German election

Features and Analysis

• The Merkel years

  Running the rule over the German chancellor's eight years in power

• The making of Merkel

  From humble roots to the world's most powerful woman

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• Driving test

  Why Germany is in Europe's driving seat but won't take wheel

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• Germany by numbers

  The country's key factors and challenges in graphics

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• German scenarios

  Could Merkel be dealt a blue joker on Sunday?

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• Left behind

  Angela Merkel's east German home town

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• Europe central

  Germany's role in fixing crisis key to election

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• More or less Merkel?

  Europeans sharply divided over what's best for them

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• Well engineered

  Why thousands want to train in Germany

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• Champagne ecologists?

  Germany's Greens divided over coalition with Merkel

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• Daunting task

  Social Democrat supporters struggle to predict victory

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• Bailout capital

  Contempt for rescue packages ignores Germany's own history

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• Solidarity sucks

  The party hoping to cut ties with euro weaklings

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