Merkel embarks on Germany's 'strangest' campaign

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, fresh from a three-week Alpine holiday, embarked Saturday on what may be the most bizarre election campaign in the country's post-war history."We are set to reach full employment by 2025, that is to say an unemployment rate under three percent, and I believe we can achieve it,"said Merkel of a key objective of her centre-right Christian Democrat Union (CDU)."We have today 44 million employed in Germany.