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	Saarland - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Saarland is one of the 16 states of Germany.
		The state borders France (département of the Moselle) in the south and west, Luxembourg in the west and Rheinland-Pfalz in the north and the east.
		The Saarland's reunification with the Federal Republic of Germany was sometimes referred to as the kleine Wiedervereinigung ('minor reunification', as opposed to the post-cold war reabsorption of the DDR).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Saarland (1262 words)

	Saarland: impressions and themes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In Saarland, all Germans as defined in article 116 of the constitution have the right to vote if they have reached the age of 18 by election day and are eligible to stand for office.
		2004, the Saarland state parliament has four party factions: the faction of the CDU with 27 representatives, the faction of the SPD with 18 representatives, the faction of the Grüne 3 representatives and the faction of the FDP 3 representatives.
		The presidium decides on the internal affairs of the state parliament, particularly the draft of the budget plan for the parliament, to the extent that this power is not reserved for the president.
	www.english.saarland.de /8856_8947.htm (286 words)

	Saarland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In both area and population it is the smallest of the German Flächenländer ("area states"), i.e., those that are not City States.
		An official reason for that was given by the United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes in a speech [1] in 1946 as The United States does not feel that it can deny to France, which has been invaded three times by Germany in 70 years, its claim to the Saar territory.
		The Saarland's reunification with the Federal Republic of Germany was sometimes referred to as the kleine Wiedervereinigung ('small reunification', as opposed to the post-cold war reabsorption of the GDR).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saarland (1464 words)

	Saxony - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Free State of Saxony (German: Freistaat Sachsen; Sorbian: Swobodny Stata Sakska) is at a land area of 18,413 km² and a population of 4.3 million the tenth-largest in area and sixth-largest in population among Germany's sixteen Federal States.
		Saxony borders, from the east and clockwise, on Poland, the Czech Republic and the German states of Bavaria, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg.
		After 1918 Saxony was a state in the Weimar Republic and was the scene of Gustav Stresemann's overthrow of the KPD/SPD led government in 1923, during the Nazi era and under Soviet occupation.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Saxony (1419 words)

	Wikinfo \| Politics of Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The last election was held on September 18, 2005, the new (16th) Bundestag is due to convene by mid-October.
		In September 2004 elections were held in the states of Saarland, Brandenburg and Saxony.
		After success in the state election for Saxonia, the alliance between the far right parties National Democratic Party and Deutsche Volksunion (DVU), which planed to leapfrog the "five-percent hurdle" on a common party ticket was another media issue.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Politics_of_Germany (2728 words)

	Category:2004 elections - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	State elections in the Saarland: support for Germany's SPD plummets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the states of former East Germany, tens of thousands have taken to the streets on a weekly basis to oppose the Hartz IV measures aimed at rolling back the German welfare and social state.
		Given its vote total in the Saarland, it is expected that the NPD will obtain enough votes in the Saxony state elections later this month to enter a state parliament for the first time since 1968.
		According to election analysts, 10 percent of workers and 14 percent of the unemployed in the region voted for the NPD.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/sep2004/saar-s10_prn.shtml (1835 words)

	Home > Pleasanton, CA, California Yellow Pages, Classifieds, Real Estate, Business, Schools, Library and Jobs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		election and election results in Germany, including elections to the Federal Diet (the lower house of the federal parliament), the Landtage of the various states, and local elections.
		On 18 March 1990 the first and only free elections in the history of the GDR were held, producing a government whose major mandate was to negotiate an end to itself and its state.
		From the unification of Germany under Emperor Wilhelm I in 1871 to the Nazi accession to power and the abolishment of elections following the Enabling Act of 1933, elections were held to the German Reichstag or "Imperial Assembly", which supplanted its namesake, the Reichstag of the Norddeutscher Bund.
	www.pleasantoncaus.com /profile/Elections_in_Germany (691 words)

	Ruling party routed in German state vote \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		BERLIN – German voters handed Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder a stinging defeat in elections yesterday in the small western state of Saarland, reflecting public anger over his drive to cut into the country's cherished network of social programs.
		The Christian Democrats, in power in the state for the past five years, improved yesterday to 48.5 percent from 45.5 percent in the last election and retained control of the statehouse, the projections said.
		It was just the latest in a series of state election defeats for the Social Democrats since Schroeder won re-election two years ago.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040906/news_1n6germany.html (338 words)

	FirstCoast News.com - Print Article
		Schroeder's Social Democrats slumped to about 30 percent of the vote for the state legislature from 44.4 percent in the last election in 1999, according to projections by both German public television channels based on exit polls.
		The Christian Democrats, in power in the state for the last five years, improved to 48.5 percent from 45.5 percent in the last election and retained control of the statehouse, the projections said.
		Saarland is the home of Oskar Lafontaine, who quit as Social Democratic party leader and finance minister in 1999 after a power struggle with Schroeder and remains his political nemesis.
	www.firstcoastnews.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=23873 (519 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Schroeder's party routed in German vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's party was routed in elections Sunday in the small western state of Saarland, where public anger over his cuts in social programs also boosted a small far-right party that benefited from the national mood of protest.
		BERLIN --Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's party was routed in elections Sunday in the small western state of Saarland, where public anger over his cuts in social programs also boosted a small far-right party that benefited from the national mood of protest.
		Though Schroeder avoided campaigning in Saarland, it was just the latest in a series of state election defeats for the Social Democrats since he won re-election two years ago.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/09/05/schroeders_party_routed_in_german_vote?mode=PF (531 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Schroeder punished in state poll
		In the European elections in June, the SPD suffered its worst result in decades.
		Saarland, with its coalmining past, was an SPD stronghold until 1999.
		The SPD state leader, Heiko Maas, conceded the result was a "clear and bitter defeat", but party officials insisted there was no going back on the government's economic programme.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/3629488.stm (408 words)

	German ruling party slumps to new defeat in state election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Germans usually send warnings to the federal government during elections in the 16 states, and Saarland was the site of the first of four polls this month likely to turn protest voices into votes against Schroeder.
		Saarland has only three of 69 seats in the Bundesrat upper house of parliament, where states are represented based on their populations.
		On September 19, the eastern states of Brandenburg and Saxony hold elections, where voters are likely to turn against the SPD in numbers and toward the former communist Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS).
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1208035/posts (992 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Saarland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		} Saarland is one of the 16 states of Germany.
		History After World War II {{mainSaar (protectorate)}} After World War II the Saarland came under French administration again, as the Saar Protectorate.
		An official reason for that was given by the United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes in a speech http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/ga4-460906.htm in 1946 as The United States does not feel that it can deny to France, which has been invaded three times by Germany in 70 years, its claim to the Saar territory.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Saarland (1481 words)

	Schroeder's SPD slumps to 30 pct in Saarland poll, CDU retains control UPDATE
		The smaller Greens are projected to enter the state parliament with 5.7 pct and the pro-business Free Democrats have won 5.5 pct.
		Saarland's elections came after mass demonstrations over the Schroeder government's planned cuts to jobless benefits.
		Schroeder's only comfort is that the Saarland is a tiny state with just 818,000 voters and a troubled legacy of coal and steel tucked along the borders of France and Luxembourg.
	www.advfn.com /news_schroeder-s-spd-slumps-to-30-pct-in-saarland-poll--cdu-retains-control-update_8657987.html (678 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / German leader: Program cuts will continue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Schroeder's Social Democrats lost 45 percent of their voter support Sunday in the small western state of Saarland, while the conservative Christian Democrats -- the main opposition party at the national level -- retained control of the local legislature and the governor's post.
		In Sunday's vote, support for the Social Democrats plunged to 30.8 percent from 44.4 percent in the last Saarland election in 1999, the party's worst showing in the state since 1960.
		The centrist, pro-business Free Democrats re-entered the Saarland state parliament after a 10-year absence, just crossing the 5 percent hurdle for parliamentary seats.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/09/06/german_leader_program_cuts_will_continue (497 words)

	Excerpts: Anti-Semitism in Europe Increases in Recent Years - US Department of State
		The United States is frequently included as a target of such attacks, which often assert that U.S. foreign policy is made in Israel or that Jews control the media and financial markets in the United States and the rest of the world.
		The State Department's instructions to U.S. Embassies for the 2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices explicitly required them to describe acts of violence against Jews and Jewish properties, as well as actions governments are taking to prevent this form of bigotry and prejudice.
		Jewish leaders state that there was a growing tendency in the country to mix anti-Israeli sentiment with acts of anti-Semitism, as the general public and media often fail to distinguish between criticism of Israeli policy and anti-Semitic rhetoric.
	usinfo.state.gov /eur/Archive/2005/Jan/05-93928.html?chanlid=eur (18787 words)

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		In an election dominated by discontent over Mr Schröder's programme to reform the German economy, the Social Democrats polled only 30.5 per cent of the vote compared to the conservatives' 48 per cent.
		Heiko Maas, Saarland's Social Democrat challenger, said: "The party is facing an uphill battle throughout Germany because of the government's reform programme." Social Democrat Party officials in Saarland admitted the decision by Mr Schröder's former left-wing Finance Minister, Oskar Lafontaine, to campaign for the party during the regional election had further damaged its chances.
		The Saarland poll result mirrored the Social Democrats' unpopularity across Germany where opinion polls published at the weekend gave the party 26 per cent of the vote compared with 46 per cent for the opposition Christian Democrats.
	courses.wcupa.edu /rbove/eco343/040Compecon/Germany/040906schroeder.txt (327 words)

	Report on Global Anti-Semitism
		At their December 2004 meeting in Sofia, OSCE Foreign Ministers welcomed the Chair-in-Office's decision to appoint three special representatives for tolerance issues, including a special representative for anti-Semitism, to work with member states on implementing specific commitments to fight anti-Semitism.
		The Jewish community stated that there were fewer acts of vandalism in Jewish cemeteries than in 2003, attributed most of the incidents to youths, and did not consider the incidents anti-Semitic.
		Many in the Jewish community stated that conditions for Jewish persons in the country had improved, primarily because there was no longer any official "state-sponsored" anti-Semitism; however, anti-Semitic incidents against individuals and institutions continued to occur and violence was used during these attacks with increasing frequency.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/40258.htm (17893 words)

	kendrak's attack: November 2004 Archives
		as many liberals are further outraged by the outcome of the election, like how bush declares he has a mandate, people are trying to figure out why so much of this country loves the new ultra conservative fundamentalist right.
		maybe, if the blue states adopt the federalism that the republicans claim to want, they can use the money to pay for welfare and farming subsudies in the midwest and spend it on welfare and other social programmes in their own state.
		i'll hope that the election was fair, and that bush realises he doesn't have a mandate, and half the country wanted him out.
	www.kendrak.com /blog/archives/2004_11.html (2263 words)

	Germany: Who is responsible for the increased vote for the extreme right? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The NPD, which never previously stood candidates in the Saarland, garnered 4 percent of the vote and only narrowly missed the 5 percent hurdle that would have enabled it to send deputies to the state legislature.
		In Saarbruecken, the state capital of the Saarland, accusations had already begun to fly on the evening of the election.
		Even before the elections in the Saarland, it was claimed that the extreme right had infiltrated the protests and was now a motivating force behind them.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/sep2004/npd-s14_prn.shtml (1008 words)

	Schroeder rules out cuts U-turn / World / Home - Morning Star
		CRITICS of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's cuts in social programmes urged him to reverse the unpopular measures yesterday after his party was routed in a German state election, but he insisted that there can be no turning back.
		Mr Schroeder's Social Democrats lost 45 per cent of their voter support on Sunday in the small western state of Saarland, while the conservative Christian Democrats, the main opposition party at the national level, retained control of the local legislature and the governor's post.
		Saarland state Social Democratic MP Otmar Schreiner called on the government to reverse a host of cutbacks in healthcare, jobless benefits and other social programs begun by Schroeder last year.
	www.morningstaronline.co.uk /index2.php/ex/layout/set/print/content/view/full/758 (405 words)

	European Elections in Germany: SPD stumbling from defeat to defeat
		However, the Euro election results have also revealed that there is not a swing from the SPD towards the CDU/CSU since the CDs also lost 1.7 million votes in comparison with the last Euro elections in 1999.
		Their defeat in the 2002 Bundestag election and manoeuvres by the party apparatus to oust the hard left had caused a major crisis and the defection of many honest left-wingers.
		At regional conferences and meetings in Hessen, the Saarland, and Hamburg last weekend, the main demand was for a change in course in favour of working people and a brake on all further anti-working class legislation in the context of Schröder's "Agenda 2010".
	www.marxist.com /Europe/germany_euroelect0604.html (1606 words)

	Article
		The conservative Christian Democrat (CDU) state premier, Peter MÃ¼ller, was re-elected by a landslide in the small state of Saarland on the French border.
		The closely watched poll was the first in a series of regional elections in which Germans are expected to make clear their discontent with the government.
		Mr Schröder has failed to make good on election promises to cut high unemployment, and even the mild economic recovery expected this year seems to be faltering.
	www.rantburg.com /poparticle.php?ID=42493&D=2004-09-06&HC=2 (606 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Schroeder called for a general election to be moved forward to late this year, adding that the “bitter defeat” in NRW “throws into question the political basis for the continuation of our work” at a time when Germany was in the process of wide-ranging reforms.
		During the election campaign, Christian Democrats leader in NRW Juergen Ruettgers said he would swiftly ban hijab from public schools in Germany’s most populated state, with 13 million.
		The state of Hessen also made amendments to its school laws, banning teachers from wearing any symbols of religious or political nature while allowing them a limited right to put on Christian or western symbols.
	www.al-amana.org /article.php?id=1268 (694 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Schroeder, who plans to stand for a third term in 2006 elections, cut payments to the unemployed by about 2.5 billion euros ($3 billion) a year, reduced workers' protection against being fired and curbed health-care benefits in an attempt to rein in the budget deficit and spur growth in Europe's largest economy.
		The first of this month's votes is on Sunday in Saarland, Germany's second smallest state by population, on the border with France.
		Two elections to regional legislatures are scheduled for Sept. 19 in Brandenburg, eastern Germany's largest state by land mass, and Saxony, the most populous in the east, where the weekly protests against welfare cuts have drawn the biggest crowds.
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	Schroeder Faces Left-Wing Revolt Over Reform
		Schroeder’s Social Democrats (SPD) were crushed in Bavarian state elections by the Christian Social Union (CSU) which won 60.7 percent of the vote compared with an appalling 19.6 percent for the SPD.
		Lafontaine’s decision on a Saarland candidacy is expected by early November — shortly before an SPD party convention which may turn into a showdown between Schroeder’s reformist bloc and the party’s left-wingers.
		Schroeder’s hope is that his tax cuts and reforms will kick in from next year fueling growth of at least 1.5 percent in 2004 and an even stronger economy in 2005 thus positioning him for a third election victory in 2006.
	www.arabnews.com /?page=7§ion=0&article=32492&d=24&m=9&y=2003 (653 words)

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