Schroeder's party has found its bite
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats lost local elections in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Sunday but appeared to have halted their recent slide at the ballot box.
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The German economy, the biggest in the 12-country eurozone, is currently in party mood, with business confidence at its highest level since unification 16 years ago.
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MOSCOW -- The powerful, pro-Kremlin United Russia party has a new opponent, but it bears the marks of a Kremlin creation.
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The recent behavior of a party with pretensions of returning to power and leading Israel out of its crisis does not reflect much common sense.
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Early results of a local election in Germany show the country&#39;s ruling Social Democratic party appears to have avoided a major defeat following a string of recent electoral losses.
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The dwindling group of undecided Democratic superdelegates is being caught in strong political crosscurrents.
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As results come in, party appears highly conflicted about its direction and guiding principles
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Parties on the fringes of Germany's political spectrum have been given an eager reception in the depressed east ahead of state elections this weekend, luring voters with a mix of xenophobic standards and new complaints over plans to reduce much-needed benefits.
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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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MOSCOW, Aug. 29 -- The powerful and pro-Kremlin United Russia party has a new opponent -- one, however, that bears all the marks of a Kremlin creation.
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A party that openly espouses xenophobic and neo-Nazi views made further inroads in a regional election.
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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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Germany faced a surge of far-right parties in eastern state elections, worrying about their rise and the ensuing damage to the country's image.
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Members of former East Germany's ruling communist party could emerge as a powerful force in Sunday polls.
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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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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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A day after far-right parties made striking gains in state elections in eastern Germany, political analysts cautioned against drawing parallels to the political extremism of the Weimar Republic.