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- Reunification legacy erodes appetite for EU
- Unlike last November's US presidential election, or last month's parliamentary elections in Japan, next Sunday's German contest will not transform the nation's political landscape. Angela Merkel seems certain to win a second term as chancellor. The main doubt is whether her centre-right Christian Democrats will extend their "grand coalition"...
- External links 2009-09-22
- Brown puts fiscal stimulus centre stage
- A series of ministers will use this week's Labour party conference to claim government action helped pull the country back from the economic abyss, while their Tory counterparts will as surely use their own conference next week to blame the government for the downturn's depth.Gordon Brown drew the battle...
- External links 2009-09-27
- Political fury over F Telecom suicides
- Didier Lombard, chief executive of France Telecom, faced calls for his resignation yesterday as he found himself at a centre of a political storm in France following the 24th suicide by a company employee in 18 months.France's opposition socialists and far-left parties demanded that Mr Lombard quit the company...
- External links 2009-09-29
- Murdoch tabloid swings to Tories
- Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper has switched its support from the Labour government it is credited with helping to sweep to power in 1997 to back the Conservative party in next year's general election.The UK's top-selling daily dealt the blow the morning after Gordon Brown, prime minister, delivered a speech...
- External links 2009-09-30
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- Splits in the political parties. (political representation within US political parties)
- Issues are splitting the political parties in the United States. Republican party support is divided among cultural and economic conservatives, and libertarian and internationalist leaning members. The Democrats are separated by issue-based factions focusing on such issues as China, the IRS and free trade. Just imagine four Republican...
- Research articles 1998-10-01
- Party decline: a primer. (political parties)
- Although the Republic's Founders dreaded the divisiveness of "faction," political parties have proved essential to the promise of American democracy. Parties bridge the structural bias against government activism in the constitutional separation of powers and allow ordinary citizens who lack economic influence to aggregate political...
- Research articles 1998-05-01
- ARMENIA: ARMENIAN PRESIDENT, POLITICAL PARTIES DISCUSS COUNCIL OF EUROPE MEMBERSHIP.(Brief Article)
- At an 8 February meeting with President Robert Kocharian, the leaders of political parties represented in the Armenian parliament agreed unanimously on amending the country's legislation in order to expedite Armenia's full membership in the Council o At an 8 February meeting with President Robert Kocharian,...
- Research articles 2000-02-10
- EGYPT: POLITICAL PARTIES REJECT SETTING CONDITIONS ON US AID TO EGYPT.
- Egypt's political parties and all national powers rejected the decision of the US Congress to set conditions on the US aid to Egypt, being an intervention in Egypt's internal affairs. Earlier, the US Congress suspended $ 100 million of the total US a Egypt's political parties...
- Research articles 2007-12-25
- CZECH REPUBLIC: CZECH PRESIDENT PROPOSES CHANGING LAW ON POLITICAL PARTIES.(Vaclav Havel)(Brief Article)
- Vaclav Havel on 2 November proposed to the Constitutional Court modifying the country's law on political parties so that it creates a level playing field for all groups rather than benefiting the larger parties relative to the smaller ones, CTK reported. Civic Democratic Party ODS head...
- Research articles 2000-11-08
- The country club: how an elite group of corporations, unions and super-rich individuals is financing the political parties, shaping the political agenda and reaping great rewards with huge soft money contributions - Cover Story
- How an elite group of corporations, unions and super-rich individuals is financing the political parties, shaping the political agenda and reaping great rewards with huge soft money contributions.Swanee Hunt is a member. So are Daniel Abraham, the Slim*Fast man, and Darrell Issa, whose scary voice warns unwitting passersby that they've...
- Research articles 1996-03-22
- Nepal political parties vow to keep up protests
- KATHMANDU AFP — Police have kept tight security in place in Nepal's capital as political parties vowed more protests against King Gyanendra's rule despite hundreds of arrests in recent days. An alliance of seven parties has called for a nationwide strike Thursday. On Saturday police arrested more than...
- Research articles 2006-01-21
- Political parties vow to defy royal government ban on protests
- KATHMANDU, Nepal AFP — Nepal's royal government banned all public gatherings in the capital, including a mass pro-democracy protest planned for Saturday, but political parties vowed to defy the order. "The local administration in Kathmandu and the suburb of Lalitpur has announced a ban on public gatherings within the...
- Research articles 2006-04-04
- Jordan lower house approves political parties bill
- AMMAN AFP — Jordan's lower house has adopted a bill to regulate political parties that raises the number of founding members from 50 to 500, triggering on Thursday the ire of MPs who say it will discourage people from taking part in politics. The lower house passed the bill...
- Research articles 2007-03-15
- Deliberations begin on fate of Thailand's main political parties
- BANGKOK AFP — Senior Thai judges began deliberating Tuesday on whether to dissolve the kingdom's two main political parties as thousands of troops were put on alert amid security fears ahead of the court verdict. Thailand's Constitutional Tribunal must decide whether Thai Rak Thai TRT, the party formed by...
- Research articles 2007-05-29
- RUSSIA: MORE PARTY LISTS REGISTERED...(political parties)(Brief Article)
- The Central Election Commission TsIK on 28 September registered the federal lists of three more political parties and one electoral bloc, ITAR-TASS reported. These included the lists of Unified Russia, the Agrarian Party, the Democratic Party of Russia, and the bloc of the Party of Pensioners...
- Research articles 2003-09-29
- Political Parties and Party Systems. (book reviews)
- By ALAN WARE. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xix + 435. [pounds]45 cloth; [pounds]14.99 paper. ISBN 0-19-878-076-1 and 076-1 Taking into account the very wide coverage of Political Parties and Party Systems, Alan Ware has been remarkably successful in bringing together in one volume all...
- Research articles 1998-04-01
- Iraq's political parties latest target in wave of violence
- BAQUBA, Iraq AFP ? Political parties became the latest target of Iraq's violent insurgency as rebels hit the local office of the prime minister's political group and a Shiite party in the restive city of Baquba, while a car bomb in the north wounded a top Kurdish politician. The...
- Research articles 2004-06-26
- Political parties and public policy: social welfare policy from Carter to Bush.(in the United States)
- An evaluation is made of the effectiveness of the two main U.S. political parties in implementing 287 political promises about social welfare between 1977 and 1992. The Democrats managed to fulfill more under president Bush than under President Carter and factors such as public feeling about welfare and the state...
- Research articles 1997-06-22
- Political parties to return donations.
- Sep 16, 2002 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) A law on political donations has been passed in the Australian Senate. However, it was opposed by the Australian Coalition Government and still has to pass through the House of Representatives. On 16 September 2002,...
- Research articles 2002-09-16
- Redrawn and quartered: India. (political parties)
- The results of state elections held Mar 13, 1995, in India shows that the influence of political parties has changed. The Bharatiya Janata Party won in the west and the Congress party lost two more states. The results could demonstrate how voters feel about corrupt activities of incumbents. THE...
- Research articles 1995-03-18
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