Germans demonstrate against cuts to benefits
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Berlin -- Police said 15,000 demonstrators brought protests against benefit cuts to the German capital yesterday, marching to the headquarters of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrats in central Berlin.
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BERLIN - German and Polish politicians have played down a resolution by the Polish parliament calling on the government to take legal action aimed at making Germany pay war reparations for Nazi Germany&#39;s World War II invasion of Poland.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democratic Party is likely to lose elections in four of Germany&#39;s 16 states this month as voters protest welfare cuts and rising unemployment, according to opinion polls.
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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 ...
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Far-right parties made their strongest showing in six years in German state elections on Sunday, as voters reacted against the governing Social Democratic Party after sharp cutbacks in welfare benefits.
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German Labour Minister Olaf Scholz has pledged that the country will implement a minimum wage in all sectors, an issue that has been dividing the ruling coalition, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Hundreds of workers at an Opel car plant in Germany kept up a protest outside the factory gates Sunday against plans by parent company General Motors for thousands of job cuts, demanding assurances that there will be no compulsory layoffs.
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BOCHUM, Germany  - Thousands of embittered car  workers rallied across Europe against mass job cuts planned by  General Motors, the world's biggest automaker, as labor unrest  disrupted output at more GM plants Tuesday.
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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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Workers protested attempts to overhaul the stateÂs pension and health systems as part of a tax reform package.
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German employees of European airplane maker Airbus have staged demonstrations at plants all around the country in protest against restructuring plans which they fear could lead to the loss of up to 8,000 jobs in Germany.
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Workers at three factories belonging to German car maker Volkswagen in northern Germany staged protest demonstrations on Tuesday to turn up the pressure on management ahead of a crucial round of wage talks ...