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As Germany has seen demographic change, Merkel remains popular among the baby boomers, the generation born from the time war II ended to the mid-1960s. Thirty years after reunification in 1990, the memories of war II are receding — but the East-West divide continues despite the pumping of cash into the erstwhile East by successive German governments. Unemployment figures are still higher within the new states as compared to the remainder of Germany. And a big percentage of the population (about 10%) thinks that the country should leave the ecu Union.
All these developments have had an impression on the political landscape. the normal two-and-a-half-party system of the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Socialist Union (CDU/CSU), SPD, and FDP has changed. The Greens have risen as a seriou...