It is not elated by the recovery of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), the junior partner in her coalition.
That softens opposition from the Free Democratic Party, the CDU's pro-business coalition partner.
One was a surprise defeat for the pro-business Free Democratic Party, making it the sixth out of six state elections where it has lost heavily.
In Germany's election in September, the issue poses the greatest threat to the Free Democratic Party, Merkel's junior coalition partner which has a pro-business platform.
Liberals are defecting in droves to the opposition Free Democratic Party.
The Social Democratic foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, will go, but his successor, almost certainly Guido Westerwelle of the Free Democratic Party, has not yet arrived.
Frank Schaeffler, a German member of parliament in the Free Democratic Party, has previously advocated the sale of uninhabited Greek islands to fund creditor repayments.
The liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), the junior partner in her coalition government, is against a rescue, as are many politicians from her own Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
One answer, Mrs Lagarde argues, would be to cut taxes, an idea supposedly favoured by Germany's coalition government, which combines Mrs Merkel's Christian Democratic Union with the Free Democratic Party.
Christa Markwalder, a lawmaker from the pro-business Free Democratic Party, said she didn't think passage of the initiative would lead to an exodus of companies from Switzerland but would attract attention from other countries studying corporate-governance policies.
Her coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party, has lost domestic support, so she will need to convince the more liberal members of the leading parties, particularly the Green Party and the Social Democrats, that the plan for a more powerful European Financial Stability Facility is the right choice for Germany.
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That means boosting productivity through labour-market reform, immigration policies and free trade, none of which the ruling Democratic Party of Japan has been keen on so far.
Senator Clinton, like her opponent in the Democratic Party, Senator Barack Obama opposes the free-trade agreement.
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Bill Clinton, before he became president, helped to shift the Democratic Party towards an appreciation of business and free trade.
For all his faults, Bill Clinton shifted the Democratic Party's centre of gravity on free trade, and law and order.
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Thanks in large part to the character of the Czechoslovak interim government, the balloting there has shaped up as genuinely free and fair, with several democratic groups competing amongst themselves and with the surviving communist party.
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This great economic success led to the rise of the Christian Democratic Party, which reaffirmed the spiritual roots of Europe, but grafted onto them a free-market economic order.
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