Germans mass against benefit changes
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Tens of thousands of Germans are expected on the streets of Berlin today for the latest of a series of demonstration which the organisers say will continue until the government withdraws its plans to cut social benefit payments.
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"It is true that we support infrastructure in economically less privileged regions, also in Germany"  Anti-Nokia anger in Germany for closing a factory is growing. Besides public demonstrations several top level politicians are publicly ditching the firm's phones. via MobileMonday
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder vows to continue with unpopular welfare reforms that have prompted huge protests.
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Germany is in an uproar as the Social Democrats suggest putting a limit on how fast cars can go on the limitless autobahn
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Many of the young and poor gave their voices to a neo-Nazi party in this weekend's elections in Chancellor Angela Merkel's home state, a development that has unsettled the German government.
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Plans to end subsidies for coal mining in Germany are under threat after a dispute over the timetable for the move.
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Voters in two east German states angry over high unemployment and cuts in social programs handed a rebuke Sunday to Germany's two biggest parties, giving big gains to far right and former Communist groups, ...
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Nearly 40,000 people in Germany, backed by expressions of support elsewhere in Europe, took to the streets to protest plans by US auto giant General Motors to axe about one-fifth of its European workforce and possibly even close a plant.
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There's a blizzard of criticism in Scandinavian papers and German papers grapple with low birth rates
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Voters in two east German states angry over high unemployment handed a rebuke Sunday to Germany's two biggest parties, giving big gains to far right and former Communist groups, television projections showed.
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Wildcat strikes over looming job cuts at automaker Opel have caught a major German trade union off-guard at a time when its plate is full with opposition to mass staff cuts at other companies and to a ...
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German voters handed Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder a stinging defeat in elections Sunday in the small western state of Saarland, reflecting public anger over his drive to cut into the country's cherished network of social programs.
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German President Horst Koehler sparks a row with comments on giving aid to the  poorer eastern states.
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Eastern Germany sees more mass protests over welfare cuts, with smaller rallies in western cities.
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German voters handed Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder a stinging defeat in elections Sunday in the small western state of Saarland, reflecting public anger over his drive to cut
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A new poll indicates West Germans are increasingly in favor of economic and labor reform, while East Germans continue to oppose change.
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BERLIN: Several hundred protesters clashed with police at a Berlin unemployment office yesterday as a sharp cut in jobless benefits took effect in a government effort to force people to find work.