UPDATE (9/22) Election results are here

Germany goes to the polls on Sunday, September 22. Between now and then I'll try to post items of interest from the German press that might not otherwise make it into the U.S. media.

The outcome is still up in the air. The latest poll, as reported in Die Welt, shows the center-right coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), led by Edmund Stoiber, to have a slim lead, with 37.3% for the Union, and 10.1% for their likely junior partner, the Free Democrats (FDP). The incumbent Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SDP) are at 37%, their current partner, the Greens, with 7.2%, and the former East German Communists, the PDS at 4.4%. Just last week the Social Democrats held a slim lead.

Meanwhile, FDP vice-chair Juergen Moellemann is breaking new ground in post-war German anti-Semitism