This is the BBC and of course this not their headline because that would require honesty and intellectual coherence.
Early results from elections to the European Union parliament show gains for opposition parties across Europe. Governing parties in Germany, France and Poland have suffered dramatic losses, while many Euro-sceptic parties have performed well at the polls.
Davids Medienkritik sez Schroeder and the SPD in general "crashed."The SPD and Chancellor Schroeder are on their way out. Today, Sunday, June 13, the Socialists registered their worst election loss in postwar history, dropping at least 7 percentage points to a projected 22%. The conservative Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) took advantage of the Socialist's collapse to claim two times as many votes with a projected 45% result, giving them the largest number of seats from Germany's 99 designated seats in the European parliament. |
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