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Austrian Green Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the Graz city-council the Greens are represented by Sigi Binder, Lisa Rücker, Hermann Candussi and Christina Jahn. The traditional strongholds in Vienna for the Greens are the districts of Neubau (2005: 43.26%), Josefstadt (32.26%), Alsergrund (29.43%), Mariahilf (28.97%) and Wieden (25.14%). The Krünalternative Jugend (GAJ) is the youth organisation of the Green party. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Austrian_Green_Party   (3742 words)

Austria - The Green Parties A major catalyst in the birth of the Green movement in Austria was the narrow defeat of the November 5, 1978, national referendum on nuclear energy. The prospects of the Green parties are limited by their frequent inability to form alliances for the purpose of contesting elections. The Green cause received a strong boost in 1984 from the confrontation between the SPÖ-FPÖ government and environmental activists opposed to the plan to build a hydroelectric plant in a wetland forest at Hainburg in eastern Austria. countrystudies.us /austria/121.htm   (671 words)

Austria The president chooses the chancellor, traditionally the leader of the largest party in the elections for parliament. However, after some turmoil within the FPÖ concerning party policy and leadership, Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel (ÖVP) announced on September 9, 2002 that general elections would be held prematurely at the end of November. About ten percent of the Austrians are of non-Austrian descent, many from surrounding countries, especially from the former East Bloc nations. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/au/Austrian.html   (818 words)

[Shasta-plus] FW: [USGP-COO] US Green Party News Circulator for 3/7/03- 3/14/03 The local chapter of the Greens party filed a motion to strip the late von Hindenberg of the honor, but it was defeated by the assembly's culture committee. Greens contended she wrongly interpreted the law and that the showing of other Green Party candidates met the minimum threshold. Green MEP Caroline Lucas, who has just got back from a fact-finding mission to Iraq, said: "The initial vote at the conference is likely to be the first of a number of motions on the possible Iraq war. lists.cagreens.org /pipermail/shasta-plus/2003-March/000386.html   (9082 words)

Global Greens - Blokov, Ivan, a Physicist, was co-founder of the official Green Party in the Soviet Union and delegate to the European Greens. Ernst, Brigitte, was one of the first green aldermen of the city of Liège at the age of 25 and then became MEP at the age of 32. Janssens, Dirk was secretary of the Coordination of Green Parties in 1983-84; co-secretary of the European Greens in 1984-1986. www.globalgreens.info /literature/books/20years/wherearetheytoday.html   (1443 words)

Iran summons Austrian ambassador over murder charges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) TEHRAN, July 5 (AFP) - 18h34 - Iran summoned the Austrian ambassador to the foreign ministry Tuesday in protest at charges its president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad was involved in the 1989 murder of an Iranian Kurdish leader in Vienna. Austrian legal authorities said earlier Tuesday that they wanted to interview an Iranian journalist living in France who claims to have evidence that Ahmadinejad was involved in the assassination of Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou. This was later confirmed by the Austrian interior ministry which said the documents had been passed on to the public prosecutor’s office. www.kurdmedia.com /news.asp?id=7201   (260 words)

REC: Beyond Boundaries: Case Examples: Hungary The Austrian and Hungarian Green Parties, other NGOs, municipality representatives and local citizens formed a group that acted as a unifing and organizing force against the incinerator. Green activists organized protection campaigns to coincide with all the regional public hearings related to the EIA procedure. The Austrian party also provided some foreign press publicity since the investment capital is essentially foreign, coming mainly from France. www.rec.org /REC/Publications/BndBound/Hungary.html   (1031 words)

Greensweek: The Green Bulletin CHESAPEAKE REGION: The national Coordinated Campaign Committee and Greens in Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania are organizing a two-day Campaign School in Baltimore, at the University of Baltimore on January 31 and February 1, 2004. The event, coordinated by the Austrian Green Party during a gathering of about 350 Green Party municipal officeholders from all over Europe, is timed to occur less than a month before Schwarzenegger introduces his budget for the state. In October, the Wisconsin Green Party passed a resolution calling for UN election monitors for the US 2004 Presidential and Congressional elections and the use of voting machines that incorporate a paper trail. www.gp.org /greensweek/2003_11_24_gwk.shtml   (1946 words)

Huge losses for Haider's Freedom Party in Austrian elections An analysis of the vote This is the biggest increase in votes by a party in post-war Austria and was the greatest election victory for the ÖVP in 36 years. Three years ago the FP became the strongest party in the Austrian capital of Vienna, with Haider referring to Vienna as a “bastion for freedom”. The conclusion to be drawn by the working class is the urgent necessity of building its own party to combat unemployment and the destruction of the welfare state on the basis of an international and socialist programme. www.wsws.org /articles/2002/nov2002/aust-n27.shtml   (1214 words)

Green Pages   ||   Green Pages, the quarterly newspaper of the Green Party of the United States, can now be purchased (in bundles of 100) for just $25 through the gp.org online store or by mail-in PDF form. But before Binder and the other three Greens (Hermann Candussi, Christina Jahn and Lisa Rückercould) could vote on the issue, Schwarzenegger struck back, writing a letter to the city, saying that he was withdrawing their right to use his name in association with the stadium. Green Pages is the newspaper of the Green Party of the United States. www.gp.org /greenpages/content/volume10/issue1/world2.php   (891 words)

The Greens-Green Alternative biography .ms (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The party was formed in 1986 with the name Grüne Alternative, from a merger of the rather conservative party Vereinte Grüne Österreichs (VGÖ, founded 1982) and the more progressive party Alternative Liste Österreichs (ALÖ, founded 1983). While the Austrian Green movement began in 1978 during the successful campaign to prevent the opening of the nuclear power plant in Zwentendorf (which had been favoured by Bruno Kreisky's government), the Green Party was born in 1984 at the successful sit-in protests that prevented the Danube power plant at Hainburg. In the early elections to national council in 2002, the Green Party nationwide received 9,47% of votes, and 17 Members of National Council. austrian-green-party.biography.ms.cob-web.org:8888   (244 words)

Iran Focus-Austrian firms against government probe into Iran president’s role in killings - Terrorism - News Baztab wrote that the action on the part of major Austrian firms came after a number of Austrian officials accused Ahmadinejad of having been involved in the 1989 assassination of Iranian Kurdish leader Abdorrahman Ghassemlou in Vienna. The report was referring to Austrian Green Party leader Peter Pilz, who said he was seeking a warrant issued for the arrest of Ahmadinejad. Baztab quoted a director of an Austrian company, “which exports 35 million dollars worth of equipment and machinery to Iran annually,” as saying that after approaching the Foreign Ministry, he was told no government official had as of yet stated any official position regarding the case. www.iranfocus.com /modules/news/article.php?storyid=2736   (577 words)

Santa Monica Mirror: Michael Feinstein to Challenge Schwarzenegger in Austria The event is being coordinated by the Austrian Green Party and is timed to occur less than a month before Schwarzenegger introduces his budget for the state. Feinstein plans to question the governor’s commitment to green building guidelines, water and energy efficiency, enforcement of existing laws, and a comprehensive plan for affordable housing. Feinstein was invited by conference sponsors a year and a half ago, to speak about Green Party strategy in the United States. www.smmirror.com /volume5/issue23/michael_feinstein_to.asp   (440 words)

The Green Party of Virginia - Fall 1999 Newsletter The parties also voted to accept the new name and, if the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics refuses to recognize the merger and transfer the two parties' respective ballot statuses to the merged party, to dissolve their respective parties. But members of the two parties are optimistic that the Board of Elections and Ethics will accept their internal decisions, and are ready to apply legal pressure with the argument that a political party has the right to decide its own destiny. Party alliances, joint slates, coalitions, and fusion might serve as useful steps, but it's the natural tendency of political parties to compete with each other for registrants and for elected office. www.vagreenparty.org /newsletters/nl24fall99.html   (8510 words)

Austria - Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights The applicant, an Austrian national and a member of parliament from the Austrian Green Party, complained that an injunction issued against him breached his right to freedom of expression. The Court took note of the agreement reached between the parties and said it was satisfied that the settlement was based on respect for human rights as defined in the Convention or its protocols. There was disagreement between the parties as to the number of the applicant's requests for the taking of evidence and the extent to which he made use of his right to put questions to the experts. www.hri.ca /fortherecord2000/euro2000/vol2/austriaechr.htm   (8840 words)

Green Party (Sweden) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Green Party (Swedish: Miljöpartiet de Gröna, literally "Environment Party the Greens", and usually simply referred to in Sweden as Miljöpartiet: the "Environment Party") is a green political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1981 emerging out of the movement opposing nuclear power in a referendum held 1980. The party does not have a formalized leadership, instead having chosen a system with two party spokespersons (always one male and one female as a promotion of gender equality). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Green_Party_(Sweden)   (358 words)

Iran New Prez Accused In Austria - CBS News Austrian Green Party leader Peter Pilz told the newspaper he wants a warrant issued for the arrest of Ahmadinejad, who he alleged "stands under strong suspicion of having been involved." Pilz accused the hard-liner of planning the murders of Kurdish resistance leader Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou and two of his colleagues, all of whom were shot in the head at a Vienna apartment by Iranian commandos on July 13, 1989. Austrian authorities have said the gunmen apparently entered the alpine country with Iranian diplomatic passports. www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/07/02/world/printable705972.shtml   (482 words)

Green Party (Czech Republic) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Green Party (Strana zelených in Czech) is a political party in the Czech Republic. The party was founded in February 1990 but for a long time it struggled to obtain significant influence in Czech politics. The party holds a single seat (Jaromír Štětina) in the Senate (upper house of the Parliament of the Czech Republic). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Green_Party_(Czech_Republic)   (475 words)

Austrian politician joins the anti-patent movement - ZDNet UK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) A senior Austrian MEP, who is a speaker on economic policy for the ruling political party in Austria and the vice-president of the largest political group in the European Parliament, spoke out against software patents to the Austrian Minister of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday. He said Austrian politicians and the EU Council should take advantage of the opportunity created by the Polish government's withdrawal of support for the directive, and rethink their position. Maria Berger, an MEP for the Austrian Socialist Party (SPOe) -- the opposition party in Austria, said in a statement last week that she welcomed the Polish decision and that the Austrian government should follow in its footsteps. news.zdnet.co.uk /itmanagement/0,1000000308,39174908,00.htm   (731 words)

MORE Then there's the Kurier's local-angle story on Austrian tourism, specifically tourism to the Styria region of Austria where Arnold is from, and how it's expected to benefit from his political fortunes. Then there is the commentary piece contributed by Peter Pilz, who is the security spokesman for the Austrian Green Party: Grinning instead of Knowing, Posing instead of Self-Control. In any case, as an Austrian Pilz asks himself whether the sort of upward mobility and acceptance of immigrants that California has shown could ever really take hold in his own country. www.eurosavant.com /more.php?id=148_0_1_0_M   (785 words)

Iran Focus-Iran's Ahmadinejad linked to Vienna murder probe - Terrorism - News VIENNA - Austrian prosecutors have launched an investigation into whether Iran's president-elect was involved in the 1989 assassination of a Kurdish leader in Vienna, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. Austrian Green Party security spokesman Peter Pilz told a news conference there was "credible evidence" that Iranian President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was involved in the 1989 assassination of Iranian exile Kurdish opposition leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou and two other Kurdish politicians in Vienna. One of the reasons that Witness D appeared credible is that he knows details that only someone with access to Austrian investigators' classified files could know, he said. www.iranfocus.com /modules/news/article.php?storyid=2738   (554 words)

Central Europe Review - Austrian News Review The Freedom Party, however, was criticised by the Social Democratic and Green opposition, as well as by its coalition partner, the People's Party (ÖVP). The leader of the Green Party, Alexander van der Bellen, took the opportunity to repeat his party's opposition to Austria's NATO membership and his commitment to a policy of active neutrality. The Freedom Party remains shaken by revelations that some of its leaders might have had access to confidential data about political and media personalities opposed to the party. www.ce-review.org /00/37/austrianews37.html   (693 words)

Austria - Gurupedia The Austrian parliament consists of two chambers, the Bundesrat, which consists of 64 representatives of the states, based on population, and the The Austrian federal states of Carinthia and Styria are home to a significant (indigenous) Slovenian minority with around 18,000 members. There is also a distinct grammatical standard for Austrian German with a few significant differences to the German spoken in Germany. www.gurupedia.com /a/au/austria.htm   (1083 words)

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