Merkel's party fails to shine as neo-Nazis march in eastern Germany
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Voters dealt German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives a bitter blow in Berlin in regional elections which saw the neo-Nazis make a stunning breakthrough in her home state.
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BERLIN - Voters in two states in what was East Germany are expressing their discontent with the dominant political parties in Germany by endorsing radical right-wing and former communist parties in state elections, exit polls suggest.
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Germany&#39;s far-right is expected to profit from discontent over Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s welfare cuts in elections in two eastern states on Sunday that observers fear will damage the country&#39;s image.
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A far-right anti-foreigner  party has embarrassed German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a  regional election in her home state and delivered a wake-up  call to her 10-month-old government.
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BERLIN : German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s party vowed to press on with its tough economic reform drive, despite a fresh state election rout that spells trouble for a string of further polls this month.
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BERLIN Sept. 19, 2004 - Voters in two east German states angry over high unemployment handed a rebuke Sunday to Germany&#39;s two biggest parties, giving big gains to far right and former Communist groups, television projections showed.
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About 40,000 east Germans marched Monday in a protest like those that toppled communism in the region and directed against proposed labor reforms.
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POTSDAM, Germany  - In Germany's summer of discontent over social welfare cuts, parties on the extremes of the political spectrum are finding voters easy prey for two state elections in the formerly communist east this weekend.
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Eastern Germany sees more mass protests over welfare cuts, with smaller rallies in western cities.
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Germany&#39;s most overtly neo-Nazi party secured a footing in a regional parliament yesterday for the first time in more than a generation.
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A far-right party won seats Sunday in a regional parliament in formerly communist east Germany, exploiting discontent in the region with the country's highest unemployment rate.
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BusinessWeek Online - The jubilation that swept East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 long ago gave way to the sober reality of globalization and market forces. Now a decade of resentment seems to be boiling over. In Eastern cities such as Leipzig or Chemnitz, thousands have taken to the streets since July to protest cuts in unemployment benefits, the main source of livelihood for 1.6 million East Germans. Discontent among reunification's losers fueled big gains by the far left and far right in Brandenburg and Saxony state elections Sept. 19. ...
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's party has vowed again to stick to its hated economic reforms despite Sunday's election rout in the state of Saarland where the far-right NPD emerged as the strongest ...
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Police worries over potential racial violence and a demonstration by Germany&#039;s largest far-right party never materialized Wednesday in this eastern city where Iran and Angola played their final World Cup match.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats look set for an electoral battering in the eastern states of Brandenburg and Saxony on Sunday.
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State elections in the former East Germany are expected to see a resurgence by far right parties.
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The gains made by parties of the extreme right and left in elections in two eastern German states on Sunday spark much negative comment in regional and national papers.