• Across Europe voters have expressed their concern for the climate emergency, voting green in record numbers in this week's European Parliament elections. (businessgreen.com)
  • Many Estonian political party leaders are considering running in the European Parliament elections next spring, with Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) being the only unlikely candidate. (err.ee)
  • Jaak Madison, member of EKRE currently in the European Parliament, already announced his candidacy. (err.ee)
  • Reili Rand, the SDE's general secretary, told ERR that the party intends to review the list of candidates for the European Parliament, and that the list's principles will be approved at the summer council meeting. (err.ee)
  • Of course, we also want Isamaa to be represented in the European Parliament, which requires a strong list. (err.ee)
  • Suslov added that incumbent MEPs Andrus Ansip and Urmas Paet, who have declared their intention to run for the European Parliament again, will also be required to run in internal elections. (err.ee)
  • Lauri Hussar, chair of the progressive liberal Eesti 200, was more equivocal in his response to a question about his possible candidacy, saying through a spokesperson: "The chair of the party will certainly play a significant role in the European Parliament elections, both in shaping ideological positions, making campaign decisions and ensuring the voice of Eesti 200 voters is heard in Europe. (err.ee)
  • When asked about the candidacy of the ministerial members of Eesti 200, Hussar said, "The most important thing for the candidates is their expertise and orientation in European politics, as well as their desire to represent the interests of Estonian voters in the European Parliament as effectively as possible. (err.ee)
  • Lavly Perling, chair of the extra-parliamentary fiscal conservative Parempoolsed, told ERR that the party intends to run in the European Parliament elections, but that the party has yet to do a thorough review of the matter. (err.ee)
  • However, support for Podemos has dropped steadily since it first arrived in parliament in 2015 and in recent elections it has performed poorly. (irishtimes.com)
  • The European Parliament has just adopted a resolution which requires that the Union stop considering Russia as a strategic partner, but rather as an enemy of humanity. (voltairenet.org)
  • illustrate that loyalty to the leadership of the transnational parties present in Parliament is the key factor in the selection process. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The European Parliament provides the only directly elected representation of EU citizens. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Parliament has less administrative support than the Commission. (lse.ac.uk)
  • This means acquiring support from a majority in Parliament. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The European Parliament is most successful when negotiations take place behind closed doors . (lse.ac.uk)
  • EPP leaders to meet in Brussels on 23 June ahead of European Council - press registration EU heads of state and government, opposition leaders of the European People's Party (EPP) and the Presidents of the European Commission and the European Parliament - Ursula von der LEYEN and Roberta METSOLA - have been invited to participate at the upcoming EPP Summit in Brussels on 23 June. (epp.eu)
  • Delegates will also discuss enlargement and issues pertaining to the party's preparations ahead of the 2024 European Parliament elections. (epp.eu)
  • co-president until 2016) Balthasar Glättli (2020-present) Green party Green politics Environmental movement in Switzerland List of environmental organizations Medienmitteilung: Balthasar Glättli neuer Präsident der GRÜNEN (in German) Grünes Wahlprogramm: 13'000 Mitglieder können an der «Agenda 2023-2027» mitschreiben, 18. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Political Assembly of the European People's Party will meet in Brussels on 13-14 November 2023, chaired by EPP President Manfred Weber and EPP Secretary General Thanasis Bakolas . (epp.eu)
  • Preparations for the European Council on 23 and 24 June 2022 will be on the agenda. (epp.eu)
  • Under this programme, RWI has engaged with the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia to support implementation of the country's National Human Right's Action Plan 2020-2022 (NHRAP). (lu.se)
  • The World Bank approved US$250 million in additional financing for the Education Support Program in Morocco, adding to the initial US$500 million Program approved in 2019. (menafn.com)
  • Since its inception in 2019, the Education Support Program has contributed to improving the quality of early childhood education, enhanced the capacities of the teaching workforce, and management capacity and governance, particularly at the regional level. (menafn.com)
  • Making use of a new item in the 2019 Chapel Hill Expert Survey that measures party support for protection of domestic producer groups versus support for trade liberalisation, we examine the applicability of explanations for European integration positioning for the topic of trade. (lu.se)
  • Amid a brewing government crisis, the opposition Reform Party has the highest level of support from voters at 35.3 percent, a survey commissioned by the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and carried out by pollster Norstat shows. (err.ee)
  • Mr Wauqiuez, 44, a polarising hardliner who espoused policies close to those of Marine Le Pen, the far-Right leader, had been blamed by party activist for failing to connect with centre-Right voters. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Across Europe, the centre-Right has lost support as voters have drifted towards fringe parties. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Identification with the Democratic Party among Latino registered voters remains high. (pewresearch.org)
  • However, since 2008 fewer Latino registered voters say the Democratic Party is the better party for Latinos, while a growing share see the Republican Party as the better party. (pewresearch.org)
  • When asked which party has more concern for Hispanics, 45% of Latino registered voters identify the Democratic Party as the better party for Hispanics while 12% say the Republican Party is better for Hispanics. (pewresearch.org)
  • Meanwhile, the share of Latino registered voters who say the Republican Party has more concern for Hispanics has increased, from 6% in 2008 and 2010 to 12% in 2011. (pewresearch.org)
  • Nonetheless, in 2011 pluralities of just about all major groups of Latino registered voters say the Democratic Party has more concern for Hispanics. (pewresearch.org)
  • Hispanic registered voters continue to show a strong partisan allegiance to the Democratic Party. (pewresearch.org)
  • According to the Pew Hispanic survey, two-thirds (67%) of Hispanic registered voters say they identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party while just 20% say the same about the Republican Party. (pewresearch.org)
  • The new survey also reveals that Democrats have extended their lead in party allegiance among Hispanic registered voters. (pewresearch.org)
  • Across all demographic groups of Latino registered voters, large majorities identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party. (pewresearch.org)
  • The vice chair of the major opposition right-wing populist party, the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE), Henn Põlluaas, said that the party's leader, Martin Helme, might run for the best possible result. (err.ee)
  • The Centre Party has the second-highest level of support at 23.3 percent and the Estonian Conservative People's Party (EKRE) has 16.7 percent. (err.ee)
  • That majority must include at least one of the two major party groups (the European People's Party or the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats). (lse.ac.uk)
  • The European People's Party (EPP) maintains this website to enhance public access to information about its initiatives. (epp.eu)
  • The European Union (EU) has expressed support for the Philippines' claims in the South China Sea, with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen affirming that the regional bloc stands prepared to assist the country through measures such as "sharing information, conducting threat assessments and building the capacity of your National Coast Watch Center and your Coast Guard. (ibtimes.com)
  • At the time of his detention in 2016, Demirtaş was the Co-Chair of the PES associate party Halkların Demokratik Partisi (HDP). (pes.eu)
  • European Social Survey (8th ed.). 2016. (wikipedia.org)
  • Federal Chancellery, Communication Support (2016). (wikipedia.org)
  • Even with these challenges, the European registrations are on course for growth as we head towards the end of 2016. (jato.com)
  • Oxford University Press, 2016) was joint winner of the the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies Women's Forum prize for best book. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • The European Union underlines that the 2016 award of the arbitral tribunal on the South China Sea is legally binding, and that it provides the basis for peaceful resolving disputes between the parties," von der Leyen added. (ibtimes.com)
  • Inspired by a previous debate in Acta Politica between Rudy Andeweg and Arend Lijphart on the pros and cons of consensus democracy, this article explores whether support for populist parties is traceable to the institutional framework of West European democracies. (springer.com)
  • Throughout, consensual systems are hypothesized to display higher support for populist parties than majoritarian systems. (springer.com)
  • We show that the executives-parties dimension, which measures the diffusion of power within political institutions, indeed makes a difference for populist support. (springer.com)
  • Betz, H.-G. (2002) 'Conditions Favoring the Success and Failure of Radical Right-wing Populist Parties in Contemporary Democracies', in Y. Mény and Y. Surel (eds. (springer.com)
  • Mr Lecornu said populist nationalists were plotting to take over local governments and Republican mayors should join forces with Mr Macron's party to block the advance of Ms Le Pen's National Rally. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • FERMA throws a great party for delegates and their partners to celebrate every Forum. (ferma.eu)
  • In a recent study , we argue that the transnational party leadership delegates tasks to loyal members and builds a pool of alternative experts within different policy areas. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The Working Group consists of delegates of EPP member parties who prepared and worked?on this document for more than two years and received input?from the drafting committee as well as senior and young experts. (epp.eu)
  • Polk, J & Rosén, G 2024, ' Trade and the transnational cleavage in European party politics ', Journal of European Public Policy , vol. 31, nr. 1, s. 104-130. (lu.se)
  • Spain's famously fractious political left is being divided once again by a dispute which threatens to undermine its electoral support just months ahead of crucial elections. (irishtimes.com)
  • Bartolini found a robust and enduring association between different aspects of the class cleavage (i.e., the presence of a strong industrial working class, high membership rates in trade unions and left-wing parties) and the electoral support for class bloc parties (i.e., communist, socialist, and social democratic parties). (cambridge.org)
  • Some of Europe's top diplomats have gathered in Kyiv in a display of support for Ukraine's fight against Russia's invasion as signs emerge of political strain in Europe and the United States about the war. (wane.com)
  • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - The European Union's foreign policy chief on Monday led a delegation of top diplomats on an unannounced visit to Kyiv and dismissed concerns about political tension in the bloc over its long-term support for Ukraine's fight against Russia. (wane.com)
  • The talks took place after the weekend election victory in EU member Slovakia of former Prime Minister Robert Fico, whose pro-Russian agenda has increased the question marks about the EU's continued support for Kyiv. (wane.com)
  • The small eastern European country could bring more tension to the EU's discussions on Ukraine, as has happened with Hungary's at-times cool attitude toward Kyiv. (wane.com)
  • The majority of Greens support an accession of Switzerland to the European Union. (wikipedia.org)
  • In immigration policy, the greens support further integration initiatives for immigrants. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Greens support measures to increase energy efficiency, oppose nuclear power, and support raising energy and fuel prices. (wikipedia.org)
  • The EU remains united in its support to Ukraine … I don't see any member state folding on their engagement," Borrell told a news conference in the Ukrainian capital. (wane.com)
  • The EU, the United States and the United Kingdom have provided massive military and financial support to Ukraine, enabling it to stand up to the Kremlin's attack. (wane.com)
  • U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday reassured allies of continued U.S. financial support for the war effort, after Congress averted a government shutdown by adopting a short-term funding package that dropped assistance for Ukraine in its battle against Russia. (wane.com)
  • The ranks of the party faithful have thinned since the 2017 election that brought Mr Macron to power. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • On 24-26 May 2017, ENSP ( European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention ) held its 2nd Annual International Conference on Tobacco Control in Athens, Greece, which gathered around 300 participants and presented more than 100 scientific abstracts. (who.int)
  • We call on left wing parties and politicians, trade unions and feminists to express their solidarity. (european-left.org)
  • More than 300 human rights and aid organisations, church groups, trade unions and political parties from across Europe have called on the EU to uphold its legal responsibilities and hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law and to defend the right of individuals and institutions to take part in the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for justice and equality. (laborforpalestine.net)
  • Therefore, the class cleavage is not entirely lost in translation, but left electoral mobilization is no longer dependent upon the organizational features of trade unions and political parties that originally emerged to represent working-class interests. (cambridge.org)
  • However, Bartolini's empirical results are drawn from the "golden age" of class politics, where the working class was strong and mainly industry-based, and class bloc parties and trade unions were powerful mass organizations. (cambridge.org)
  • Spain is holding an election of European significance on Sunday. (european-left.org)
  • The election has led to difficult headlines for the party, with candidates and their supporters in the traditionally-disciplined SNP openly taking pot-shots at each other and Sturgeon's record. (politico.eu)
  • It is the fourth-largest party in the National Council of Switzerland and the largest party that is not represented on the Federal Council. (wikipedia.org)
  • On the national level, in 2003 the Green Party was not represented in the Council of States or Federal Council. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2007, two Green Party members were elected to the Council of States. (wikipedia.org)
  • First of all let me say that this is the first opportunity we have had to discuss the global strategy that I presented to the European Council last week after the Council saw and welcomed the strategy itself. (europa.eu)
  • As you might imagine, the fact that I decided to present the strategy to the European Council, even after the results of the UK referendum, was not in any way a decision that was taken for granted. (europa.eu)
  • This requires members to rally behind the party label when early agreements are reached with the Council. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Journalists will be given access to the venue upon presentation of their accreditation badges issued by the European Council or their national press ID cards. (epp.eu)
  • Judgment of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities in the case Omar Mohammed Othman v Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities . (derechos.org)
  • Three clinical examples are then presented showing how different psychoanalysts actually worked - using the theoretical and comparative framework the Working Party developed and implemented in the workshops. (bvsalud.org)
  • This study was developed by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (RWI) within the framework of its Cooperation Programme in Armenia, which is financial y supported by Swedish Development Cooperation (Sida). (lu.se)
  • Besides managing a comprehensive support programme in Zambia and Malawi, he played a guiding role in the health sector reforms processes in the framework of developing sector-wide approaches in both countries and co-developed and managed a regional HIV-AIDS programme for Southern Africa. (who.int)
  • Mr Macron is aiming to co-opt Republican party officials before local elections next year. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Most of this change regarding views of the Republican Party comes from Hispanic Republicans. (pewresearch.org)
  • Even among Hispanic Republicans, more (46%) say there is no difference between the two parties than say the Republican Party (28%) has more concern for Hispanics. (pewresearch.org)
  • Some 47% identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party, while 43% identify with or lean toward the Republican Party. (pewresearch.org)
  • Some are turning to the Republican Party because of it. (csmonitor.com)
  • Two institutional dimensions - the executives-parties dimension and the federal-unitary dimension - are drawn from Lijphart's work to analyze the association between patterns of democracy and populism. (springer.com)
  • Kitschelt, H. (2002) 'Popular Dissatisfaction with Democracy: Populism and Party Systems', in Y. Mény and Y. Surel (eds. (springer.com)
  • Green Parties in Transition: The End of Grass-roots Democracy? (wikipedia.org)
  • Transnational party groups bargain over the responsibility to prepare legislation on behalf of the committee. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Theorists of the transnational cleavage, defined as a political reaction against European integration and immigration, also regularly conceptualise international trade preferences as a component of this contemporary societal divide. (lu.se)
  • The findings advance previous studies on the transnational cleavage and party positioning on trade, and demonstrate the continued importance of economic factors in driving patterns of trade protection. (lu.se)
  • I want to support my party and encourage as many Center Party supporters as possible to vote," Jüri Ratas, chair of the opposition Center Party, said. (err.ee)
  • Support for the three parties of the ruling coalition was 46.2 percent, and that for the opposition parties stood at 43.4 percent. (err.ee)
  • The leader of France's main conservative opposition party, The Republicans, resigned on Sunday a week after their humiliating rout in the European elections. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • An independent, she has membership of the Spanish Communist party but only, she says, as a tribute to her father who was a union leader during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. (irishtimes.com)
  • Latvian ex-Minister for Foreign Affairs and ex-European Commissioner for Agriculture, Sandra Kalniete, began working against the Soviet Union as soon as her country gained its independence. (voltairenet.org)
  • We believe that our citizens and the citizens of the entire world need a more united Europe and a stronger European Union if we want to make their lives better and safer. (europa.eu)
  • The EPP Platform is the core programme of our party outlining our main values, explaining the challenges our society is facing and presenting our vision for the future of European Union. (epp.eu)
  • The European Union has been very supportive of a free and open Indo-Pacific, because an Indo-Pacific free of the threats of coercion is key to all our stability to our peace, and to the prosperity of our people," she said . (ibtimes.com)
  • People resorted to mass nonviolent protests because they were fed up with the authoritarian system who was thriving on continuous instability to oppress its people and blackmail its regional neighbors and the European Union. (nonviolent-conflict.org)
  • the European Union (EU) in the early 1990s. (cdc.gov)
  • The additional financing also introduces an investment project financing (ipf) into the Program, providing technical support to the Ministry of National Education, Preschool, and Sports to implement key reforms leading to better results in education. (menafn.com)
  • Among the reforms to be supported by the Program is the contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts. (menafn.com)
  • Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris who is in the same party as Hollande, wants to put the reforms into effect as soon as possible, if he can find the 5 million euros needed without raising taxes. (workers.org)
  • The RWI programme aims to support key actors in Armenia, including selected policymakers, academic institutions and civil society organisations, to increase their capacities to apply international human rights standards in support of ongoing reforms. (lu.se)
  • Reform Party outdoor poster as it would appear in central Tallinn, autumn 2018. (err.ee)
  • This setup allowed us to bring together activists, researchers, policymakers and diplomats with direct field work to share their experience with external support for nonviolent movements-whether on the giving or receiving end. (nonviolent-conflict.org)
  • Appendix A3: Political Parties" (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
  • However, she has seemed determined to keep her distance from all political parties, including Podemos, as she creates what she calls a new "civic movement", called Sumar (or Gather). (irishtimes.com)
  • In an apparent dig at her, he also warned that it was "reactionary" to suggest that conventional political parties were a problem. (irishtimes.com)
  • I particularly encourage applications from students interested in radical political parties, grassroots political activism, rural Russia, Siberia, and crime and punishment. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • At a minimum, they are expressions of social, political and economic ideas that formal political parties or institutions do not sufficiently represent. (nonviolent-conflict.org)
  • I investigate whether the strength of the class cleavage in Western Europe still "translates" into the electoral mobilization of the left. (cambridge.org)
  • I investigate whether and under what conditions the electoral mobilization of the Western European left is predicted by the strength of the class cleavage. (cambridge.org)
  • Timo Suslov, general secretary of the Reform Party, told ERR that the party's list of candidates will be compiled as usual through internal elections, which will take place at the end of autumn or in the winter. (err.ee)
  • Prior to joining WHO, Dr Peeperkorn was managing a large health and HIV-AIDS supported-programme portfolio in Tanzania (2005-2013) for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (who.int)
  • Prior to his assignment in Tanzania, Dr Peeperkorn worked as Associate Director of the Country and Regional Support Department at UNAIDS in Geneva (2002-2005), where he was responsible for the conceptualization and establishment of the UNAIDS regional technical support facilities, mainstreaming HIV and AIDS in development instruments and sector programmes, policy advice and programme guidance. (who.int)
  • One of the biggest misconceptions of the American left-and left-of-center movements in Europe as well-is the tendency to think of the far right as a nationalist movement," says Melissa Ryan, who writes the Ctrl Alt-Right Delete newsletter for Hope Not Hate, the British anti-racist research group. (thenation.com)
  • Today, the question of national identity is frequently brought up in Europe as extreme right- wing parties with xenophobic agendas gain support across the continent with nationalist arguments. (lu.se)
  • The Opal Financial Group will be hosting their tenth annual European Alternative & Institutional Investing Summit this October in Monte Carlo, Monaco. (prlog.org)
  • The Summit will bring together institutional investment and private wealth management industry professionals from throughout North America and Europe for three days of engaging discussions on a wide range of common investment challenges and opportunities in both traditional and alternative investments. (prlog.org)
  • The Tenth Annual European Alternative & Institutional Investing Summit will take place from the 25th to the 27th of October, and will be held for the first time at the stunning Le Méridien Beach Plaza in Monte Carlo. (prlog.org)
  • Opal Financial Group coordinates leading institutional investment conferences throughout North America and Europe. (prlog.org)
  • Understood as an opportunity to debate the fact we have different ideas and the support for them, pluralism provides the context for rigorous and respectful examination of differences. (bvsalud.org)
  • The European Left calls for solidarity with the "Women's Strike" (Strajk Kobiet), the struggle of the Polish Women. (european-left.org)
  • The European Left will act for solidarity. (european-left.org)
  • Signatories to the letter called on the EU commission to "introduce the human rights guidelines guaranteeing freedom of speech and right to boycott and to use all other means you have in your disposal to support European citizens in their struggle to uphold basic human rights. (laborforpalestine.net)
  • In the same context, certain communications were addressed by the European Commission to those of its members [ 2 ] , including Italy, who harboured the intention to join the Chinese initiative of the New Silk Road. (voltairenet.org)
  • The European Commission faithfully echoes the US warning to its allies. (voltairenet.org)
  • Je ne vois pas en quoi le temps, déjà limité, des débats de plénière devrait être pris sur du temps de commission ou, en tout cas, amputé par des temps de commission, durant lesquels certains collègues vont soulever, dans un cénacle limité, des questions qu'ils pourraient soumettre ici, en plénière, au vu et au su de tout le monde. (europa.eu)
  • Once members have collected information and assessed a proposal from the Commission, they must build support for their desired amendments. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The European Commission president then highlighted that the "rising tensions" in the Indo-Pacific region are a matter of global concern. (ibtimes.com)
  • Regulation on risk assessment for existing substances of the proposed EU REACH legislation, both in the in 1996 (European Commission, 1996). (cdc.gov)
  • Much of the European Parliament's work rests on negotiations within parliamentary committees, as well as other informal negotiations that take place behind closed doors. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Respondents, including members of education boards, curriculum committees, trainee committees of European specialist societies and the ECO Patient Advisory Committee, were asked to score 127 proposed competencies on a 7-point Likert scale as to their value in achieving the aims of the curriculum. (bvsalud.org)
  • Once seen as the natural party of government, The Republicans won only 8.5 per cent of the vote in the European elections, an even worse defeat than that suffered by the UK Conservative Party. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Sébastien Lecornu, a former Republican now serving as his minister for local communities, told conservative mayors this weekend: "Quit The Republicans… Put your energy into helping us rebuild the country rather than your party. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Gérard Larcher, the Republican speaker of France's Senate, last week announced an ambitious initiative to re-invent the centre-Right and form a new party. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Often, the question of what is "Swedish," "French" or "Hungarian" is at the centre of the debate, as this "identity" is something that, according to the proponents of these parties, needs to be protected from the influence of cultures brought in to the countries by immigrants. (lu.se)
  • The top three are followed by the Social Democratic Party (SDE) with 8.1 percent and Isamaa with 6.2 percent. (err.ee)
  • It is empowering to see so many European civil society organisations and representative bodies publicly declaring their support for the right to participate in the BDS movement that aims to hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law and human rights. (laborforpalestine.net)
  • Local and regional Green parties and organisations were founded in many different towns and cantons in the following years. (wikipedia.org)
  • But the reactionary forces continue to attack the right of women to decide over their own bodies in Eastern Europe, Middle East, USA and Latin America. (european-left.org)
  • A new set of regulations for how the top bodies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hold meetings gives President Xi Jinping yet another tool in his quest for total control over politics in his country. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • In the 1990s, members of the Green Party became town mayors, members of the high court and even president of a cantonal government (Verena Diener in 1999). (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1983, two different national green party federations were created: in May, diverse local green groups came together in Fribourg to form the Federation of Green Parties of Switzerland, and in June, some left-alternative groups formed the Green Alternative Party of Switzerland in Bern. (wikipedia.org)
  • Afterward, some of the member groups from the Green Alternative Party joined the Federation of Green Parties which has become the de facto national Green party. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1993, the Federation of Green Parties changed its name to the Green Party of Switzerland. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1987, the Green Party of Switzerland joined the European Federation of Green Parties. (wikipedia.org)
  • Trump also pledged to push for Brazilian membership in NATO-despite the country's being nowhere near the North Atlantic-and supported a free-trade deal as well. (thenation.com)
  • While knowledge about a given policy area is important, parties typically develop a group of experts from which they can select candidates rather than relying on individuals with the most expertise. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The party is planning nine hustings events to allow its members to grill leadership candidates Humza Yousaf, Kate Forbes and Ash Regan. (politico.eu)
  • It is the members who will be voting for the next leader of the party, so the SNP NEC has designed the party hustings as a safe space for members to ask questions of the three candidates," an SNP National Executive Committee spokesperson said. (politico.eu)
  • An update on major political events, candidates, and parties twice a week. (csmonitor.com)
  • All participants also report back to the committee and their respective party groups. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The EPP Manifesto, also adopted at the 2012 EPP Congress in Bucharest, outlines the basic principles of the Party summary. (epp.eu)
  • The EPP Manifesto, also adopted at the 2012 EPP Congress in Bucharest, outlines the basic principles of the Party summarising who we are, what our values are, what challenges are we facing and what vision we have for the future. (epp.eu)
  • Note that consensual countries receive higher scores on the executives-parties dimension than majoritarian countries. (springer.com)
  • This research question is addressed through comparative longitudinal analysis in nineteen Western European countries after World War II. (cambridge.org)
  • The starting point of this investigation is represented by Bartolini's influential work ( Reference Bartolini 2000 ), a macro-historical analysis of thirteen Western European countries in the period 1860-1980. (cambridge.org)
  • Contrary to what is being debated in some European countries today, the idea of an autochthonous national identity is not real. (lu.se)
  • After the spread of H5N1 influenza in the mid 2000s WHO supported technology transfer for the production of pandemic flu vaccines to 14 countries, increasing global capacity by more than 700 million doses. (bvsalud.org)
  • Díaz's reluctance to associate herself with Podemos, a junior partner in the Socialist-led coalition, has provoked bewilderment and anger within the far-left party, which claims credit for her recent rise. (irishtimes.com)
  • UP made history by burying differences with the Socialist Party and forming Spain's first coalition government of the modern era. (irishtimes.com)
  • A better comprehension among these key actors would help pave the way toward inclusion of nonviolent movements on the list of actors eligible for EU support-a key step in pressing toward authentic, grassroots change at the societal level. (nonviolent-conflict.org)
  • After all, nonviolent movements are, despite their peaceful means, the result of some conflict, making it challenging to support them without being perceived as taking sides. (nonviolent-conflict.org)
  • In a country in conflict such as Afghanistan, this required ongoing, skilful negotiations with all parties at all levels. (who.int)
  • The United States - declared a Pentagon spokesperson on CNN - are getting ready to test ground-based ballistic missiles (forbidden by the INF Treaty buried by Washington), that is to say new Euromissiles which will once again make Europe the base and at the same time, the target of a nuclear war. (voltairenet.org)
  • The EU must uphold the right of European, Palestinian and Israeli citizens to uphold human rights and take part in the nonviolent BDS movement. (laborforpalestine.net)
  • Mr Larcher, 69, had planned to chair a meeting of influential Right-wingers and centrists on Tuesday in a bid to begin forming a new, broad-based conservative party. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • The results show that party positions on international trade correlate with parties' underlying two-dimensional ideology: parties of the economic left and culturally conservative parties support trade protection. (lu.se)
  • At Israel's request, European governments including the UK and France are introducing anti-democratic legislation and taking other repressive measures to undermine the BDS movement. (laborforpalestine.net)
  • The presented study was developed to support these efforts by reviewing international best practices and standards on criminal and legal coverage for persons engaging in human rights protection activities, as well as examining relevant Armenian legislation and conducting a gap analysis. (lu.se)
  • While in charge, Mao Zedong upended the existing rules of the party, using mob appeal and improvised new formats to cement his own rule. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Party groups have few means of monitoring the rapporteur's actions given the lack of transparency and the consensual nature of the output. (lse.ac.uk)