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The grand coalition envisions abolishing this tax for everyone except the top 10% of earners, who generate more than half of the revenue from it.
All told, nobody is particularly enthusiastic about the coalition agreement, including the SPD.
But as the provisional coalition agreement acknowledges, Germany will likely fall short of its target for reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 2020, suggesting that these subsidies have not worked.
Nevertheless, the coalition agreement does include some promising ideas.
There is still time for the coalition partners to revise their program.
In this case, Berlusconi’s forces could ally themselves with Pier Ferdinando Casini’s centrist Catholic party, or work to form a coalition with their center-left adversary, the Democratic Party, led by Walter Veltroni.
The Catholics of the Union of Christian and Center Democrats and the post-fascist right of Francesco Storace have left the coalition.
The Communist Party and the Socialists have left the coalition that Prodi forged to gain his parliamentary majority.
Syriza is more a coalition than a unified party, meaning that its leader, Alexis Tsipras, must reconcile moderate socialists, including some of his economic advisers, with radical left-wing members.
While India’s president may be only a ceremonial head of state, during periods of political instability – especially in the current age of coalition governments – it is the president who makes crucial decisions about governing parties.
A Chinese military posture that is too aggressive could produce a countervailing coalition among its neighbors, thereby weakening China’s hard and soft power.
They saved him from defeat; a narrow majority of West German voters preferred the CDU/CSU (40.8 percent) to the SPD (38.3) and a center-right coalition (48.4) to a "red-green" one (47.7).
For AIPAC – which has traditionally relied on a broad coalition of social and political forces in the US that view Israel’s security as both a moral cause and a vital national interest – this is not any old defeat.
An odd coalition of Iranian radicals, AIPAC, the Saudi-led Sunni alliance, the Israeli government, and US politicians from both parties have already compelled Obama to promise additional sanctions on Iran for its sponsorship of terrorism.
It remains to be seen whether Italy can assemble a coalition of economically progressive and politically pragmatic countries to overcome German conservatism and dogmatism.
Thailand’s endgame is being shaped by several key events: the military coup of September 2006, the current military-supported constitution and election in 2007, street protests and seizures of Government House and Bangkok’s airports in 2008, the army-brokered coalition government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva that has ruled since January this year, and the Bangkok riots in April.
Would Russia or a coalition of willing countries have the right to attempt to alter Apophis’ orbit without the approval of other states?
In Germany, talks to form a center-left, center-right coalition have broken down.
Many hoped that Merkel would succeed in forging a “Jamaica” coalition (named after the colors of that country’s flag).
Even without a Jamaica coalition, Germany still has a stable liberal majority in the Bundestag.
Against this backdrop, it is especially ironic to see Kurdish women soldiers in the front line of the United States-led coalition fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
Social democrats govern in coalition governments with laissez-faire conservatives.
But this proved insufficient to halt a growing sense of drift and decay concerning his Congress Party-led coalition.
The two main parties, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), along with its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), were punished at the ballot box, after having governed as a grand coalition under Chancellor Angela Merkel for the past four years.
All told, the election was a landslide against Merkel’s grand coalition.
With the SPD refusing to participate in a grand coalition, the only mathematically viable option that remains is a “Jamaica” alliance – named for Jamaica’s black, yellow, and green flag – comprising the CDU/CSU, the liberal Free Democrats, and the Greens.
Moreover, the domestic political calendar will most likely prolong the coalition talks.
The only alternatives to a Jamaica coalition are a CDU/CSU minority government or a new election next spring, which would probably only strengthen the AfD’s position.
They can start by making security, economic reform, and ecological and digital modernization the three pillars of a new kind of coalition.
Or they could piece together a working majority from smaller political parties and try to govern in an unstable coalition beset by deep policy disagreements.
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