Just how strong a contender is Schulz? / What policies will SPD candidate Schulz pursue?

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The Debates feature from Euro|Topics offers English (+ French and German) translations of a selections of articles in European news sources on this topic.

Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks).Martin Schulz was elected leader of the Social Democrats (SPD) with 100% of the vote on the 19 March 2017. The party then went on to vote unanimously for him to be its candidate for chancellor in the federal election on the 24 September 2017. But despite all the euphoria surrounding Schulz commentators aren't completely convinced he will be able to beat Merkel.

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ESO: Background information: Schulz – the SPD candidate for the position of chancellor http://www.europeansources.info/record/schulz-the-spd-candidate-for-the-position-of-chancellor/
Deutsche Welle, 19.03.17: Opinion: After the euphoria, it's showtime for Schulz http://dw.com/p/2ZVsO
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The Guardian, 19.03.17: Germany's SPD elects Martin Schulz as leader to challenge Merkel https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/19/martin-schulz-germany-spd-elects-leader-challenge-merkel
Deutsche Welle, 26.03.17: Merkel's challenger Martin Schulz lays out vision for chancellery http://dw.com/p/2ZxcJ
EurActiv, 12.04.17: ‘Chancellor Schulz’ will maintain austerity, won’t rule out Grexit http://www.euractiv.com/section/elections/news/chancellor-schulz-will-maintain-austerity-wont-rule-out-grexit/
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