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...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 than...
...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 to pull...
...before elections. Aznar won't testify until October. Zapatero said last week he would be willing to testify if called, though he told TIME he thought the request "verges on the ridiculous" since he sees the commission's remit as probing the terrorist attack, not the election. Chirac and Schröder don't see involvement in Iraq as a litmus test for antiterrorist resolve. But both their governments reacted with notable reserve when Zapatero called the U.S. occupation "a disaster" and "a huge mistake," then yanked his troops, just as France and Germany were seeking to lower the temperature...
...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...
...that are not contradictory. If you reverse the spelling reform now, it will bring chaos across the country." According to Ernst Klett, Germany's biggest publisher of textbooks and dictionaries, going back would cost cash-strapped local governments j250 million for new books with the old spellings. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder caused a predictable outcry when he said he sees no reason to drop the reforms. "The spelling reform is a good example of the German disease," says Guido Westerwelle, leader of the Free Democratic Party. "Instead of taking care of domestic security by hiring more policemen, we wasted...