Merkel Swings Into 2013 Election Mode Evoking Crisis, China
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel swung into campaign mode with a message of cutting debt, bolstering energy security and a jab at her Social Democratic challengers.
Merkel used separate events in the south and west of the country yesterday to hone her stump speech one year out from federal elections that she has said will be fought on the euro-area crisis that spread from Greece and on Germany’s shift away from nuclear power to renewable energies. Due in the fall of 2013, the vote will determine whether Germany’s first woman chancellor and its first from the former communist east secures a third term.