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I'd say the coalition is just "center" with the CDU being center-right and the SPD being center-left that seems like a good conclusion..

How did the SPD move to the right? By forming a coalition with the CDU? That claim sounds very dubious to me..

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The SPD started moving to the right shortly after Schröder was elected chancellor. Their policies curbed the welfare system in a "only Nixon could go to China manner".

Schröder is long gone and especially the current SPD seems a good distance from Schröder's politics.

I see very much a continuity of the Agenda 2010 attitude within the party.

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