German welfare rallies escalate
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Eastern Germany sees more mass protests over welfare cuts, with smaller rallies in western cities.
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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 ...
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Gains for a far-right party in a weekend  regional election are a wake-up call for Germany's ruling  coalition under Chancellor Angela Merkel, media said on Monday.
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Germany's state governments will this week ask parliament for the freedom to further extend shop-opening hours, long seen as one of the most visible symbols of the heavy regulation of the country's economy.
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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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Parties on the far right and left made gains in two state elections Sunday in Germany, with voters delivering a rebuke to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrats as he tries to rein in German welfare programs.
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More striking German civil servants held rallies Tuesday to press for higher wages amid a growing tax evasion scandal that could give labour militants a tailor-made issue to back up their demands.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s party has vowed again to stick to its hated economic reforms despite Sunday&#39;s election rout in the state of Saarland where the far-right National Democratic Party emerged as the strongest gainer.
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HANOVER, Germany - Several thousand Volkswagen AG workers took to the streets Tuesday to press their demand for wage increases and pay guarantees as the automaker prepared to resume pay negotiations with Germany&#39;s biggest industrial union.
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Germany's sweeping welfare reforms went into effect without a hitch Monday as labor offices cut payments for a million jobless and qualifying tests got tougher.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel has joined a growing movement to criminalize forced marriages in Germany, which is growing less tolerant of practices among Muslim immigrants that clash with the nation's liberal social values.
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State elections in the former East Germany are expected to see a resurgence by far right parties.
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The number of people looking for work in Germany, the biggest eurozone economy, rose to its highest level in seven years as the bad weather and sluggish growth caused dole queues to swell at the end of last year, official data showed.
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Protesters were expected to hit the streets in more than 30 German cities today, two days after a sweeping reform of welfare payments aimed to cut long-term unemployment went into effect.
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Voters in two east German states angry over high unemployment handed a rebuke Sunday to Germany's two biggest parties, giving big gains to far right and former Communist groups, television projections showed.
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THE German government last week sent a strong message of solidarity to Zimbabweans struggling for democracy.
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Germany's long-term unemployed are looking for ways to cut their outgoings as they brace for the introduction of reforms on Saturday that will slash the welfare payments of many.