Archive for September, 2005

September 19, 2005

Germany

German election: Preliminary Final Results

by Tobias Schwarz

Official preliminary final results for today’s election of the German Bundestag, excluding the electoral district 160 in Dresden where a by-election will be held in two weeks, have just been released.

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Governments and parties

Uncool runnings

by Mrs Tilton

It’s a highly unlikely result, I’d think. And it’s one nobody had talked about before tonight. But I think I ought to mention it here, if only because its name is so cute.

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September 18, 2005

Governments and parties

Where to find the German election results

by Mrs Tilton

In a comment to Tobias’s post below, Guerby complains that he/she/they can’t find the election results.
Well, then, look here. Updated every ten minutes. Since my last post, the Union have widened their lead over SPD to a full percentage point; but FDP are back down to single digits. All just changes round the margin, though; [...]

Governments and parties

Apparently 粗大塵 does not mean what I, judging by the context, had thought it means

by Mrs Tilton

I’ve been harshing on the Union and their little dog Toto the FDP pretty nastily throughout the campaign.1 Surely, though, I should spare a thought for Die Linke.
It’s easy to fail to pay the ‘Left Party’ the attention they deserve, mostly because nobody is likely to form a coalition with them. But still it [...]

Germany

Grand coalition under Schröder?

by Tobias Schwarz

CDU advertising for SchröderBeing stuck in a traffic jam is probably not the best place to be to blog about the German election. On the other hand, it may well be an excellent metaphor for the result of today’s German elections, which Mrs T sketched below. Hearing the results on the radio, the first thing [...]

Governments and parties

The results begin to harden

by Mrs Tilton

Those numbers are starting to gel. There’s been movement, as one would expect, but mostly on the right-hand side of the decimal point. SPD look to have polled very slightly better, the Union very slightly worse than it seemed an hour ago. (But NB: Hessia is still uncertain.)
Schrder has just spoken. On the one [...]

Governments and parties

First results

by Mrs Tilton

The first preliminary projections in the German election have been released, as usual, at 18.00. As expected, the Union have the most votes. As unexpected, they’re not doing nearly as well as people had thought, polling a mere 2% ahead of the SPD at 35.7%. Of those 10 million voters ‘undecided’ as the campaign drew [...]

The European Union

Think-Tank Policy-Wonking

by Edward Hugh

What better way to spend a quiet Sunday afternoon whiling the hours away before the imminent German election results and Bara’s next away match than leafing through think-tank papers?
Well at least I have found myself a good thread to feed me them:
“Policypointers is an online facility created to enable those involved in government, academe and [...]

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September 17, 2005

Germany

German Election Primer

by Tobias Schwarz

With only one night left to sleep before German voters (about 10 million of whom are allegedly still “undecided”) will be asked to decide about the composition of the next Bundestag, and probably, though not necessarily, about the composition of their next government, Spiegel Online’s English language service kindly prepared a contextualised (links to articles [...]

The European Union

The Outermost Regions

by Douglas Muir

In the comments to a recent post, the question arose of the “natural boundaries” of the EU. Apropos of that, let us briefly consider those parts of the EU that are outside of Europe. Sometimes very far outside.
The EU has a formal name for these territories: they are “the Outermost Regions of Europe”. [...]

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