Cutting Unemployment Top Priority for Merkel
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German Chancellor-designate Angela Merkel said that cutting unemployment and Germany’s budget deficit would be her priorities as leader. She added that a month of hard work would be needed to get a new government in place.
Germany’s persistently high jobless rate helped bring down outgoing Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s center-left coalition in last month’s parliamentary elections.
Merkel told Der Spiegel in an interview that “unemployment must fall in this parliamentary term.”
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