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...lags behind the cdu in the run-up to next week's state elections; the most recent poll gives the cdu a six-point lead in a region where the spd has reigned supreme for nearly 40 years. And if more people like Wolfgang make the switch, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's fragile spd?Green coalition could fall apart at next year's national vote. "People here are just frustrated and want to see new faces," says Wolfgang, sniffing a pinch of red tobacco. "My grandpa used to say that the spd gave us prosperity after the war. That...
...risen dramatically, and the government has cut unemployment benefits, even as it cut taxes for corporations. That has angered unions and spd 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...
When Germany's Chancellor Gerhard Schröder snatched a narrow electoral victory in 2002, he garnered desperately needed votes by opposing George W. Bush's plans to invade Iraq. Now, in the run-up to crucial elections in North Rhine-Westphalia later this month, his party has launched a new assault. This time the target is Anglo Saxon-style capitalism. Franz Müntefering, chairman of the Social Democrats (SPD), inveighed against "swarms of locusts that fall on companies, stripping them bare before moving on." The inspiration for this alarming imagery was identified last week when his headquarters leaked...
...history. There are rabid nationalists in every country. It is upsetting to South Koreans and Chinese for the Japanese Prime Minister to regularly visit the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japanese soldiers - including convicted war criminals from World War II. Would Europeans feel comfortable trading with Germany if Chancellor Gerhard Schröder regularly met with those who deny the Holocaust? Ovidia Yu Singapore
...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...