The CDU and CSU must arrest the economic slide even as they juggle the responsibilities of the government.

基民盟和基社盟必须在处理政府职责的同时阻止经济下滑。

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In a test vote of CDU and CSU deputies yesterday, 11 opposed expanding the EFSF and two abstained (another dissident did not show up).

在昨天CDU和CSU的代表模拟投票中，有11人反对扩展EFSF，两人弃权(还有一位反对者没有出席)。

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The CDU-CSU alliance opposed the full tax cut on the grounds that Germany could not afford it.

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Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, from Mrs Merkel's conservative CDU-CSU alliance, criticised the pledges, saying they were short of detail.

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"We have decided - the CDU-CSU faction in the Bundestag - that there would be no more expansion at all, " he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.

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