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  Centre Party (Germany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The German Centre Party (Deutsche Zentrumspartei or merely Zentrum), often called the Catholic Centre Party, was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic.
The Centre Party, whose pragmatic principles generally left it open to supporting either a monarchical or republican form of government, proved one of the mainstays of the Weimar Republic, continuing the cooperation with SPD and DDP in the Weimar Coalition.
In 1930 the Grand Coalition fell apart and the Centre's Heinrich Brüning, from the moderate conservative wing of the party, was appointed chancellor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Centre_Party_(Germany)   (5376 words)

  
 Centre Party (Finland) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Centre Party (Finnish: Suomen Keskusta) is a centrist political party in Finland.
The party is a member of Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and subscribed to the liberal manifestos of these organisations.
Although the party has an ideological background in the 19th century fennoman movement, the party is rather the direct continuation of the Estate of the Peasantry in the pre-1906 Diet of Finland.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Centre_Party_of_Finland   (436 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Centre Party (Norway)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Centre Partys policy is not based on any of the great ideologies of the 19th and 20th century, but has a great focus on decentralization of actual power and capital.
Jens Hundseid (1883–December 13, 1965) was a Norwegian politician from the Agrarian Party.
Centre Party leader Anne Enger Lahnstein, who was the undisputed "No queen" during the referendum campaign, continued to fight after the vote against what her party called "continuous EU accommodation".
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Centre-Party-%28Norway%29   (860 words)

  
 Centre Party of Estonia
The Centre Party of Estonia (Eesti Keskerakond or Kesk) is a liberal centrist political party in Estonia.
The party was founded on 12 October 1991, on the basis of the Popular Front of Estonia after several parties had split from it.
The party claims that its goal is the formation of a strong middle class in Estonia.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/ce/centre_party_of_estonia.html   (368 words)

  
 The Catholic Encyclopedia - The Centre Party
The statutes of both parties are identical (except for unessential differences), and both reject enforced party allegiance, that is the obligation of the member to vote according to the direction of the party as a whole.
Of the 397 members of the German Reichstag, the Centre claimed 63 in 1871; 93 in 1877; 94 in 1878; 100 in 1881; 99 in 1884; 98 in 1887; 106 in 1890; 96 in 1893; 102 in 1898; 100 in 1903; 109 in 1907; 92 in 1912.
Although the Centre of Alsace-Lorraine joined the Centre in the Reichstag, various causes prevented a complete understanding being arrived at, especially because the Centre Party in the Reichstag was opposed to the particularistic and separationist ideals of a portion of the Centre of Alsace-Lorraine.
jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Catholic_Encyclopedia/16020b.htm   (3926 words)

  
 Centre Party (Sweden) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Centre Party (Centerpartiet) is a political party in Sweden.
The ideology is sometimes called agrarian, but in a European context, the Centre Party can perhaps best be characterized as social liberal focusing on agricultural, environmental, and rural questions.
The Swedish Prime Minister Torbjörn Fälldin was the leader of the Centre Party.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bondef%F6rbundet   (223 words)

  
 Catholic Centre Party Article, CatholicCentreParty Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Centre Party (Deutsche Zentrumspartei or merely Zentrum), often called theCatholic Centre Party, was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic.
Although the party supported the government upon the outbreak of World War I, many of the leaders of its left wing, particularly Matthias Erzberger, came to support a negotiated settlement, andErzberger was key in the passage of the Reichstag Peace Resolution of 1917.
The Centre Party, whose pragmatic principles generally left it open to supporting either a monarchical or republican form ofgovernment, proved one of the mainstays of the Weimar Republic participating in every Weimar government between 1919 and 1932, despite the defection of its Bavarian wing in 1919 to form the Bavarian People's Party.
www.anoca.org /government/weimar/catholic_centre_party.html   (363 words)

  
 National Centre Party (Ireland) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Centre Party was a political party in the Irish Free State founded in late 1932 the party was initially know as the National Farmers and Ratepayers League.
Its most prominent members were Frank MacDermott the leader of the party and James Dillon, who was the son of the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, John Dillon.
The National Centre Party merged with Cumann na nGaedheal and the Army Comrades Association to form Fine Gael, the current main Irish opposition party, in Sept 1933.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Centre_Party_(Ireland)   (208 words)

  
 Centre Party --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
Throughout the 1870s the Centre Party was estranged from Bismarck in the Kulturkampf, which was the struggle between the chancellor and the Roman Catholic church.
Other periods in which the party supported the government in exchange for concessions to confessional interests followed until World War I. In 1916 the Centre Party was instrumental in underscoring the German chancellor's subservience to the military, but in 1917 the party urged peace negotiations with the Allies.
Although the Centre Party remained relatively moderate in its stance during the polarization of German politics in the early 1930s, the party's deputies voted in favour of the Enabling Act of March 1933, which allowed Chancellor Adolf Hitler to assume dictatorial powers in Germany.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9022099   (1152 words)

  
 About the Centre Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The party organization consists of a central part with headquarters in Oslo, 19 county organizations and local organizations in most of the Norwegian municipalities.
It originated as a party for the rural population, representing the farmers' interests and defending the rural culture and values against the pressure from the urban elites.
The party was central in the campaigns against Norwegian membership in the European Union before the national referendums about this question in 1972 and in 1994.
www.senterpartiet.no /uploads/english.shtml   (240 words)

  
 Scandinavian Centre Parties
In the period after the second world war, those parties were supported by 40 to 50 percent of the electorate, but nowadays their support has fallen to between 30 and 40 percent.
Green was a natural choice of colour for the party flags and the four-leaf clover symbol, since it was the colour of the agrarian parties in central and eastern Europe.
As the parties were building an identity far broader than their names would indicate, they were renamed at the end of the 1950s.
www.thirdway.org /files/world/scancen.html   (615 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Centre Party (Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic IPA (German Weimarer Republik).
Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator.
Although the party generally was supportive of neither the right-wing authoritarian rule of Papen or of Kurt von Schleicher, who succeeded him in December, nor of Adolf Hitler's National Socialists, they were far from the bulwark of democracy and the republic that they had been in the early years of the republic.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Centre-Party-(Germany)   (1014 words)

  
 Centre Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Centre Party or Center Party is the designation of several parties:
Centre Party – a party in the Faroe Islands
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Centre_Party   (101 words)

  
 CENTRE PARTY
The Centre Party (Zentrum) was a Catholic political party in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic.
The Centre Party was a political party in the Irish Free State in the early 1930s.
The Centre Party merged with Cumann na nGaedheal and the Army Comrades Association to form Fine Gael, the main Irish opposition party, in 1933.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/CENTRE+PARTY   (551 words)

  
 Centre Party --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
It was the first party of imperial Germany to cut across class and state lines, but because it represented the Roman Catholics, who were concentrated in southern and western Germany, it was unable to win a parliamentary majority.
Traditionally a centrist party without rigid ideology or structure, it was most prominent during the Third Republic (to 1940) and the Fourth Republic (1945–58) but continued to be influential during the Fifth Republic (from 1958).
The party was held together by opposition to Communism, though it contained members with left-of-center opinions and southern landowners...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9022099?tocId=9022099   (888 words)

  
 Johan's Homepage - Maud Olofsson's Centre Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
There is still some co-operation with the socialists though - mostly in energy politics, where her party opposes nuclear energy (not as fiercly as before, perhaps) but leaves everybody in the dark regarding what exactly should replace it.
The main point, that she wanted to make, was that the Centre party now, as a liberal party, has a positive view on market solutions.
Market solutions, Centre party style, means that the market (which she consistently spoke of as a homogenous entity) would provide solutions to problems defined by the polititians.
johaneriksson.se /articles/041111.html   (515 words)

  
 Centerpartiet - The Centre Party organization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Centre movement is one of Swedens largest political popular movements with approximately 80,000 members and it is composed of the Centre Party, Centre Women, the Centre Party Youth Organization (CUF) and the Centre Party University Association (CHF).
Centre Women Works towards women and men having equal opportunities and rights when it comes to work, family, health care and in all other areas where there today is injustice and an inequality between the sexes.
Centre Women devote themselves to international questions and collaborate with many parties and organizations in Europe and Africa in aid and democracy projects.
www.centerpartiet.se /templates/Page.aspx?id=7044   (227 words)

  
 Senterpartiet - Sp in English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Centre Party is ambitious on behalf of the country.
The Centre Party is very clear and outspoken it is refusal to join the EU and is also not in favour of the EEA.
The Centre Party is of the opinion that people should be able to participate in decisions concerning themselves, that the people should be able to give their opinion through elections and that what is being done is being done openly.
www.senterpartiet.no /dokumentene/7830   (3141 words)

  
 Guardian | Centre party move breaks Ulster peace deadlock
Alliance party sources said they were planning to change the affiliation of their five Assembly members to help Trimble and his nominated deputy - Mark Durkan of the SDLP - return to the power-sharing government.
Ford said his party had focused on how the Government intended to hold a review of the voting system in the Northern Ireland Assembly that he had wanted changed.
The party's deputy leader, Eileen Bell, confirmed the decision to designate its members as unionists would only be a short-term remedy, and in the long term there needed to be a 'fundamental review' of the assembly's cross-party majority voting rules.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4291673-103588,00.html   (528 words)

  
 Riksdagen - The Centre Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Centre Party traces its origins back to the Agrarian Union, founded in 1913, and a national organization for farmers, founded in 1915.
When the non-socialist parties won the elections in 1976 and 1979 the chairman of the Centre Party, Thorbjörn Fälldin, became Prime Minister.
The Centre Party also formed part of the non-socialist four-party Government in 1991–1994.
www.riksdagen.se /templates/R_Page____1052.aspx   (136 words)

  
 Centre Party (Germany) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Centre Party (Germany) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In 1858, when the "New Era" governments of William I adopted more lenient policies, the club renamed itself "Fraction of the Centre" in order to open itself up to include non-Catholics.
In 1988 the right wing of the party split off formed the new party "Christian Middle".
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Catholic_Centre_Party   (5372 words)

  
 Estonian Green Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Jüri Martin, the Green Party's leader, said the consolidation of political parties was inevitable because of Estonia's small size, and the large numbers of parties had been causing some confusion in the political scene.
Edgar Savisaar, chairman of the Centre Party, said unification gave the Centre Party a stronger green characteristic.
The united party will be called the Centre Party, and unification with the Green Party will be by individual applications.
utopia.knoware.nl /users/oterhaar/greens/europe/estonia.htm   (251 words)

  
 Read about Centre Party (Finland) at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Centre Party (Finland) and learn about Centre ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Centre Party (Finnish: Suomen Keskusta) is a centrist
It is one of the three largest political parties in the country, along with the
Although the party has an ideological background in the 19th century fennoman movement, the party is rather the direct continuation of the
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Centre_Party_of_Finland   (374 words)

  
 Swedish Centre Party - 1999 EUP Election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In the EUP-elections of 1995 the party presented two lists; one was headed by a former minister of agriculture Karl-Erik Olsson, while its alternative had the former "No to EU" general Hans Lindqvist as number one.
The Party Representative Council, however, decided to switch the order -- making Thurdin their number one as a 'middle of the road' candidate, followed by Olsson at second and Lindqvist at third place.
The Centre Party lost one seat, and the one that they did keep was won by Olsson.
www.thirdway.org /files/world/swedeuv.html   (424 words)

  
 Estonia Centre Party OKs Reform for govt talks.htm in Business Recorder on January 14, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
TALLINN: Estonia's left-wing Centre Party said on Sunday it would enter talks with the pro-business Reform Party to try to form a government to push forward the country's efforts to gain European Union and NATO membership.
The former ruling Reform Party is on the other side of the political spectrum to the social democrat Centre Party, but both support EU and NATO membership for Estonia.
The Reform Party was blamed for the collapse of the centre-right coalition government of Prime Minister Mart Laar, who resigned on Tuesday.
www.paksearch.com /br2002/Jan/14/Estonia%20Centre%20Party%20OKs%20Reform%20for%20govt%20talks.htm   (363 words)

  
 The Local - Centre Party anticipates billion kronor windfall
Sweden's Centre Party is on its way to becoming one of the richest political parties in the world.
The party, which is part of the opposition conservative alliance, is the second smallest in Sweden's parliament, with only 22 out of 349 MPs.
The company, Centertidningar [Centre Newspapers], is the parent company of a number of profitable local newspaper groups and, according to Resumé's sources, is worth up to 1 billion kronor.
www.thelocal.se /article.php?ID=1973&date=20050829   (1047 words)

  
 The Youth Assembly of the Estonian Centre Party International Relations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Youth Assembly of the Estonian Centre Party
NCY is a co-operative body for youth- and student organizations within the Centre Party Movement in Nordic countries.
The aim of NCY is to form a decentralized policy from an international perspective and accordingly work for a world community with equality for all people, security and a high quality of life, which demand a primary consideration for ecological balance, the prerequisite of the continued long-term existence of each culture.
www.geenipank.ee /eng/relations.htm   (279 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Milburn toughs it out - and wins role at centre of party
But the arrival of the first former general secretary of a trade union around the cabinet table since the legendary Frank Cousins - 40 years ago - was relegated to a sideshow as Mr Milburn's friends urged him to dig his heels in and "get the fight with the Brownites over" before it could start.
In his party hat he will become general election coordinator, a role now held by the chancellor's ally, Douglas Alexander; a government member of Labour's NEC developing election planning; and a member of the election strategy group chaired by Mr Blair.
Mr Milburn had accepted on Tuesday that Mr McCartney would remain party chairman, the job he was earmarked for in July.
www.guardian.co.uk /Politics/labour/story/0,9061,1300343,00.html   (798 words)

  
 German Centre Party (Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Zentrum (Deutsche Zentrumspartei, German Centre Party, 1945-today) is a Catholic party tracing back its history to the Weimar Republic and before.
During the Weimar Republic it was one of the major democratic parties, but after the Second World War the newly founded CDU and CSU absorbed almost all the support by Catholic, conservative people.
Now it is basically a regional party in Catholic areas of North Rhine-Westphalia.
fotw.vexillum.com /flags/de}zentr.html   (161 words)

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