Eastern Germans see gloomy future
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Nearly 60 percent of Germans in the former Soviet bloc eastern half of the country believe that it will take "more than 10 years" for their living conditions to catch up with those in western Germany, according ...
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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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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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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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Business confidence in Germany, Europe&#39;s largest economy, has fallen to its lowest level in more than a year, over concerns at a strengthening euro.
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BERLIN - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrats (SPD) face a fresh rout in polls in two ex-communist states, where ire over his economic reforms could drive German voters into the arms of extremists.
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HAMBURG -- They closed the cinema and then the disco. The tractors grew scarce and the men grew moody. Claudia Mantzsch's east German hometown seemed to shrink. She wanted to stay but was laid off two weeks after getting her first job. Her boss offered some advice: Flee this place, or become a nurse for the elderly.
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BERLIN, Dec 27 (IPS) - It has been a miserable month for the Brosowskys, a  German family in the small city of Marschacht.
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East Germans gave a strong boost to right wing extremists and the former communists in two state elections, punishing the countryâs biggest mainstream parties for the regionâs high unemployment and cuts in social programmes.
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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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Germany's far-right is expected to profit from discontent over Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's welfare cuts in elections in two eastern states on Sunday that observers fear will damage the country's image.
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Germany marks the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Tuesday, but many of its people aren&#39;t in the mood for celebration.
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Germans are increasingly worried about jobs, their incomes and also feel Germany is losing out in the process of globalization, a survey showed on Friday.
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COTTBUS - Former communist East Germany has been transformed for the better 15 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall even though big problems remain including high unemployment and a worrying tendency of voters to back extremist parties.
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Germany is alarmed that many Russian-German immigrants are having a tough time integrating, the BBC's Ray Furlong reports.
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BONN, GERMANY.- Thirteen years after the end of Communism in East Germany, the exhibition looks back on fourty years of art in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The exhibition shows works of art that ...
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For those of us who witnessed the joy and the drama of the end of Communist rule in the former Soviet Union, the past decade has been disappointing.