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Italy votes and anxious Europe shudders
… Europe breathed a collective sigh of relief when the German Social Democratic Party announced its members had approved its coalition agreement with Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic … Not surprisingly, on Monday Renzi announced he would step down as leader once a new government was in place. On Mar. 23 …
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Collective sigh of relief in EU as Finland narrowly approves financing of recovery plan
… headed by Prime Minister Sanna Marin is a five-party coalition that includes the Social Democratic Party, the … to have made in the course of post-election coalition talks about finding a position for an individual. After … preventing Germany’s ratification of the ORD, the German Constitutional Court nevertheless said the …
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Battling economic insecurity with Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro
… to consider the hard work and nitty-gritty politics of coalition building that has accompanied all successful major … better health care. Shapiro recently spoke to Yale News about the book. Why prioritize economic insecurity over … system, this puts great pressure on employers to hold down wages and to cut back on what the plans cover. This will …
European Studies Council
Recap: VISIONS OF ECOLOGY on Art and the Environment in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, EVENT #5: Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe
… Eastern Europe and Eurasia supported by the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) program at the … titled,  “Dead Landscape, Deserted Village: Filming East German Ecology Before and After 1989.”   East Germany’s final … the possibility of nuclear war or disaster were able to break through in both Soviet and Soviet bloc cinemas, thus …
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In the Second Nuclear Age, Information Advantage Defines the Balance of Power
… United States and the Soviet Union entered arms-control talks and developed a set of shared expectations. The … China, possibly with North Korea and Pakistan. You have coalition dynamics. How do we keep our coalition together? … tank world, where the biggest single difficulty is to break out of the current mindset. Today, all anyone can think …
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After another election setback, the CDU moves up date for choosing new leader
… a state election—this one on Sunday in Hamburg—today the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) moved up the date for … days ahead. Last week, after AKK announced she would step down as party leader, Norbert Röttgen, who has been the chair … the national party since then, and has headed the CDU-FDP coalition government in the state since 2017. It’s not …