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They decided to establish political boycotts against Austria, should the new coalition become a reality.
When Austria’s new coalition government was sworn in, the boycotts ensued.
Even Cameron’s coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, have voiced concerns about the risks of an exit.
The opposition countered with the argument that a coalition government would counter the country’s deep political polarization, while helping to establish stronger checks and balances.
Voters punished the nationalist MHP severely for its obstructionism following the June election, when it refused all offers to join a coalition government.
And that would be the case even if German Chancellor Angela Merkel had managed to forge a coalition between her Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the Bavaria-based Christian Social Union (CSU), the Free Democrats (FDP), and the Greens.
Of course, things might be different if the Social Democrats (SPD) agree to rejoin the CDU and CSU in a grand coalition government.
That’s right: while almost every other European country (including Germany) is struggling to form a government, or has settled for an unstable ruling coalition, the provincial strongmenin Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary can guarantee stability.
In Italy, the far-right League party, which governs in a coalition with the populist Five Star Movement (M5S), has also entered into a cooperation agreement with United Russia.
The focus of the fight now moves to the US Congress, where a rare coalition of liberal Democrats and isolationist Republicans will try to block the president’s plans.
Humiliation was a force strong enough to unite leftists and nationalists, laying the groundwork for the creation of an unconventional post-election coalition between Syriza and the hard-right Independent Greeks party.
Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gained the first absolute majority in the lower house of parliament in a quarter-century, thereby freeing it from the pressures and constraints of coalition governance.
He claimed that he meant only that a two-state solution was not achievable under current conditions, as long as the Palestinian Authority is in a coalition with Hamas and as long as vacated territories bring the “rise of militant Islam.”
The goal is not to enlist Japan in any anti-Chinese coalition, but rather to increase the depth and breadth of US-Japanese cooperation.
Because the conservatives of Helmut Kohl did not address it, Gerhard Schroeder's left coalition had to.
As the riots surrounding the failed World Trade Organization conference in Seattle demonstrated, a coalition of labor, environmental, and human rights advocates is intent on sabotaging the WTO, the institutional embodiment of global trade.
His coalition government, despite some internal bickering, was expected to serve out its term.
The bill, which emphasizes Israel’s Jewish identity above its democratic principles, has caused deep divisions not only among the electorate, but also within the government coalition.
And if the centrist alliance finishes first in the election, it will still need coalition partners to form a majority in the Knesset.
The opposition, grouped in the Pro-National Conference Organization (PRONACO), a new umbrella coalition of political parties and human rights groups, has said it would convene an alternative national conference in June.
Add to that corruption scandals involving Bachelet’s son and weaknesses in the ruling center-left coalition, and the center right’s return to power in the 2017 presidential election seems increasingly likely.
But even though Syria was suffering a severe balance-of-payments deficit, several years of drought, and reduced foreign aid, it rebuffed the Saudi coalition.
Not only did the Northern League – an important component of Silvio Berlusconi’s ousted right-wing coalition – favor a weak euro, but it also favored pulling Italy out of the euro altogether.
A voluntary coalition of liberal democracies willing to put their own soldiers in harm's way isn't good enough.
If a country or coalition of countries other than the UN Security Council uses force, even as a last resort, "anarchy", not international law, would prevail, destroying all hope of world order.
Those who opposed the actions of the coalition in Iraq usually fall back on the answer that "order" must have primacy over "anarchy".
It took a coalition of the willing to save Bosnia from extinction.
It was an attempt to preserve the peace (and the security of the relatively weak Austrian Empire) through a coalition of victors upholding shared values.
Over the last year, the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has struck four health facilities supported by the non-governmental organization Doctors Without Borders.
This will make it difficult for the next president to pursue his legislative program, unless he manages to secure the support of a broad coalition.
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