Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Christian Democrats" produced 280 items.
| 1. Presidency must be freed from grip of party interests | January 5, 2012 |
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Democracy should govern the European Parliament's internal arrangements as well as the election of MEPs.
A platform for presidential candidates The presidency of the... | |
| 2. In praise of folly | December 21, 2011 |
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However familiar he became, Václav Havel always represented – and offered – something different. Contemporary accounts of Václav Havel's early days as president of... | |
| 3. Eco-friendly federalist | December 15, 2011 |
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Isabelle Durant, a Brussels native who has taken a short trip to the European Parliament. “Isabelle Durant is a friend of the Marxist guerrilla movement and has come here... |
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| 4. Belgium's return to normality asks questions of liberalism | December 8, 2011 |
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The long-delayed formation of a government in Belgium brings to an end an interesting post-modern experiment in apolitical politics. At just the moment that the leaders of... | |
| 5. Belgian cabinet sworn in | December 6, 2011 |
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Elio Di Rupo becomes first prime minister from Wallonia since 1974. Elio Di Rupo was today sworn in as Belgium's prime minister, ending nearly a year-and-a-half of political... |
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| 6. Political economist | December 1, 2011 |
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One of Germany's most repected civil servants is off to the ECB. Two years ago, in an article entitled “Who really governs us”, the German news magazine |
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| 7. Slovakia's Superman | October 6, 2011 |
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A profile of Richard Sulík, the Slovak who might yet pull the plug on the eurozone's bail-out fund. Dressed in a green Superman costume, with spermatozoa rushing alongside... |
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| 8. The EU will tie itself in knots over extremism | July 28, 2011 |
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The erosion of traditional political lines is helping
extremist parties gain traction. The attacks perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik in Oslo and on the island of... | |
| 9. Lessons from a state without a government | July 20, 2011 |
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Different way of looking at government. How much government is necessary or desirable? The question has confronted political scientists and lawmakers since long before the... | |
| 10. Little appetite for Turkish accession | July 20, 2011 |
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A complex, close and at times contentious relationship. Turkey's relations with the EU are complex, close and at times contentious – and are shaped by issues that are... |
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| 11. Finland, Greece and Portugal form new governments | June 23, 2011 |
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EU troubles leave imprint on formation of new governments. The troubled relationship of the European Union with its member states has left its imprint on the formation of... | |
| 12. Election defeat for German coalition | March 28, 2011 |
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Social Democrats and Greens take control of Baden-Württemberg. Germany's Christian Democrats, the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, have lost control of... |
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| 13. Farmers' friend | March 3, 2011 |
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Germany's minister for food and farming is very different from the scowling, heavy-set men who preceded her. Ilse Aigner is an odd fit for Germany's ministry for food,... |
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| 14. The resistible rise of Viktor Orbán | February 24, 2011 |
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Hungary's prime minister is subjected to a withering critique in a book on his country's post-communist politics. How is it that Hungary, central Europe's democratic... |
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| 15. Major opposition to Franco-German eurozone plan | February 10, 2011 |
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Competitiveness to combat debt crisis but content of plan criticised by other EU leaders.
● Difficult times for Van Rompuy
● Call for a stable transition, not for... |
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| 16. Light-touch sheriff | January 27, 2011 |
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Thomas de Maizière, Germany's interior minister, can be relied on to keep his calm. Not all that long ago, Thomas de Maizière could pop over to Berlin's... |
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| 17. Green-tinted conservative | November 25, 2010 |
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The successes and setbacks of Norbert Röttgen's quest to reshape Germany's centre-right. At the age of 45, Germany's environment minister, Norbert Röttgen, is the... |
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| 18. An unbelievable gathering | October 21, 2010 |
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Europe's non-believers come to Brussels. The presidents of the European Council, the European Commission and the European Parliament (all of them Christian Democrats) have... |
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| 19. Dutch government sworn in | October 14, 2010 |
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Mark Rutte becomes first liberal prime minister since 1918. A new Dutch government took power today, promising to reduce bureaucracy, cut spending and curb immigration. |
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| 20. Consensus builder | October 7, 2010 |
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The Austrian MEP has reinvented himself as a banking guru. Two years ago, Othmar Karas seemed on track to become Austria's foreign minister. Fellow party members had already... |
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