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Across Europe, Left-Leaning Parties See Clout Faltering

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WIth governments of conservative parties in power in France, Germany and Italy, taking steps to help industries and companies affected by the financial crisis, and working to protect jobs, these parties have shelved their market oriented reforms and are enacting policies that protect workers. As a result they are becoming stronger and the socialists and social democratic parties are looking weaker, especially when these parties in France and Germany and Italy have fractured into many groups. Another reason the conservative parties are popular is that by preserving and strengthening the social safety net for health care and by strengthening infrastructure and public transport investment, and exercizing good judgement and pragmatic and unideological based policy in a global economy facing unanticipated problems, they have come to be seen as reliable.

How Ms. Merkel is defining German goals and programs during the global economic and financial crisis of 2008-2009.

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Merkel has quietly established her own approach and style of governing, less on rhetoric, and more on substance and social market principles that are popular in Germany. Her popularity goes far beyond that of the CDU, and she has defined new positions for the CDU, from aiding workers, promoting daycare, fighting for environmental goals, and bringing a new perspective on immigration. The result is a distinctly German approach to the crisis based on German conditions and preferences.

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