German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday urged her squabbling government to fall in line to sell austerity measures, a day after thousands of skeptical Germans protested the cuts in demonstrations that injured 15 police officers.
All of the center-right coalition should now stand up for the decision to pass the package and explain the measures to their voters, Merkel told the Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag.
"We can only gain reliability and trust in the citizen's opinion if we stand up for our own decisions," she was quoted as saying.
Merkel on Monday announced plans to trim the country's budget by some (EURO)80 billion ($97 billion) by …
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