Sentences with phrase «coalition partners agreed»

At a meeting on Monday evening, Angela Merkel and leaders of her party's coalition partners agreed that the federal government will take over the full cost of the country's financial aid program for university students — which will amount to a $ 1.2 billion savings for state budgets each year.

Responding to popular pressure, Merkel's conservatives and their left - leaning Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners agreed on Thursday to tighten asylum rules, reaching a compromise on how to stem the influx of migrants.

Not exact matches

This could be undertaken in a formal coalition or an informal arrangement known as confidence and supply, where a smaller party agrees to back the larger partner in crucial votes in return for policies but does not take ministerial seats.

We have been campaigning with our partners to end this abhorrent policy for years, and are delighted that this is one area of immigration policy the coalition immediately agreed on.

Part of making politics more sophisticated is admitting that when your party is in power as a junior partner in a coalition government, that it may have to support things that as a party it doesn't corporately agree with to gain influence on less palatable elements of the bigger partner's agenda and to implement at least part of its own.

Both candidates agree that the eventual aim was to get the party into a position where it can be in a coalition government again, though both have ruled out entering into a coalition without a guarantee of electoral reform from their governing partner.

We may not agree with everything our coalition partners say — they certainly don't agree with everything I say — but that's the point.

This coalition represents a fantastic vehicle for change, and we look forward to working with our partners to develop internationally agreed standards in the near future.»

Their Liberal Democrat coalition partners were opposed, but have agreed to support the Conservatives» plans in government.

The speech may be delayed because the coalition partners can not agree on «sexy» policies to announce

An organization is a «partner» in the Coalition when they have agreed to support the growth of community schools around the country.