Edmund Stoiber, Christian Social (CSU) Bavarian State Prime Minister
and conservative challenger to German Chancellor Schroeder in the
upcoming general election on September 22 smiles during a news
conference in Berlin February 8, 2002. Stoiber and the deputy chairman
of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Christian Wulff presented
suggestions by the CDU and CSU to mobilize Germany's economic growth.
REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

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