Germans plan mass welfare rallies
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Protesters plan to take to the streets in more than 50 German towns and cities on Monday as cuts in unemployment benefit come into effect.
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Germany's far right looks set to win   seats in its third regional parliament on Sunday as discontent   with Chancellor Angela Merkel's national government and   depressed conditions in the east push voters to the fringes.
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Parties on the far right and left made gains in two state elections Sunday in Germany, with voters delivering a rebuke to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrats as he tries to rein in German welfare programs.
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Gains for a far-right party in a weekend  regional election are a wake-up call for Germany's ruling  coalition under Chancellor Angela Merkel, media said on Monday.
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"The SPD cannot close its eyes to the fact that 43% of all violent crimes in Germany are committed by people under 21 years of age and that nearly half of these are by foreign youths"  The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, today gave her backing to a controversial plan to introduce boot camps and "warning shot" spells in prison for criminal youths. via Surrey Hants Star
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More striking German civil servants held rallies Tuesday to press for higher wages amid a growing tax evasion scandal that could give labour militants a tailor-made issue to back up their demands.
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BERLIN, Jan 2  German labour offices are bracing for protests and possible violence tomorrow when jobless benefit cuts are enacted, the most sweeping and controversial post-war reforms that are ...
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Thousands of German workers took part in protests Tuesday against a government plan to raise the retirement age to 67, the country's biggest industrial union said.Comment
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Hundreds of thousands take to the streets across Russia in rallies for and against controversial welfare reform.
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Germans pride themselves on putting on a  good party -- take the Munich beer festival or last year&#39;s  soccer World Cup -- and Berlin is preparing for another big  celebration next week.
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Germany's Deutsche Telekom  wants to step up its efforts to cut labor costs and boost competitiveness by redeploying a large number of its civil servants and slimming down its bloated administration.
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The number of people officially registered as unemployed in Germany is set to rise this month as a result of labour market reforms that came into effect on January 1, German Economy and Labour Minister Wolfgang ...
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Germany's far-right is expected to profit from discontent over Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's welfare cuts and low voter turnout in elections in two eastern states today.
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Ahead of this weekend&#39;s elections in the eastern German states of Brandenburg and Saxony, leading politicians have been calling for voters to turn out and cast their ballots against far right parties.
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BERLIN Sept. 19, 2004 - Voters in two struggling east German states had a chance to voice their discontent Sunday over high unemployment and social welfare cuts in elections expected to give a boost to extreme-right and left-wing parties.
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German demonstrations against controversial welfare reforms were set to spread to 140 cities on Monday despite resistance from a broad front of governing and opposition parties to further compromises.
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Germany's government Friday proposed new laws to combat far-right demonstrations, timed to include a planned May march in Berlin on the 60th anniversary of the Nazi surrender in World War II.