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Tue 05 May 2004Anti-war stand the trump card, but apathy will be the big issueCOUNTRY PROFILE/Germany: Germany's independent stance on the war in Iraq may play into European election campaigns there, Derek Scally reports from BerlinChancellor Gerhard Schröder is hoping lightning strikes twice in next month's European elections, judging from the billboards for his Social Democratic Party (SPD) bearing the slogan "Germany the Peacemaker - thanks to the SPD".