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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande are looking for common ground on how to fix Europe’s economy as recession and soaring youth unemployment test the partnership at the euro’s core.
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Germany’s Greens party backed a campaign platform of tax increases that members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic bloc said rules out a coalition after national elections in September.
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The political heirs to a decade-old strategy that turned Germany into the economic powerhouse of Europe risk squandering the gains.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel may be risking her 2013 bid for a third term with a bet on expanding the effort to save the euro.
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German opposition candidate Peer Steinbrueck’s drive to become chancellor is going into reverse.
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Europe’s financial crisis is helping Dutch politician Geert Wilders drill his anti-euro, anti-Islamic platform deeper into the mainstream.
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Support for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition rose to the highest level since January 2010 in a weekly Forsa poll, as her junior partner showed signs of recovery less than six months before German national elections.
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German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg quit amid allegations that he plagiarized passages of his doctoral thesis, depriving Chancellor Angela Merkel of her most popular Cabinet member in an election year.
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On election night in September 2009, Angela Merkel told her Christian Democrats they achieved “something fantastic” by ousting the Social Democrats from Germany’s governing coalition for the first time since 1998.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union may adopt a motion at an annual party congress next week to allow euro members to exit the currency area, a senior CDU lawmaker said.
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