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...With the Guidomobile, I want to do things differently. I want to meet people, talk and have discussions with them. Mr. Schröder and Mr. Stoiber can just keep on traveling in their Lear jets or their state coaches. Our campaign is for everyone." - On why his gaudy 49-ft. motor home is a useful campaign tool (Deutsche Welle, July 27, 2002) (Read "Fight Over Tax Cuts Looms for Merkel...
...enough share of the vote to overtake the SPD and oust the incumbent coalition of SPD and Greens. Polling stations closed at 6 p.m., and the CDU started celebrating as television broadcasters published the results of exit polls that seemed to confirm its victory. At 6:47 p.m., Edmund Stoiber, the leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) and a Chancellor candidate for both, declared himself the winner. "One thing is clear already," he said, beaming. "The CDU, the CSU - we have won the election!" And so it seemed, based on the tally...
...Barroso realizes. Prominent politicians across Europe have been expressing a growing skepticism about Turkey's candidacy ever since talks began. Nicolas Sarkozy, French Interior Minister and presidential candidate, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have both said they are against full E.U. membership. Harsher critics, such as Bavarian Governor Edmund Stoiber, have condemned Turkey's press restrictions and limited rights for minorities not as problems to be overcome, but as proof that Turkey is unsuitable for the European club. "Turkey is not a European state, and to admit its accession into the Union would change the character of Europe," Stoiber declared...
...Energy Commissioner. An unexpected winner after the Ukrainian fracas might be the nuclear-power industry. Some Germans are questioning plans in their country to pull the plug on nuclear power. "We now see with the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine how quickly we can become vulnerable," said Edmund Stoiber, the Governor of Bavaria. In France, which already relies on nuclear energy for more than 75% of its electricity, President Jacques Chirac announced plans to develop a new generation of reactors. In Ukraine itself, critics worried about the likelihood of big price rises in the future. And the pivotal role...
Just when things seemed to be going so well, talks on forming a coalition government in Germany hit a major snag. Or did they? On Monday, Social Democratic Party (spd) leader Franz Müntefering stepped down over differences with the left wing of his own team. Then Edmund Stoiber, the silver-haired leader of the Christian Democratic Union's (cdu) sister party, the Christian Social Union, also quit, claiming he could not work with anyone but his close friend Müntefering. Angela Merkel's attempt to stitch together a government as Germany's first female Chancellor was thrown...