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The crisis of the traditional centrist parties, which have been essential to building and maintaining consensus in the European Union – even as they have struggled to implement needed reforms – is also far from resolved.
According to the political scientist Sarah Binder, the ideological divide between America’s two main political parties has not been as large as it is now since the end of the nineteenth century.
Political parties, however, have become more consistently ideological since the 1970s.
Chen squandered six valuable years as his administration engaged mainly in polemics with its opposition parties while he pandered to the extreme wing of the DPP and mobilized his government to “de-Sinicize” Taiwan culture.
Opposition parties have not been banned, and the courts have not lost their independent authority.
In fact, Roma-bashing is helping far-right political parties to mobilize and nationalist leaders to win votes.
Even some mainstream political parties have resorted to using anti-Roma rhetoric that would have been inconceivable a decade ago.
All of this has been accomplished in the face of fierce criticism from the opposition parties, especially those that governed Greece during the last 30 years and thus are responsible for driving it to ruin.
Aside from achieving what the EU now deems a “functioning market economy,” key political and legal changes, which I have overseen as Minister of Justice, range from increased transparency and control in the funding of political parties to a shakeup of the judiciary.
On January 28, a peaceful but “unauthorized” demonstration by opposition parties was brutally repressed by the police and three presidential candidates were arrested for the day.
Even traditionally leftist parties like Brazil’s Partido dos Trabalhadores or Uruguay’s Frente Amplio have abandoned old Marxist ideals.
Building the institutions of a market economy should be the main focus, not alignment with expensive EU standards in food production or the environment;The EU should gradually phase out its Common Agricultural Policy, which primarily benefits owners of large farms, and instead develop new instruments of financial assistance for its own poor regions and its new neighbours;Current EU members and successful candidate countries could make available large-scale training programmes in market-relevant disciplines for the young generation in CIS countries;Taking as a model the Stability Pact in the Balkans, the EU could offer concrete incentives, such as economic assistance and the prospect of closer integration, to stimulate parties to end unresolved regional conflicts in the Caucasus, Transdniestria and Central Asia;The main actors providing international assistance - including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, EBRD, the EU itself and the United Nations Development Programme - should ensure a minimum level of co-ordination to avoid duplication and waste.
A lot of the money and power in Polish politics resides at the local level, and opposition parties already control 15 of Poland’s 16 states (voivodeships) and all major cities.
Despite its name, which means “Together,” it refuses to enter into any kind of alliance with the mainstream parties, including SLD, even though both parties failed to meet the electoral threshold in the last parliamentary election.
Polls indicate that if all of the parties on the left united, they would secure 16% of the vote.
Because activists were reluctant to begin campaigning while rebels were still fighting, they held back on forming political parties.
As a result, only two parties have been created in a country that has no experience with pluralist democracy.
Communists saw social democrats as a greater danger than Nazis; and leftwing intellectuals were distracted by the hypocrisy and corruption of mainstream parties they really should have supported.
Political parties that oppose the anti-liberal trends are in a serious bind.
Similar shifts have occurred in other European countries when established parties and traditions fell apart.
This week, we commit the US and the EU to combat illegal fishing, to strengthen our monitoring, and to enforce management measures in our role as parties to regional fishery organizations and to various international treaties.
Current Commission President José Manuel Barroso suggests that ideologically like-minded political parties running in the next European Parliament elections should intensify their cooperation in political “families” that would then jointly nominate candidates for the Commission presidency.
In particular, the perceived need to channel Europe’s existing political families into a two-party system, with social democrats on one side and “people’s parties” on the other, is deeply problematic.
The parties’ rivalry is healthy, though there is a built-in tendency to seek solutions that command a broad social consensus.
The contemporary United States also is not a compelling demonstration that competition between two parties leads to increasing moderation and political centrism.
On the contrary, the partisan struggle can play to the parties’ extremes.
In the Swiss system, several parties compete, but they do not aim to control the government exclusively.
Instead, all the major parties are represented in the government, and are consequently obliged to hammer out compromises.
The negotiations should focus on creating as much value as possible for both parties, including through the bespoke UK-EU free-trade arrangement (FTA) that May aspires to create.
Fairness, openness, and transparency are vital to enable both sides to appraise the prospective gains accurately and efficiently, not to mention to allow the private sector and other parties to contribute innovative solutions.
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