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When Britain joined the European Community in 1973, its then prime minister, Edward Heath, was optimistic about the country’s membership and the prospects for national prosperity derived from rolling back the economic and political frontiers of Britain. Joining the European project was expected to generate a cross-fertilisation of knowledge and information that would enable Britain [...]
The semi-annual party preference survey from Statistics Sweden (SCB) shows that a general election in November would give the centre-right government parties (C + FP + M + KD), 48.4 percent of the vote. The centre-left parties (S + V + MP) would get 44.6 percent. The xenophobic Sweden Democrats would get 5.7 percent. Party [...]
Saturday’s Latvian parliamentary election was a success for the centre-left coalition, the Harmony Centre, which became the largest parliamentary group with 32 of the 100 seats in the Saeima. Harmony Centre is a coalition between the Social Democratic Party Harmony (SDPS) and the Socialist Party (LSP) and has in particular its support in the Russian-speaking minority. Despite the electoral success, it is unlikely that they will get seats in the government. 13 parties participated in the elections and five passed the five percent threshold: Party Election [...]
On Monday, Norwegians went to the ballot boxes in the local elections. The election was a success for the Labour Party, which had its best election in 24 years. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on election night: “The election campaign we’ve just put behind us is one of the most special election campaigns the Labour [...]
Everything indicates that Denmark will get a centre-left government after the elections on Thursday. The four parties that now belong to the opposition – Social Democrats, Socialist People’s Party, Social Liberals and Red-Green Alliance – get 91 of the Danish Parliament’s 179 seats in an opinion poll commissioned by the news agency Ritzau. But while [...]
According to a report by The National Union of Teachers in Sweden (Lärarnas riksförbund), there is solid opposition among Swedes regarding profits being taken out of the private so-called free schools. Eight out of ten Swedes want to see this limited. Even among centre-right voters 73 percent want to see such restrictions. Among centre-left voters [...]
An opinion poll that Norfakta conducted on behalf of the newspapers Nationen and Klassekampen shows that Norwegian women largely prefer the centre-left before the rightwing. While 51 percent of the men would vote for the Conservatives or the Progress Party, only 36 percent of women would do the same. Election researcher Hanne Marthe Narud at [...]
In the Danish business newspaper Børsen, we read that there are major differences in opinion polls before the election September 15. In Voxmeter’s survey, there is an extended lead for the centre-left, 98 seats against the centre-right’s 77 seats. In Megafon’s survey the other hand, there is only 90-85 in the allocation of seats to [...]
The municipal property tax is unpopular among Norwegians as a opinion poll conducted by Sentio on behalf of the newspaper Nationen shows. As many as 62.6 percent of voters say they are opposed to such a tax being introduced in their municipality. Meanwhile, a study conducted by the University of Oslo last year shows that [...]
According to an opinion poll commissioned by the news agency Ritzau the Danish centre-left opposition has a strong lead over the ruling right-wing government before the parliamentary elections that Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is expected to announce in the coming days. The two liberal and conservative government parties, together with the Liberal Alliance and [...]
A banner unfurled on the Leaning Tower of Pisa reads No alla riforma (of education). Portugal virtually comes to a halt as a result of a general strike that has united the bitterly divided union movement against austerity measures. British students trash the headquarters of the ruling Conservative Party in protest at budget cuts. In [...]
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