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One comfort, perhaps, for the democrats is that right now China is failing to learn the Singaporean lesson, too.
For example, social democrats could promote a European minimum wage;Greens could advocate for a Europe-wide energy policy that does not rely on nuclear power; and conservatives might champion lower taxes across Europe.
And self-proclaimed illiberal democrats are in power in Hungary and Poland.
While populists regard the rule of law as malleable or negotiable, Europe’s democrats understand that it is the essential bond holding our civilization together.
It also characterizes the political situation in the US after the defeat of the Democrats in last November's mid-term elections.
LONDON – With Labour trailing the Conservatives slightly in opinion polls, the British election on May 6 could well produce a “hung” parliament, in which neither major party obtains a majority and the Liberal Democrats hold the balance of power.
In Britain’s first ever “presidential” television debate the youthful Nick Clegg stole the show for the Liberal Democrats with his freshness and directness.
Only the Liberal Democrats are committed to a big cut: scrapping Britain’s nuclear submarines.
Against this backdrop of programmatic unity, the difference of opinion among leading Democrats concerning Wall Street – both the specifics of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms and more broadly – stands out in bold relief.
On Dodd-Frank, Democrats – including Obama – are apparently of two minds on the extent to which they should stick up for their own reforms.
Even Cameron’s coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, have voiced concerns about the risks of an exit.
And the markers that have been laid down by congressional Democrats are very clear, quite specific, and well thought-out.
And, in October 2011, the House approved the much-debated US-Korea Free Trade Agreement with 59 Democrats in favor.
Democrats are pushing for provisions to prohibit or limit currency-market intervention by central banks that is intended to give a country’s exporters a competitive edge.
Surveys show that the two main political forces, conservatives and social democrats, are still running close (and far ahead of the rest); however the rise of populism is deeply worrying to everyone who believes in European unity – not only conservatives and social democrats, but also liberals and greens.
Though Netanyahu received many rounds of applause when he addressed Congress, more than 60 Democrats boycotted his speech.
(But, interestingly, the switch from Silvio Berlusconi to Romano Prodi in Italy is having a less dramatic effect on Italy’s foreign policy because of the country’s greater defense dependence on the US.)Naturally, with socialists and social democrats in power in some EU countries, and conservatives in power in others, it is difficult for Europeans to find a single voice.
Muddling Out of FreefallNEW YORK – Defeat in the Massachusetts senatorial election has deprived America’s Democrats of the 60 votes needed to pass health-care reform and other legislation, and it has changed American politics – at least for the moment.
Trying to “square the circle” between the need to stimulate the economy and please the deficit hawks, Obama has proposed deficit reductions that, while alienating liberal democrats, were too small to please the hawks.
This should be the task for social democrats – but that is where the shoe pinches.
We social democrats can no longer fight such battles, because the problem is not only ideological, but also cultural.
Democrats, including President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee to succeed him, largely support these policies.
Congratulations, President Macron – Now We Oppose YouATHENS – Prior to the second round of the French Presidential election, DiEM25 (the pan-European movement of democrats, mostly of the left, that I helped to found) promised Emmanuel Macron that we would “mobilize fully to help” him defeat Marine Le Pen.
Perhaps voters detest the political establishment because it is corrupt (as in Brazil and Mexico), or because it obtains its power through murky campaign finance (as in the United States), or because it was in power too long, overstaying its welcome (as with social democrats in much of Europe and the Popular Party in Spain).
But Putin’s actions in Ukraine have done more than humble Russia’s democrats.
Chinese think long term because they are Chinese, not because they are not democrats.
This will remain true as long as democrats remain convinced of it.
Only the misbehavior of democrats can do that.
According to a 2014 Brookings Institution poll, a massive 84% of Democrats and 60% of Republicans would favor a one-state solution, in which a single democratic government guarantees equal rights for all citizens, Israeli and Palestinian.
The Liberal Democrats under Nick Clegg have surged remarkably, and may even push ahead of Labour in the popular vote.
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