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| | Guardian | Schröder faces day of reckoning |
 | | Loyalists saw Agenda 2010 as an assault on Germany's cherished welfare state and demanded the right to vote on a project many feel could change the direction of the party. |
 | | It intends to call, and win, separate votes on particularly unpopular aspects of Agenda 2010, or contrive a vote to endorse something that runs contrary to the whole spirit of the programme. |
 | | The International Monetary Fund, an institution long associated with just the sort of fiscal discipline that Agenda 2010 represents, astonished many in Germany this month by arguing that the country's most serious economic problems were not now on the supply side, as assumed by the Schröder plan, but on the demand side. |
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