Sentences with phrase «vote on its austerity»

LONDON, Nov 5 - The euro fell to a near two - month low against a broadly firmer dollar on Monday on uncertainty over a Greek vote on austerity and before this week's U.S. presidential election.

Not exact matches

Greece's outspoken finance minister resigned on Monday, removing a major obstacle to any last - minute deal to keep Athens in the euro zone after Greeks voted resoundingly to reject the austerity terms of a bailout.

The Swiss vote was part of a general attack on corporate largesse in Europe, where government austerity has fed a desire to limit Wall Street - style excess in corporate boardrooms.

Tsipras is campaigning for a no vote in the referendum on Sunday, which is officially on whether to accept a tough earlier bailout offer, to impress on EU negotiators that spiralling poverty and a collapse in everyday business activity across Greece has meant further austerity should be ruled out of any new rescue package.

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

Also, many voters - including Leave voters - reacted against austerity last year by voting for Labour, but the Tories have done little to change course on this and may now decide they don't need to.

BRUSSELS (Reuters)- Marine Le Pen's far right National Front scored a stunning first victory in European Parliament elections in France on Sunday as critics of the European Union registered a continent - wide protest vote against austerity and mass unemployment.

Socialists can not vote positively or even abstain on the neo-liberal principles enshrined in the corporate EU's foundational treaties or for its fundamentalist austerity or for Cameron's reforms.

11:56 - I wonder which of the following weak spots David Cameron will zero in on this week: Ed Miliband's contortions following the anti-Syria intervention vote, his shadow chancellor's decision to slowly U-turn on austerity, or the fact the GMB are pulling their most of their funding from the Labour party.

A vote for the Liberal Democrats, on the other hand, is a vote for a party which — wherever we're in power — does it's best to spread the burden of austerity fairly, investing in jobs and help for hard - pressed families.

It has the support of millions of people in the trade unions, has mobilised hundreds of thousands on protests against austerity and inspired hundreds of thousands of people to vote for Jeremy Corbyn.

The Opposition forced a vote for today on the end of austerity measures (not all) in regards to pay cap on public sector jobs.

At least what an account of Labour latest national policy forum revealed here on Left Futures in a piece headlined Trade unions vote against ending austerity in 2015.

At the Dublin European Elections contest, sitting MEP Paul Murphy (Socialist Party / Anti Austerity Alliance) won 29,953 first preference votes (8.5 % of the votes), leaving him in sixth place on the first count, and Brid Smith (People Before Profit Alliance) won 23,875 votes (6.8 %).

Labour's panda strategy — relying on a core vote, bruised by austerity and better motivated than in the dog days of 2010, plus Lib Dem defectors and Tory defectors to UKIP — may be effective even if it is far from magnificent.

And whilst Fianna Fail's vote had marginally recovered from their last general election collapse as a result of their own austerity policies and the catastrophic economic situation which saw the public pay the price for the bank bailouts, the population were clearly not returning in significant numbers, and on the contrary were turning against the right wing establishment parties.

He is seen as different from his competitors, even more so after the recent vote on the welfare bill in which the majority of Labour MPs abstained rather than vote against Tory austerity.

The «No to AV» campaign claims that, at a time when austerity is governing government spending, the country should not waste money on the «alternative vote» proposal.

But it would come at a price, which will include a demand for an end to austerity, more powers and money for Scotland, and another vote on Scottish independence.

The 2017 election rewrote the rules, and though the opinion polls did well in tracking the Corbyn rise and the stagnant Tory vote, the experts largely missed the increasing popularity of Corbyn though by the time Paul Mason wrote in the FT on June 3rd that «the UK is not a left wing country, but it is a fair one that has had enough of austerity» — he captured something of the shifts taking place, and the shifts are not all to Labour.

A Greek demonstrator urges a «no» vote in Sunday's referendum on whether Greece should accept international demands for additional financial austerity.

The Greek parliament has voted narrowly in favour of a package of austerity measures aimed at preventing the nation from defaulting on its debts.

The ongoing economic crisis in Greece jumped ferociously back into the world's headlines this summer, when Greek residents voted to reject European austerity demands and European leaders agreed on a third bailout deal for Greece in exchange for strict reform measures.