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Merkel has tried to portray the legislation as being fully in keeping with the German tradition of the "social market economy" -- a free-market system steered by the government for the citizenry's collective benefit.
But some in the political opposition reject those characterizations.
"Expropriation is socialism, not social market economy," the head of the opposition pro-business Free Democrats, Guido Westerwelle, told AFP news agency.