Word: socialists
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...since October. This time it was cabbies denouncing sweeping liberalization across a range of small, protected business sectors, as proposed in a study by an expert panel commissioned by Sarkozy to find ways of stimulating economic growth. The commission is headed by Jacques Attali - a former adviser to late Socialist President François Mitterrand who backs Sarkozy's effort to shake up France - and its report enraged small businesses like taxi drivers, pharmacists, hairstylists and convenience store operators with deregulation proposals that owners say will seriously undermine their livelihoods. Though Sarkozy immediately dismissed a few of the 316 proposals...
...former female presidential candidate will likely comment on the current prospects of another, as former French Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal comes to Harvard next week to speak about the role of gender in politics and her work to revitalize the French Left. Royal, who lost her bid to become President of France last May to conservative rival Nicolas Sarkozy, will be at Harvard in time for “Super Tuesday,” when presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be competing in over 20 states for the nomination of the Democratic Party...
Concern over disrupting E.U. talks may have beefed up last-minute support for Tadic in Sunday's vote (he had trailed substantially in most pre-election polls). However, Nikolic may have the upper hand in the runoff, particularly because he is expected to receive the support of the Socialist Party, whose candidate got 6% of the vote. Nikolic is a deputy of the Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, who is currently under trial for crimes against humanity for his wartime activity. Both Seselj and Nikolic were close associates of late President Slobodan Milosevic, who died during...
...Socialist Carmen Calvó, a former minister of culture, was blunt: "I don't like them at all. They're antiquated." United Left leader Gaspar Llamazares, objecting in particular to the Franco-esque ring of that "Viva España!," called them "stale." Artur Mas, leader of the Catalan party Convergence I Unio, sniped, "With words like this, I don't think you'll see me singing it much." Even the conservative Popular Party, which has made the addition of anthem lyrics part of its campaign platform, could manage only a tepid response. "They don't seem...
...previous de-Ba'athification law barred tens of thousands of government employees from their jobs. Most had become members in the socialist Ba'ath party not for ideological reasons but because party membership was a prerequisite to professional advancement under Saddam Hussein. Those who lost their jobs viewed the measure as collective punishment...