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Nobody asked the German people if they wanted the euro. Now, almost 15 years after Europe introduced its common currency, a new political party has emerged to campaign for a return to the deutsche mark.
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Germany’s top trade unionist, Michael Sommer, looked out on a May Day crowd of workers and told them that a proposed labor flexibility plan wouldn’t create a single job.
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The co-leader of Germany’s Greens, Juergen Trittin, sharpened his party’s attack on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, saying policy differences put them on “collision course” in federal elections this fall.
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Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said the country’s system to spur clean-energy generation needs to change, including reducing green subsidies paid by consumers, to ensure gas-fired plants are able to operate at a profit.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her disappointment at Uli Hoeness, the president of Bayern Munich soccer team, as Germany’s opposition seized on a probe into allegations that he evaded taxes.
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Germany’s largest cities are preparing to tighten rent regulations as they take advantage of a new federal law aimed at curbing the housing boom.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she wants to govern for a full term in a continued coalition with the market-liberal Free Democratic Party if she wins federal elections in five months.
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German lawmakers approved a rescue for Cyprus as Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned that refusing aid to a fifth crisis-ravaged state risked triggering a sovereign default and contagion to other euro nations.
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German opposition candidate Peer Steinbrueck’s drive to become chancellor is going into reverse.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel’s sweeping plan to transform Germany into a green-energy giant almost destroyed Nordseewerke GmbH, one of the country’s leading makers of wind-turbine foundations.
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