Since 1949, the party system has been dominated by the Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

Rita Süssmuth (born 17 February 1937) is a German politician and a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Chancellor Angela Merkel is celebrating a landslide victory, with her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) having fallen just short of an outright parliamentary majority.

In September 1994, two MPs from the majority Christian Democratic Union published a political statement on Europe, questioning its future, particularly the prospect of federalism.

(Signed) Anna Maria Stame Cervone President Christian Democratic Women International

The constituent parties are the Independent Democratic Union ( Unión Demócrata Independiente ), National Renewal ( Renovación Nacional ), ChileFirst ( ChilePrimero ), the movements Grand North ( Norte Grande ), and Christian Humanism ( Humanista Cristiano ).

The FDP can count on about 13 14 of the vote, which means that it may be able to join with Merkel s Christian Democratic Union to form a government.

Whereas electorates across the European Union have punished their governments for the Great Recession and the euro crisis, Germans reelected Chancellor Angela Merkel and displayed strong support for her party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), in the recent election.

Yet Christian Democratic parties today are one of the pillars of European democracy.

It must transform itself into something like the Social Christian or Christian Democratic parties that exist in Costa Rica, Chile, Venezuela, and Peru.

MILAN I have just had the privilege of speaking at the main annual conference of Germany s Economic Council, the economic and business arm of the Christian Democratic Union, the current governing party.

Others, like Nooke, who left some time later, resented the growing cooperation with Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of East Germany, which had formerly been a party in the socialist dominated democratic block of parties and mass organisations and had supported the Communist regime.

Anna Maria Stame Cervone, Christian Democratic Women International (A C.4 60 5 Add.28)

For starters, even if the current Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Free Democrat Party (FDP) coalition forms the next government, Chancellor Angela Merkel could make longer term and more courageous decisions without having to worry about the immediate electoral impact.

Korean Democratic Women's Union, Korea during 24 29 September, 2000.

Korean Democratic Women's Union, Korea during 17 21 June 2000.

The two largest political parties in Croatia are the Croatian Democratic Union and the Social Democratic Party of Croatia.

At the invitation of the Chairman, Ms. Stame Cervone (Christian Democratic Women International) took a place at the petitioners' table.

Andreas Antonius Maria Dries van Agt ( born 2 February 1931) is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).

The Christian Democratic Popular Front voted with the Communist Party for the dismissal of the Alliance government on November 9, 1999.

The clear model for a moderately religious party one committed to the rules of the democratic game are the Christian Democratic parties of Western Europe and, to a lesser extent, Latin America.

The plaintiffs represent the entire political spectrum, including the Left Party, the Christian Social Union MP Peter Gauweiler, and the justice minister in former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder s Social Democratic government, Herta Däubler Gmelin, who has collected tens of thousands of signatures supporting her case.

Of course, Germany under Angela Merkel has adopted a somewhat different stance, owing to the Christian Democratic Party s special relationship with Israel.

Christian Democratic parties first emerged in Belgium and Germany toward the end of the nineteenth century as narrowly focused Catholic interest groups.

The Catholics of the Union of Christian and Center Democrats and the post fascist right of Francesco Storace have left the coalition.

MADRID For decades, critics of the European Union have spoken about a democratic deficit.

He became a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) in 1970 and was a member of the Bundestag from 13 December 1972 to 20 December 1990, (five election periods,) where he represented Tübingen and was affiliated with the hard line right wing Stahlhelm Fraktion.

But it is equally true that Venezuela enjoyed 40 years of democratic rule before Chávez, under the 1958 Punto Fijo Pact, whereby two parties, one social democratic and the other social Christian, alternated in power peacefully.

He presented his Justice and Development Party as the Muslim equivalent of Europe s Christian Democratic parties, combining economic growth, anti corruption policies, and free elections.

In June 1996, Solidarity Electoral Action ( Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność ) was founded as a coalition of over 30 parties, uniting liberal, conservative and Christian democratic forces.

The Christian quarter contains about 40 Christian holy places.

The Soviet Union proclaimed its zone of occupation in Germany the German Democratic Republic that October.

In addition, the Korean Democratic Women's Union ran workshops on women's rights in villages and communities.

This means that anyone holding to the moral doctrines of most Christian churches should nowadays be considered a second class citizen in the European Union.

The traditional marriage (the so called lobolo in Southern Mozambique) the religious marriages (Christian, Muslim, and others) the civil marriage and the union of fact.

In Austria, even liberals admit that an endless succession of social democratic and Christian democratic governments has clogged the political system s arteries, making it difficult for smaller parties to penetrate what is seen as a bastion of political privilege.

Well before the crisis, the European Union was widely perceived to be suffering from a democratic deficit.

In 1919, when Poland regained independence, the National Democratic Party was transformed into the Popular National Union.

The European Union and the United States will assist Ethiopia as it meets these new democratic challenges.

Christian Aid

The official holidays can be divided into Christian and non Christian holidays.

The political leaders of the Nationalist (Christian Democratic) Party and the Labor Party have enacted a law whereby, since 1994, they alone share more than 200,000 state financing.

Giovanni Gronchi ( 10 September 1887 17 October 1978) was a Christian Democratic Italian politician who became the third President of the Italian Republic in 1955, after Luigi Einaudi.

Letter dated 23 September 2005 from Anna Maria Stame Cervone, President, Christian Democratic Women International, addressed to the Chairman of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee)

This means that EU governments must respond to popular anxieties and make the Union more transparent and democratic.