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...jobs." Those concerns touched a nerve in Saxony, where unemployment in places tops 20%. The NPD won 9.2% of the vote and took 12 seats in the state parliament, its best showing in more than three decades and a dramatic setback for the country's main political parties, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats (SPD) and the opposition Christian Democrats (CDU). The CDU lost its absolute majority in Saxony's parliament and will now have to form a coalition to run the state, while the SPD won only 9.8% of the vote and took just one more seat...
...employment laws and high labor costs, German industry is gradually being hollowed out. In 1993, for example, Siemens employed 238,000 people in Germany and 153,000 in other countries; 10 years later, these figures were reversed, to 167,000 in Germany and 247,000 elsewhere. Some of Chancellor Gerhard Schroder's economic reforms are kicking in--an astounding 6.3 million people (out of a population of 83 million) have signed up to work part time in "mini-jobs," earning up to $486 a month tax free--but he hasn't solved the big problems...
...tasks will be to establish his credentials in foreign policy, especially the Iraq war and the strains within the European Union. Last week he capped his country's about-face on Iraq by hosting the leaders of the E.U.'s antiwar faction, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, at a mini-summit in Madrid. Zapatero called those countries "the heart of Europe" and inverted U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's famous jibe by saying "old Europe is like new." A week earlier, during a visit to Tunisia, he called on all other coalition countries...
...people," he says - and his message resonates among voters in eastern Germany. With two state elections in the east this Sunday, the PDS is expected to perform better than at any time since German reunification in 1990. That could position the PDS as a left alternative to Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's struggling Social Democrats, with potentially disastrous consequences for the ruling party in the 2006 general election. When Bisky took over the PDS last year, the party was in disarray. In the 2002 parliamentary elections, the PDS dropped from 36 seats in the Bundestag to just two. Bisky...
...keen on more invasions. After three years of criticizing Bush for high-handedness, some foreign officials at the G8 summit in June saw a real change. U.S. officials, they said, were more willing to listen, more interested in finding a pragmatic solution to their differences. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, long in the White House doghouse after opposing the war in Iraq, was moved to declare after a meeting with Bush at the summit, "There has been a remarkable change in the American foreign policy." Of course, many were saying that back when Bush went to the U.N. for a seal...