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...words of one government statement, that Germany's Nazi past obliges the government "to monitor the development of any extreme groups within its borders - even when the group's members are small in number." Speaking to reporters last week, Ralf Stegner, the interior minister for the state of Schleswig-Holstein, called Scientology a "totalitarian" organization. "They want to break people's will," he said. "That's why we have to fight them." Federal Interior Minister Schaeuble, however, has yet to tip his hand on how he might respond to the states' initiative. His ministry has said that the group...
...said to resent being called Herr Merkel, even in jest. German tabloids have dubbed him the "Phantom of the Opera" because of his tendency to show up only at the Bayreuth opera festival, while preferring to avoid muddying his boots at the annual pig farmers' convention in Schleswig-Holstein. But Sauer clearly has a soft spot for some events on his wife's schedule - in particular, those that involve rubbing shoulders with the Bushes, according to Merkel biographer Gerd Langguth. His natural reserve notwithstanding, the scientist has made a point of greeting the U.S. First Couple during their earlier visits...
...rank and file, who've vented their frustrations in a string of recent state elections. The spd lost in Saxony-Anhalt in 2002 and in Lower Saxony - Schröder's home state - in 2003. In April, it was forced into a grand coalition with the cdu in Schleswig-Holstein. The state polls are key to Germany's federal system because the states are represented in the Bundesrat, or upper house of parliament, which must approve about two-thirds of legislation passed by the Bundestag, or lower house. "The election in North Rhine-Westphalia is an extremely important decision," Economy...
...German chancellor Gerhard Schröder's coalition government in danger of falling apart? A lot depends on negotiations this week in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, where neither the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) nor the opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) managed to win a majority in a February state election. After incumbent SPD state premier Heide Simonis failed to build a minority government, the SPD and CDU have opened talks on a possible "grand coalition." The CDU has the advantage: by walking away, it would trigger new state elections and almost certainly win. Failure to strike a deal...
...formulating proposals to stop far-right groups from demonstrating near Holocaust memorials. This would nix the NPD's planned May rally at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate near the new memorial to murdered Jews but would not have prevented clashes last weekend between the NPD and left-wingers in Schleswig-Holstein, where elections take place on Feb. 20. Moscow, too, is confronting anti-semitism. On Jan. 13, 500 prominent Russians, including 20 members of parliament, sent a letter to the state prosecutor calling for a ban on all Jewish organizations, which they labeled "extremist." It was withdrawn after government pressure...