Sentences with phrase «former spd»
Since 2004, support for the liberal Free Democratic Party has surged at the expense of Merkel's party while the far - left Linke is attracting the votes of around a third of former SPD supporters.
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A key point of difference between Merkel's Christian Democrats and the SPD is that the latter wants car - makers to have quotas for the production of electric vehicles, whereas the former see this as too difficult to put into practice.
The SPD's Olaf Scholz, Hamburg's former mayor, has been appointed Germany's new finance minister.
Although one of the key players — Martin Schulz, a former president of the parliament — has returned to Germany to head up the SPD's campaign for chancellor, his influence is still felt and may be crucial after the German elections in September.
Mandelson told Gordon Brown in the run up to the pre-budget report last December that Britain should follow the example of the former German SPD / CDU grand coalition which opted for a deferred rise in VAT.
Julianne Smith, of the Centre for New American Security, said Mrs Merkel is going to sorely miss her former grand coalition with the SPD.
Germany's former Social Democratic (SPD)- Green Party coalition government supported the Iraq war for oil.