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East Coker East Coker is a village in Yeovil.
East Hancock East Hancock is a residential neighbourhood in [1].
East of England East of England is one of the 2001 census was 5,388,140.
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 Germany - Simple English Wikipedia
To the east of Germany are the countries Poland and the Czech Republic.
Christianity is the biggest religion; Protestants are 38% of the people and Catholics are 34% of the people (most of the Protestants are in the north, and most of the Catholics are in the south).
Germany was where many important people in culture were born: composers such as Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, and Wagner; poets such as Goethe and Schiller; philosophers including Kant, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche; and scientists including Einstein, Born and Planck.
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 Christian Democratic Union (Germany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Election placard of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany for the German federal election, 2005.
Opponents of the CDU are the social democratic SPD, the post-communist Left Party/PDS and the left-wing environmentalist Bündnis'90/Die Grünen.
The female proportion is higher in the new East Germany states with 29.2 percent compared to the former states in West Germany with 24.8 percent.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christian_Democratic_Union   (1260 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Christian Democratic Union of Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD – Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands) is one of the oldest political parties of Germany still in existence and also one of the oldest and largest in the world, celebrating its 140th anniversary in 2003.
The Eifel is a hilly region in Germany.
Fulda is a Kreis (district) in the north-east of Hesse, Germany.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Christian-Democratic-Union-of-Germany   (4052 words)

  
 Christian Democratic Union of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU - Christlich-Demokratische Union) is a political party in Germany, founded after World War II by Konrad Adenauer, among others.
A moderate Christian party, the CDU is the biggest conservative political party in Germany.
Opponents of the CDU are the social democratic SPD, the ex-communist PDS and the environmentalist Bündnis'90/Die Grünen.
www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Christian-Democratic_Union_of_Germany   (820 words)

  
 Germany: the career of Christian Democratic Union leader Angela Merkel Part 2: From Kohl's "little girl" to ...
Moreover, she called for the re-establishment of schools awarding pupils marks for general behaviour and diligence, and seriously proposed the introduction of “ethnology” as a subject to be taught in schools as a means of opposing racist violence.
Merkel failed in her attempt to secure the Union’s chancellor candidacy in the 2002 federal elections, when she was beaten by Edmund Stoiber, head of the CSU and Bavarian state premier.
Even if the Christian Democrats should become the strongest party in the coming election, such a policy will lack any support from a majority of the population, and will inevitably meet with resistance—even from within her own party.
www.wsws.org /articles/2005/jul2005/cdu2-j09.shtml   (2714 words)

  
 Germany: the career of Christian Democratic Union leader Angela Merkel Part 1: East Germany--youth and political ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This is the first of a two-part article on the political career of Angela Merkel, leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and chancellor candidate of the "Union"--the conservative bloc of the CDU and Christian Social Union--in the federal elections expected to take place this September.
Despite all the differences between the political leaders in East and West Germany, there was a fundamental view they both shared with the church: a profound antipathy to any independent popular movement based on their fears of an uncontrollable revolutionary development of the working class.
Democratic Awakening was dissolved in August 1990 into the East German CDU, which itself was dissolved into the West German party following German reunification in October of that year.
www.wsws.org /articles/2005/jul2005/cdu1-j08.shtml   (2260 words)

  
 National Review: Christian parties: an oxymoron?
The defeat of Germany's Christian Democratic party in regional elections this year--following the resounding defeat of the Austrian People's Party last year--should be a signal to all Christian parties in Europe that it is time to re-think their positions and reformulate their programs.
The numbers in Rhineland-Palatinate were almost directly reversed from the numbers in the 1987 elections: the Social Democrats went from 38.8 to 44.8 per cent of the vote, and the Christian Democrats dropped from 45.1 per cent to 38.7 per cent.
Christian parties have an important role to play, yet they are not a boon to the churches.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n13_v43/ai_11073520   (818 words)

  
 Alliance for Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Alliance for Germany (German: Allianz für Deutschland) was an opposition coalition in East Germany.
It was formed in February 1990 to fight the Volkskammer elections.
It consisted of the Christian Democratic Union, Democratic Awakening and the German Social Union.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alliance_for_Germany   (110 words)

  
 National Front (East Germany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Front of Democratic Germany was a united front of political parties and mass organisations in East Germany.
It was controlled by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
It was assembled to stand in elections to the East German parliament, the Volkskammer.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Front_coalition   (78 words)

  
 Konrad Adenauer - An historical biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
After the war Germany was divided into zones of occupation that were to be under the control of prominent powers that had been militarily allied against Nazism.
Elections were held in Germany in 1949 as a result of which Adenauer became - at the age of seventy-three - Germany's first post war Chancellor.
As time passed Adenauer's policies, particularly in relation to the Communist east, began to seem less credible and the CDU party was unwilling to continue to support Adenauer as Chancellor - he was thus obliged to resign in 1963.
www.age-of-the-sage.org /historical/biography/konrad_adenauer.html   (467 words)

  
 The death of six-year-old Joseph Abdulla reveals dominance of extreme right in East Germany
The death of six-year-old Joseph Abdulla in the small East German town of Sebnitz is a warning.
Regardless of what the final circumstances of his death prove to be, this case shows how far the dominance of extremist rightwing gangs in East Germany has progressed—with the support of the state authorities and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Sebnitz had suffered damage and East Germany as a whole was being reviled, railed Biedenkopf.
www.wsws.org /articles/2000/dec2000/germ-d02.shtml   (1935 words)

  
 SI.com - Soccer - Former East Germans put 'Wessi' on defensive - Friday September 19, 2003 2:53PM
Joachim Streich, another former East German international, recalled several former countrymen who became leading stars in unified Germany, including Matthias Sammer, the captain of the German team that won the 1996 European title who is now the coach of Borussia Dortmund.
"In the DDR (East Germany), the collective was never a barrier for born leaders," he said.
Angela Merkl, the leader of the opposition Christian Democratic Union who was born in East Germany, said it would be wrong to put all former East Germans into the same basket and say "they have this collective mentality and cannot lead.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2003/soccer/09/19/bc.eu.spt.soc.germany.east.west.ap   (466 words)

  
 TIME Europe | Germany: Time for a Change | 4/3/2000
The scene was east germany in 1990, a chaotic moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall when an interim government was trying to steer the country from communism to democracy.
Merkel was born in Hamburg in West Germany, but her pastor father soon moved to the communist East, apparently more out of missionary zeal than affection for socialism.
Her lack of experience and the fact that she is not the party leader in the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, raise doubts that Merkel will be the party's candidate for Chancellor at the time of the next election in 2002.
www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/2000/0403/merkel.html   (965 words)

  
 Christian Democratic Union of Germany - Art History Online Reference and Guide
Opponents of the CDU are the social democratic SPD, the communist PDS and the environmentalist Bündnis'90/Die Grünen.
It was then that West Germany’s chancellor Kohl, with the strong support of the United States, called for the unification of Germany.
On October 3rd, 1990, the German Democratic Republic of East Germany and the Federal Republic of West Germany sign a unification treaty.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/CDU   (705 words)

  
 Christian Democratic Union --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
In 1990, with Helmut Kohl as chancellor, it oversaw the reunification of Germany.
It held power in the Federal Republic of Germany from the establishment of the West German republic in 1949 until 1969 and again from 1982 until 1998.
In 1980, the Democratic Party was a house that was divided among the Kennedy and Carter camps.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9360714   (839 words)

  
 A woman chancellor for Germany? Maybe - Europe - MSNBC.com
Angela Merkel, Christian Democratic Union's (CDU) top candidate for the upcoming general elections in Germany delivers a speech during an election campaign rally in Frankfurt on Thursday.
Merkel herself has repeatedly stressed that she does not want to be singled out as a representative of Germany's eastern states and says she cares for voters and their problems in all parts of the country.
But her gender — as well as her upbringing as a priest's daughter in eastern Germany, the region that feels Germany's economic woes to the greatest extent — could play an important role in the election race.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9352965/&&CE=3032091   (628 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Woman could be Germany's next chancellor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Angela Merkel, head of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), faces Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in elections on Sunday, perhaps the most important since German reunification in 1990.
As she grew up, Merkel "was very critical" of East Germany's communist system, says Gerd Langguth, author of a Merkel biography.
If Merkel wins, she is likely to try to return Germany to its traditional role as a peacemaker between France and the United States, says Jan-Friedrich Kallmorgen, director of Atlantic Initiative, a think tank in Berlin.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-09-12-merkel-germany_x.htm   (1011 words)

  
 VOA News - Germany Awaits a New Leader, and a New Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Her party, the Christian Democratic Union, narrowly won elections last month for the Bundestag, the German parliament.
The Christian Democrats and the Social Democratic Party of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder agreed Monday to form a coalition.
She became active in the democracy movement in East Germany in nineteen eighty-nine.
www.voanews.com /specialenglish/2005-10-15-voa1.cfm   (536 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the Communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact.
Germany's affluent and technologically powerful economy - the fifth largest in the world - has become one of the slowest growing economies in the euro zone.
Germany's aging population, combined with high unemployment, has pushed social security outlays to a level exceeding contributions from workers.
www.odci.gov /cia/publications/factbook/print/gm.html   (1411 words)

  
 Christian Democratic Party Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Christian Democratic Union of Germany - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Are great men also stupid?(Helmut Kohl, the most powerful man in Germany for 16 years, has ended his political career in scandal and disgrace) : An article from: New Statesman (1996)
Germany's general election: The end of an era?
Principles and programme of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (Material on political education)
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 CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC UNION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
in Italy: Cristiani Democratici Uniti, see Christian Democratic Union of Italy and Politics of Italy.
The Christian Democratic Union was an East German political party.
It was part of the national front with the Socialist Unity Party of Germany until 1989.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/CHRISTIAN+DEMOCRATIC+UNION   (343 words)

  
 Far right electoral success in Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Germany's Chancellor Helmut Kohl promised the east prosperity when he manipulated the annexation of former East Germany in 1990.
This is the best performance of an extreme right-wing party in Germany since World War II, in an election in which the voter turnout (70.4%) was more than 15% higher than in the last poll in 1994.
According to the Independent newspaper, east German politicians from the major parties are advising Kohl to make “necessary adjustments” in CDU campaign rhetoric before the September 27 general election.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/1998/316/316p26.htm   (1018 words)

  
 CNN - Germany Votes - Christian Democratic Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The conservative Christian Democratic Union and its sister party, the Christian Social Union, have been the dominant political forces in postwar Germany.
The CDU is led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who says that Germany's unprecedented post-World War II prosperity was possible only because of the CDU/CSU's solid, free-market policies.
The party reaffirms its commitment to European Union policies but wants stricter control of the Brussels-based administration and the shifting of more decision- making to EU countries and regions.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1998/09/germany/parties/cdu.html   (217 words)

  
 flag of Christian Democratic Union 1946-1990 (East Germany) flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Despite their political differences, both the West German CDU and the East German CDU used the same name and united with the German unification.
A blue flag with two Israel-like yellow stripes and the CDU symbol in center.
There also was a simplified variant without the dove and the ex oriente pax.
www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/de}drcdu.html   (149 words)

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