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The result comes after Greek voters said No to austerity one week ago (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

Merkel suffers major defeat in German state vote

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) suffered a bitter defeat in a key regional election Sunday (13 May), in a result likely to make it more difficult for Berlin to continue to push austerity-only measures at the EU level.

Preliminary results for the parliamentary election in North Rhine Westphalia - the country's most populous state - showed that the centre-right CDU received 26.3 percent of the votes, roundly beaten by the Social Democrats who scooped 39....

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The result comes after Greek voters said No to austerity one week ago (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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