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...took part in protest marches against the proposed cuts. Eastern Germany, with its 18.5% unemployment rate, is 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...
...lonely at the top for German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller. Their austerity drives have angered voters, alienated supporters - and inspired the creation of new leftist parties to oppose reform. Since coming to power in 1998, Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD) has lost 125,000 members - 16% of the total - primarily because of the government's effort to cut back the welfare state. According to a recent Forsa poll published in Stern magazine, 64% of those surveyed think Schröder's reforms are wrong, and 76% find them "socially unjust...
What's the most powerful political institution in Germany right now? It's not Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD), which was humiliated in state elections last week in Hesse and Lower Saxony (Schröder's home state). And it's not the rival Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which despite its gains hasn't yet come up with a coherent plan for economic reform. No, the organization with the most clout these days is an obscure legislative group called the Mediation Committee. Meeting in a soundproof Berlin conference room with no natural light...
...votes, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder faces two key state elections this weekend. Polls suggest the opposition Christian Democrats (CDU) are likely to win in both the central state of Hesse, where they're already in power, and the northern state of Lower Saxony, a Social Democratic (SPD) stronghold for the past 13 years. Losing Lower Saxony would be especially humiliating for Schröder, who ran the state as premier from 1990 until 1998 when he became Chancellor. More importantly, a double victory would further strengthen the CDU's position in the Bundesrat, the upper house...
...Scharping said he had properly reported the payments and paid tax on them. "Large parts of the claims against me are false and deliberately defamatory," he said. The payments controversy was only the latest in a string of accusations against Scharping, a former leader of the Social Democratic party (SPD) who ran unsuccessfully against Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1994. Last summer, Scharping came under severe criticism when photographs were published showing him and his girlfriend cavorting in Majorca at a time when German troops were beginning a dangerous deployment in Macedonia. Scharping was also criticized for using military planes...