German Culture and Politics


Thursday, August 03, 2006

Merkel ally says capitalist image must go

A senior member of chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union urged the party to shed its "capitalist" image yesterday, underscoring the deteriorating relationship between the German government and business.

"The CDU is not a capitalist party," Jürgen Rüttgers, state premier of North Rhine-Westphalia and one of the party's four deputy chairmen, told Stern weekly: "It is a community of values that is not just rooted in materialism."

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