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Major news items in leading German newspapers

Xinhua, October 24, 2016 Adjust font size:

The following are the major news items in leading German newspapers on Monday.

Frankfurter Allgemeine

-- The chairman of Germany's party SPD, Sigmar Gabriel, has in mind foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier from SPD as a candidate for the next German president, saying Steinmeier "can represent Germany and knows about the challenges facing our times."

Neues Deutschland

-- German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere will fight smuggling more effectively by arranging for more investigators, saying federal police arrested 3,370 smugglers in 2015, an increase of 56.8 percent compared with the previous year.

Handlesblatt

-- The aging of the German population will result in a drastic reduction in taxable income for the state in the coming decades, according to an internal report for the federal finance ministry. Endit