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Local elections take place in Germany and Italy
RTE.ie
Local elections are taking place in Germany and Italy today where Angela Merkel and Mario Monti will get insights into their leadership ahead of nationalelections. Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a knife-edge state election that could provide vital ...
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Merkel's party set for photo finish in state vote
Chicago Tribune
... Germans voted a new parliament in the state of Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday, with Angela Merkel's conservatives fighting to prevent a loss of localpower to their Social Democrat rivals that could dent the chancellor's 2013 re-election hopes.
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Italy local vote provides test for Monti austerity
Chicago Tribune
ROME (Reuters) - Italians went to the polls in local elections on Sunday that will provide the first concrete test of voter resistance to Prime Minister Mario Monti's increasingly unpopular austerity policies since he came to office last year.
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German state votes in test for Merkel's coalition
Huffington Post
About 2.24 million people were eligible to vote, but turnout at 38 percent by early afternoon local time was lower than in the previous state elections, according to the state's election commission. Recent polls showed the state's current coalition ...
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Hamish McRae: Why France must be more like Germany
The Independent
Click here to view the graphic There are some local elections in Italy that will give some sort of feeling as to the support for the "technocratic" government of Mario Monti. There will also be a local election in Schleswig-Holstein, inGermany, ...
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In German 2012 Elections, Pirates Rule the Vote
PolicyMic
In Germany, little seems to be more influential in politics than the countless local elections of the country. Each and every one of them has an impact on the federal level, and they happen often. Alone in 2012, three German states have already voted, ...
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Hollande, Sarkozy Square Off in France in Key Vote for Euro Zone
Wall Street Journal
By WILLIAM HOROBIN PARIS—French voters took to the polls Sunday to select their next president, in a closely watched election that could influence the euro zone's response to its protracted sovereign-debt crisis, after a campaign overshadowed by the ...
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French voters to decide republic's fate
Sydney Morning Herald
Germany and Italy were staging regional and local elections that would also serve as barometers of voters' anger. These polls come only days after British voters humiliated Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron - and effectively slammed his tough ...
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Campaigning over, politicians await critical Greek vote
Chicago Tribune
Local media underlined the importance of the vote as a ban in campaigning came into effect a day before the polls opened. "With the tough dilemma of staying in the euro or bankruptcy, voters head to the polls in the most crucialelection showdown in ...
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French election outcome unlikely to rock local bourse: analysts
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Taipei, May 6 (CNA) The outcome of the French presidential election Sunday will likely have only limited impact on the local bourse, analysts said that day. Despite wide expectations that French President Nicolas Sarkozy's Socialist rival, ...
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Sarkozy faces defeat as France heads to polls |
Reuters
By John Irish and Sybille de La Hamaide | PARIS (Reuters) - France voted on Sunday in elections which could crown Francois Hollande as its first Socialist president in nearly two decades, marking a leftward shift at the heart of Europe and making ...
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Parliamentary, presidential, local elections ongoing
B92
BELGRADE -- The Serbian citizens are on Sunday voting in parliamentary, presidential, provincial and local elections. 18 lists are standing for elections, hoping to win more seats in the ninth convocation of the Serbian parliament since the ...
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France votes in presidential runoff between Sarkozy and Hollande
New York Post
The French presidential head-to-head was the highlight of a busy day of voting across the eurozone, with debt-plagued Greece voting in a general election, regional elections in Germany set to test Chancellor Angela Merkel's popularity, and local ...
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New York Post
Angry Greeks vote in cliffhanger election
Reuters
Many feel that threats about Greece's future in Europe if they do not stay the debt-cutting course are not credible despite a warning from euro zone paymaster Germany that there would be "consequences" to an anti-bailout vote.
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Unease on the Western Front
Hindustan Times
Just a day before the French polls, the results of local government elections in Britain would have stirred Hollande and other European socialists. The ruling Conservative party was mauled, punished for Prime Minister David Cameron's spending cuts.
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UK Pirate Party Breaks Election Record
TorrentFreak
In Germany and Austria Pirates have good chance of entering the national parliament in the next election, and in the UK things are picking up steam as well. In this weeks local elections Pirate Party leader Loz Kaye picked up 5% of the vote, ...
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TorrentFreak
Armenia's parliamentary vote a test for Sarkisian
WGME
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) -- Armenians are voting for a new parliament, and the nation's president hopes the election will give him a majority among the legislators. President Serge Sarkisian's Republican Party is expected to win Sunday's election, ...
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Voters to weigh in on eurozone crisis
Tampabay.com
Today's elections are likely to see new leaders brought to power on pledges to revisit their countries' strict adherence to the austerity and fiscal discipline prescribed by Germany as the cure for Europe's ills. That the challenges come from these two ...
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Tampabay.com
Sarkozy faces defeat as France heads to polls
GMA News
PARIS - France voted on Sunday in elections which could crown Francois Hollande as its first Socialist president in nearly two decades, marking a leftward shift at the heart of Europe and making Nicolas Sarkozy the region's 11th leader to be toppled by ...
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Europe sets sights on life after 'Merkozy'
Sydney Morning Herald
Elsewhere in Europe, pro-austerity politicians in Greek parliamentary and Italian local elections were preparing for a battering at the polls. After weeks of increasing warnings that rigid austerity measures were hampering economic recovery, ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Syrian opposition figures urge election boycott
WGME
Congress is considering plans to take spectrum away from local TV stations and sell it to other industries that would charge the public monthly subscription fees. Some in Congress want to sell local TV ... The Budget Control Act of 2011 created a joint ...
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Greeks vote in cliffhanger election
Stuff.co.nz
Euro zone paymaster Germany has warned there would be "consequences" to an anti-bailout vote and the EU and IMF insist whoever wins the election must keep implementing tough austerity measures to keep receiving the aid the debt-choked country needs to ...
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Germany: Neonazi-Salafi clashes in Bonn, 30 police hurt
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia
... advice of the local authorities. Some Salafis broke through a police security cordon and attacked the exhibition space with sticks and stones. The incident is part of the election campaign in North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populousGerman state, ...
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Libya says 330000 voters register for June poll
FRANCE 24
A Libyan polling official shows a ballot as he waits for voters duringlocal elections in February 2012. The chief of Libya's electioncommission says 330000 people have so far registered as voters to elect the nation's first constituent assembly in ...
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FRANCE 24
Extreme right on the rise in Greece
The News Journal
It's one that could see Europe's most extreme right deputies take up seats in Greece's Parliament in crucial elections today. Black-clad Golden Dawn party members have been storming across the campaign trail in Greece, stopping to chat at cafes and ...
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Marika Mitsotakis, wife of former Greek PM, dies
WGME
Their daughter, Dora Bakoyannis, a former mayor of Athens and a former foreign minister, is running in Sunday's election at the head of centrist Democratic Coalition. The couple's only son, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is seeking re-election with the ...
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Serbia votes in general elections on Sunday
EMportal
The Serbian people will vote on Sunday, May 6, to elect the new president and national, provincial and local parliaments.The total number of polling stations in Serbia and abroad is 8390 and 7026579 voters will be able to use them.
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Greece votes as anxious eurozone looks on
AlterNet
Greeks voted Sunday in a tough-to-predict general election that threatened to turn the crisis-hit country's old political system on its head and bring eurozone turmoil back with a vengeance. Alexis Tsipras, leader of the Left Coalition party Syriza, ...
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AlterNet
Euro fans face 'criminal' police
CNN International
According to the report, one recent case in the western city of Lviv -- whereGermany, Portugal and Denmark will play -- details how two men were beaten, robbed and then imprisoned by six police officers after a disagreement in a bar.
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France divides... and Europe pays the price
The Independent
Mr Hollande insists that this is a European as well as a French election. His victory, he says, would rescue the floundering European Union from itsGerman-imposed obsession with austerity and create new growth and hope through EU-wide capital ...
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Hollande's Expected Victory Casts Shadow On Franco-German Motor
Arutz Sheva
By Amiel Ungar As the realization set in that the victory of Francoise Hollande in the French presidential elections was all but inevitable, concern focused on the state of the Franco-Germanmotor of the European Union. German Chancellor Angela Merkel,...
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Arutz Sheva
Austerity fires voter vengeance against euro
Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
Increasingly, Europeans are becoming resentful of Germany and the EU. Already, the governments of Greece, Italy and Spain have been threatened by their voters. Notably, a pro-Germangovernment in Holland has fallen in local elections, ...
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Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
Yulia Tymoshenko: Ukraine's bruised firebrand
The Guardian
Last week, Angela Merkel announced she and the entire German cabinet will boycott the 2012 European football championships, which Ukraine is co-hosting with Poland, unless Tymoshenko is freed. Merkel said she wouldn't attendGermany's match against the ...
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Sarkozy or Hollande? A Critical Choice for the Future of the EU
NEWS JUNKIE POST
On Sunday May 6, France will elect its next president. Beside the consequences for French people, this presidential election has geopolitical and economic ramifications for the policies, the cohesion, and even the survival of the European Union.
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Bad Week In Europe Spells Opportunity (FXE, EUO, EWP, EWI, EFZ)
Wall Street Sector Selector
Local elections in Germany and Italy will exhibit public mood towards their respective national governments and ongoing austerity programs. Spain's unemployment continues to be more than troublesome with 25% of the population unemployed and more than ...
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Venus Williams beats Halep in Madrid 1st round
KFVS
Greeks began voting at precisely 7 am local time (0400 GMT, 12 am EDT) in their most critical - and uncertain - election in decades, with voters set to punish the two main parties that are being held responsible for the... Greeks cast ballots on Sunday ...
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Who Killed Europe? A Provocation - Analysis
Eurasia Review
To consider the Germans as responsible for the current crisis is rich in irony. For most of the postwar era, the Germans, occupying the divided heart of Europe and eager to prove their devotion to the West, were consistently the most Europhile of the ...
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Eurasia Review
European stocks fall as Spain enters a recession
Taipei Times
Local elections will test Italy's political pulse, and voters in a northern state may deal a symbolic blow to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition. “It still looks as if Francois Hollande will end up owning the keys of the Elysee Palace come ...
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Greece starts voting as anxious eurozone looks on
AlterNet
Greece started voting on Sunday in an early general election that threatens to turn its decades-old political system on its head and bring the eurozone crisis back with a vengeance. A Socialist party supporter is seen before party leader Evangelos ...
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AlterNet
EUR/USD Outlook May 7-11 | Forex Crunch
By Yohay
In the long run, Germany will have to adapt itself to the new atmosphere. A surprise victory for Sarkozy will boost the euro in the short term. Local German elections: Sunday. Angela Merkel's CDU party is expected to lose ground in the small ...
Forex Crunch
Local elections take place in Germany and Italy
Local elections are taking place in Germany and Italy today where Angela ...faces a knife-edge state election that could provide vital clues to Germany'spolitical ...
www.rte.ie/.../local-elections-take-place-in-germany-and-italy....
German doctors to treat Tymoshenko at local hospital
Ukraine's prison service said Friday that German doctors are at a prison ...German doctors to treat Tymoshenko at local hospital ... They charge that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Tymoshenko's rival in the 2010 presidential election, ...
www.foxnews.com/.../german-doctors-visit-jailed-tymoshenko...
In German 2012 Elections, Pirates Rule the Vote
The Pirate Boat - Still big enough for a new Federal German Party? ... InGermany , little seems to be more influential in politics than the countless local elections ...
www.policymic.com/.../in-german-2012-elections-pirates-rule-...
Hamish McRae: Why France must be more like Germany
There will also be a local election in Schleswig-Holstein, in Germany, which will be ... Taken as a whole, German industry has made a quite remarkable recovery ...
www.independent.co.uk/.../hamish-mcrae-why-france-must-be...
Party plans Mohammed cartoons 'election tactic' - The Local
The Local: Germany's news in English ... the state in the run-up to theelection on May 13, staging protests in Cologne, Bonn, ... The election there is on May 13.
www.thelocal.de/politics/20120430-42257.html
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