Schroeder&#39;s party halts slump
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s party has halted an 18-month run of poll disasters by avoiding a fresh slump in local elections on Sunday, but will still need to make giant leaps to win a third term in 2006.
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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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BERLIN - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his Social Democrats have suffered a stinging loss in the western state of Saarland in the first of several regional elections whose outcome will measure the political price of unpopular cuts in social welfare
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrats slumped to their worst result in 44 years in the western state of Saarland on Sunday as voters punished the party for its painful economic reforms.
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BERLIN : Voting got off to a slow start in a traditional stronghold of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD) which faced its last test at the ballot box this year.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder'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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NEO-Nazis and ex-communist parties were celebrating astonishing victories yesterday in Germany after voters continued to punish Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder for his unpopular economic reform program.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats lost local elections in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia but appeared to have halted their recent slide at the ballot box.
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The German Chanceller Gerhard Schroeder has affirmed his support for political reforms in Algeria during a speech in a German-Algerian conference in Algiers on Saturday, part of his itinerary in a brief state ...
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Local election results in Germany&#39;s most populous state indicate another setback for Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder - but the decline has slowed.
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BERLIN - Germanyâs governing Social Democrats avoided major losses in local elections Sunday in the countryâs most populous state, while the conservative opposition lost votes but stayed well ahead in a traditional stronghold for Chancellor Gerhard
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BERLIN : Germany&#39;s two main political parties wound up the losers in local elections at the weekend but Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrats (SPD) have taken heart by avoiding a new rout.
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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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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 Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's ruling Social Democrats took a new beating at the polls as voters in the tiny state of Saarland sent them plunging to their worst showing there in four decades.
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BERLIN - Anger over Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s tough welfare and jobs reforms has resulted in a surge in support for Germany&#39;s former communists and radical right-wing parties in two key state elections with the rightist National Democratic Party (NPD
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NEO-NAZI parties made sweeping gains in vital regional elections in Germany last night to further tarnish the countryâs image and plunge Chancellor Gerhard SchrÃ¶derâs ruling coalition party into fresh crisis.