Merkel Challenger Attacks Her Austerity Policy

More money for Europe. That was the central message delivered by Peer Steinbrück, the center-left challenger to Angela Merkel in fall elections, in a major foreign policy speech he delivered on Tuesday afternoon in Berlin. As the chancellor herself was wading through Bavarian floodwaters, Steinbrück was blasting her for continuing to impose strict austerity measures on the rest of the Continent.