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** FILE ** The new European EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes answers questions from journalists after her appointment during a press conference in The Hague, in this Aug. 12, 2004 file photograph. In a case of women's solidarity, EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes backed Angela Merkel on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2005 in her bid to become the next German chancellor. Arguing that the election of a woman could air out Germany's stuffy bureaucracy, Kroes said

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