Sentences with phrase «by social democrats»

The majority of university presidents and the majority of the Länder (German states), governed by Social Democrats and the Green Party, rejected tuition fees as antisocial.

His head was turned by the Social Democrats which he backed in the early 1980s.

But now, there appears to be a new emerging thinking on the left that is now beginning to challenge inequalities of power in relation to the citizen and welfare state, which were once believed to be inevitable by social democrats.

The cause of addressing this has been taken up by social democrats, notably Owen Jones, but how far has it struck a chord with new protest movements such as Occupy?

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Some Democrats worry that the recent tax cut will be used by Republicans to reduce social programs.

Fatigued by years of austerity and swayed by promises of debt relief, Icelandic voters dumped the Social Democrats from power on Saturday, returning a center - right government that ruled over its financial collapse five years ago.

Final comments and conclusion By the 2008 banking crisis there no longer was a partisan political difference between Republicans and Democrats in the United States, or between social democratic and neoliberal parties in Europe.

Neo-liberalism had begun by pointing out social - democracy as its main enemy in the advanced capitalist countries, which provoked a reaction of hostility from social - democrat forces.

Either social conservatives will devise effective new political strategies now, in 2018, or the Republican party will turn against them, and Democrats will exercise their power more aggressively, unhampered by fears of opposition.

Ultimately, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick read portions of the letter and the Vatican response to it at a service for Kennedy in Washington, D.C. News reports called the Vatican letter pro forma, and its cited portions avoid mention of the social issues on which Kennedy not only defied his faith, but spearheaded defiance of his faith — a modus operandi that is still deployed (and was just deployed in the recent Lamb - Saccone special election in Pennsylvania) by pro-choice Catholic Democrats.

You know, there are an awful lot of us who a christian who vote democrat and who have been getting verbally and ideologically by our right wing bretheran for being «those social justice christians».

She is not short on prescriptions, either, and would like to see the government make a «big, bold offer» by asking Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb, a former health minister, to chair a commission on funding the NHS and social care.

With the usual few years of delay, the Italian left seemed on the path to modernize its political discourse along the lines already taken by New Labour in Britain or the Social Democrat's Agenda 2010 in Germany.

Social democrats in Europe are the heirs of a pluralist tradition encapsulated by Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Thomas Paine and Pierre - Joseph Proudhon which champions the diffusion of property rights and economic control, spreading power as widely as possible.

Back in 2001, during Chancellor Schroeder's time, a Social Democrat - Green Party coalition government put their heads (and money) together to embark upon procuring the Euro Hawk, a variant of the US - developed Global Hawk, a spy drone, built by the American company Northrop Grumman [1].

Such a composition worries many Social Democrats given the last experience with a coalition in 2009 when the SPD vote share shrank by 12.2 per cent.

The motion was brought forward jointly by the Conservative (CDU / CSU), Social Democrat (SPD), Liberal (FDP) and Green groups.

A third perspective has been offered by classic social - democrats like Roy Hattersley, who backed Miliband and his One Nation Labour, but firmly opposed any Blairite resurgence.

Austria is currently ruled by a «grand coalition» of Social Democrats and the conservative People's Party.

Democrats are by no means the only ones who can contribute to that end but it would greatly benefit working families to have a DNC leadership committed to progressive political change; social, climate and economic justice; and the expansion of our democracy.»

Mr. Speaker, it is worth stressing that thisincrease by the Akufo - Addo Government was the first ever increase in the Capitation Grant since 2009, meaning in all the 8 years that our friends, the social democrats, were in office.

[63] Hayek was defended by Professor Antony Flew who stated that the German Social Democrats, unlike the British Labour Party, had, since the late 1950s, abandoned public ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange and had instead embraced the social market ecSocial Democrats, unlike the British Labour Party, had, since the late 1950s, abandoned public ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange and had instead embraced the social market ecsocial market economy.

By SLF Co-Chair Gareth Epps It's not just social Liberals and those Liberal Democrats least comfortable with the coalition that have expressed dismay at the proposal that has become known as «shares for rights».

«The Social Liberal Forum welcomes the vote by the Liberal Democrat conference not to support Andrew Lansley's Health and Social Care Bill.

Responding to the vote (by 314 to 270) of the Liberal Democrat Conference to reject a call from Shirley Williams to support the Health and Social Care, Dr Evan Harris — who proposed the deletion of the lines which...

We (I was the Liberal Democrats» director of policy between 1999 and 2004) developed a modern restatement of the social liberalism, called «New Liberalism» in its day, espoused by Hobhouse: social liberalism, greened and decentralised to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

His message of «entitlements in exchange for responsibility» caught fire and brought «Reagan Democrats» (looking for something different from the typical social model endorsed by liberals) into the fold.

Its politics are also more left - wing than England's, with a centre left government of the European social democrat style - but again, the idea that Scots are uniformly, or even mostly, sympathetic towards benefits claimants and the such like is unsupported by evidence.

The Greens polled 3.6 %, while the continuing Liberals fared poorly, and the continuing Social Democrats were beaten even by the Monster Raving Loonies.

It sets out the Social Liberal Forum's proposals for the economy, which we hope to see adopted by the Liberal Democrats as a distinct policy from both...

By unfairly caricaturing David Miliband, a moderate, modernising social democrat, as a Blairite continuity candidate, his most vocal supporters hurt their own candidate in a way which ultimately proved decisive in a knife - edge electoral college.

This post is written by Paul Hindley, Member of the Social Liberal Forum and the Liberal Democrats from Blackpool, and recently graduated from Lancaster University.

The Liberal Democrats were formed on 3 March 1988 by a merger between the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party, which had formed a pact nearly seven years earlier as the SDP — Liberal Alliance.

As a member of the Social Liberal Forum Council and Executive, he published the SLF's acclaimed economic platform, Plan C, and has argued for social liberal approaches to a sustainable economy by serving on two Liberal Democrat policy working groups (Inequality, and Sources of Sustainable Jobs and ProspeSocial Liberal Forum Council and Executive, he published the SLF's acclaimed economic platform, Plan C, and has argued for social liberal approaches to a sustainable economy by serving on two Liberal Democrat policy working groups (Inequality, and Sources of Sustainable Jobs and Prospesocial liberal approaches to a sustainable economy by serving on two Liberal Democrat policy working groups (Inequality, and Sources of Sustainable Jobs and Prosperity).

Graham Winyard has a long history of working in the NHS (having been Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Medical Director of the NHS in England) and is one of the key names behind a petition launched by the Winchester Liberal Democrats (http://www.winld.org.uk/nhs-petition/) to drop the Health and Social Care Bill.

Catherine Murphy was selected to be the Social Democrats candidate for the next general election at a convention on 17th July 2016, as reported by the KFM Radio website.

The biggest decline in comparision with the previous poll conducted by the same newspaper in mid-March recorded the Social Democrats» support shrinking from 10.6 % to 4.4 %.

But then, thrown into the lively mix, I can reveal, is the plan by a former founder member of the old breakaway Social Democratic Party, Professor Stephen Haseler, to stand an anti coalition Liberal Democrat candidate.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have welcomed the announcement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services that the Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act will be implemented in full from today (6th April 2018).

The Liberal Democrats must lead this democratic fight and they can only do it by sticking to their historic roots as a centre - left, social liberal, active party.

The «political social media user» cohort represented by these 22 % of internet users voted for Republican congressional candidates over Democratic candidates by a 45 % -41 % margin, and Republicans» enthusiasm for using social media matched that of Democrats.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats are calling for the implementation of the Social Services and Well - being (Wales) Act to be delayed, amid concerns by a legal expert that they're being rushed.

After months of campaigning, leading to an election, followed by weeks of negotiation, the German Social Democrats and Merkel's CDU / CSU have finally agreed to form a grand coalition.

This strategy is by now a standard attempt to appeal beyond conventional constituencies: Labour wants to be the party of capitalists as well as workers, the Conservatives desire social liberals in addition to their traditional base, and the Liberal Democrats target people who don't fit in but want to be liked.

«The Welsh Liberal Democrat policy sets out a new liberal vision for higher education that builds on the core principles that access to higher education should be determined by academic ability and not social background.

The Socialists and Christian Democrats are open to some reform of the EU in line with the message expressed by Juncker in his campaign for the presidency of the EU Commission for a social Europe and solidarity between member states.

The Social Liberal Forum therefore calls on the Government to revive demand in the private economy by investing directly in skills training and small business development, as outlined by the recent Liberal Democrat conference motion Fairness in a time of Austerity.

And crucially he could not convincingly make the case for a social democrat country, given that his own time in government was beset by the free market dogma which has poisoned Labour and Tory administrations since Thatcher.

With the cameras it uses to cover Congress shut off by the Republicans, C - SPAN turned to social media feeds to beam live coverage of the House Democrats» protest to the public.

Obama intended the prospect of the fiscal cliff's dramatic mandatory cuts in social programs to extort progressive Congressional Democrats into agreeing to inflict severe austerity by voting in favor of what Obama hoped would be massive cuts in social programs and the safety net adopted by the Congressional «super committee» created by the same bipartisan austerity deal that created the «fiscal cliff.»