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...Analysts say that conservative leaders disliked the CDU's swing to the center of the political spectrum when Merkel led the country in partnership with the Social Democrats from 2005 until September 2009, and want the party to shift back to its traditional Christian roots. The CDU governor of Saarland, Peter Müller, confirmed just as much when he told the Handelsblatt newspaper that there should be a more "pure CDU" now. (See pictures of the dangers of printing money in Germany...
...election campaign that has lacked emotional issues, anger over GM and Merkel's handling of the Opel crisis could end up hurting her if it fuels support for leftist parties. This weekend should provide a hint at what could come in September, with elections in the states of Saarland, Thuringia and Saxony. "GM's management is leading the government around by the nose and abandoning the Opel workers," said Bodo Ramelow, a leading official of Die Linken, successor to the former East German Communist Party, who is running for governor in Thuringia. "It's time for the Chancellor to show...
...word leaked that a number of party officials, who had testified in favor of the ban, were actually paid police informants and could have been influencing the NPD's extremist policies. The publicity may have been good for the party. In September's election in the western state of Saarland, it won 4% of the vote, heralding its revival. The NPD's success in Saxony is partly due to protest voters angry about Schröder's economic reforms, especially plans to reduce unemployment benefits. NPD national chairman Udo Voigt claims there would be no unemployment in Germany...
...especially incensed about Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's plan to replace income-indexed benefits with flat-rate payments for the long-term unemployed. Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD) is bracing for a major setback when state elections are held next month in Brandenburg, Saxony and Saarland. The SPD is faring so badly in Brandenburg, where it currently rules in a coalition government, that the Party of Democratic Socialism - the successor to the former East German communists - has overtaken it in opinion polls...
...officer. Both had been created by predecessor Thomas Middelhoff in an attempt to consolidate power at the firm. "Thielen came in and said, 'Decentralize,'" says a senior Bertelsmann official. "More than anything, that restored calm." Thielen, a 24-year company veteran who also runs a small sausage factory in Saarland and a dental lab on the side, won a power struggle with the chairman of the company's supervisory board over plans to merge Bertelsmann's music division and Sony--and in January had his contract extended by two years, to August...