Word: governance
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...parties undoubtedly were strengthened. The election also featured a new grouping left of the SPD, succinctly titled the Left Party, which received nine percent of the vote, capitalizing on citizens economic insecurity. Since even with their respective partners, neither CDU nor SPD has the necessary 50 percent majority to govern, we will see a novel coalition. This has caused speculation about improbable combinations such as Greens and Liberals together allying either with the CDU or with the SPD. The mostly likely outcome, nonetheless, is a grand coalition of CDU and SPD. Such a venture has not been seen since...
...clock may, however, be running on that position. Another international panel is standing by to verify that the IRA has gone out of business, at which point unionists may begin to find it difficult to maintain it as the excuse for refusing to govern alongside their former enemies in the republican political movement Sinn Fein. But nobody is predicting any early breakthroughs...
...Such calamity might befall Italy, but Germany, the rock of stability ?ber alles? It gets worse. There is no obvious way to cobble together a majority that can govern Germany for the next four years. Theoretically, the Social Democrat-Green coalition could recruit the FDP. But the party's chairman insists that he won't get into bed with Schr?der's Social Democrats and Joschka Fischer's Greens. On the right side of the political divide, Merkel could try to pry the Greens out of Schr?der's embrace. Arithmetically, this is a fetching idea; ideologically, it is not. How would...
Though I find it somewhat lamentable that a sense of responsibility, or even duty, is not always sufficient to govern academic agreements, I find it virtually indefensible that the University offers no protection to students in the case of their breach...
...Those men still want to call the shots. Restricted by the social rules and safety fears that continue to govern women in Afghan society, female candidates are unable to campaign freely: they cannot travel on their own, throw election rallies or give speeches at mosques, the traditional arena for Afghan politicking. Nor can they expect support from local religious leaders, who denounce women in politics as an abomination. Under the Taliban, images of women were forbidden?and many families still prohibit wives and daughters from showing their faces in public. Yet 565 women candidates have had their photos placed...