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Its two ministers are lightweight, unlike such previous stalwarts as Franz Josef Strauss and Theo Waigel.
ECONOMIST: Bavarian politics
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Five years after taking office, Mr Stoiber has emerged well and truly from the huge shadow of his legendary predecesor-but-one, Franz Josef Strauss.
ECONOMIST: Germany��s election
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If the first grand coalition was a partial success, it was mainly because Karl Schiller, the SPD economics minister, and Franz Josef Strauss, the CSU finance minister, got along well.
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JDS's Josef Strauss, Mr Ackerman is no techno-visionary.
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