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| Denmark
People’s Movement welcomes foreign workers Danish agreements should protect all
Upon the arrival in Copenhagen of the morning’s ship from Poland Søren |
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| Germany and Portugal
Social democracy punished ,
At the centre and south of Europe — in Germany and Portugal — parliamentary elections on September 27, 2009 marked a historic electoral setback for social democracy. In Germany the SPD lost a third of its electorate, or more than 4.5 million votes, in five years, and with 23% of those voting obtained its lowest score since 1949. In Portugal, the PSP of the outgoing prime minister José Sócrates lost a fifth of its electorate, or more than 500,000 votes, and with 35.56% of the votes it no longer has an absolute majority in Parliament. This was its worst result since 1991. -> read article... |
| Climate Change
Copenhagen: Collapse at the summit, rank-and-file victoryWe knew the United Nations summit in Copenhagen would not conclude with a new international treaty but a simple statement of intent – just one more. But the text adopted at the end of the meeting is worse than anything we could imagine: no quantified objectives for emissions reduction, no reference year for measuring them, no deadlines, no date! -> read article... |