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Germany Backs Aid Plan for Greece
-Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany managed to keep her strategy for attacking Greece's debt problems on track with a victory in Parliament Monday, but was able to win the vote only with the help of opposition parties.
Without votes from the Social Democrats and the Green Party, Mrs. Merkel's would not have received the backing she needed from the Bundestag to sign off on the $175 billion Greek rescue package when she travels to Brussels for the summit of European leaders on Thursday and Friday.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/world/europe/germany-backs-aid-plan-for-greece.xml