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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9073

23 November 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/germany
Wilfried Martens and Hans-Gert Pottering welcome election of Germany's new Chancellor, Angela Merkel

Brussels, 22/11/2005 (Agence Europe) - On 22 November, Angela Merkel became the first woman Chancellor of Germany, confirmed in her post by a Bundestag vote of 397 to 202 (including some four dozen MPs from parties in the big coalition, the CDU/CSU and SPD), with 12 abstentions. A majority of 308 was required. Following a meeting with Luxembourg prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker in Berlin on Monday and a visit to Paris on Wednesday morning, on Wednesday afternoon, Angela Merkel will travel...

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