Merkel rules out policy shift to the left

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Series Details 22.8.06
Publication Date 22/08/2006
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Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, crushed calls from her Christian Democratic Union, 21 August 2006, for a leftwards turn in the party's economic policies as it seeks to counter its flagging popularity. The debate within the CDU will reach its climax, 22 August 2006, as the party meets in Berlin to discuss a revision of its political platform, the first such revision since 1994.

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