German politicians should fight right-wing extremism instead of bickering over its causes, a German Jewish official said. Paul Spiegel made his statement over the weekend after Edmund Stoiber, head of the Bavarian Christian Social Union, blamed the economic policies of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of the Social Democratic Party for increasing right-wing extremism.
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