latest weekly poll for zdf television. But missteps...
...That was the message in Berlin last week when German President Horst Köhler agreed to dissolve parliament, paving the way for a snap election, expected on Sept. 18. "The people should be able to decide the future policies of our country," Köhler said. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder will be pleased - he engineered the poll by deliberately losing a confidence vote in parliament on July 1 - but at least two parliamentary deputies plan to challenge Köhler's decision in the Constitutional Court. If the election does take place, conventional wisdom is that Schr...
...Franz Müntefering likened Blackstone and other private-equity groups to "swarms of locusts" that fall on companies and devour all they can before moving on. "Some financial investors don't waste any thoughts on the people whose jobs they destroy," said Müntefering, who is chairman of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD) and who promised to fight against what he called this "anonymous, faceless" form of capitalism...
This fall, students interested in gender politics, the sociology of scienceâor just Larryâwill be able to indulge their interests in Sociology 163, âWomen and Science: Sociological Aspects,â taught by Lecturer on Sociology Gerhard Sonnert...
Buchloh is now finishing a monograph on the German painter Gerhard Richter, whom he has studied for two decades and whose reputation he has greatly advanced...