Germany's center-left Social Democrats, struggling to revive their flagging election campaign, will present a "Germany Plan" on Monday to eradicate unemployment by 2020 by promoting green technology. Rival parties say it's a completely unrealistic pledge that smacks of desperation. German Deputy Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier presenting his election team last week. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) candidate to become chancellor in the Sept. 27 election, will make a fresh attempt to revive his campaign on Monday by pledging to create 4 million jobs and create full employment by 2020. Steinmeier, whose center-left party is trailing Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives by more than 10 points less than eight weeks before the election, will present his "Germany Plan" on Monday evening. SPIEGEL has seen the 67-page document which outlines plans to create 2 million jobs in industry through improved efficiency in the consumption of energy and raw materials and by promoting green technologies such as electrically-powered cars.
Germany's center-left Social Democrats, struggling to revive their flagging election campaign, will present a "Germany Plan" on Monday to eradicate unemployment by 2020 by promoting green technology. Rival parties say it's a completely unrealistic pledge that smacks of desperation.
German Deputy Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier presenting his election team last week. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) candidate to become chancellor in the Sept. 27 election, will make a fresh attempt to revive his campaign on Monday by pledging to create 4 million jobs and create full employment by 2020.
Steinmeier, whose center-left party is trailing Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives by more than 10 points less than eight weeks before the election, will present his "Germany Plan" on Monday evening.
SPIEGEL has seen the 67-page document which outlines plans to create 2 million jobs in industry through improved efficiency in the consumption of energy and raw materials and by promoting green technologies such as electrically-powered cars.
