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  AllRefer.com - Germany - Political Parties - Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union | German Information ...
CDU membership fell by 5 percent in 1992 to 714,000, while that of the FDP fell by about one-fifth to 110,000.
CDU members advocated conservative values and the benefits of a social market economy--that is, one combining capitalist practices and an extensive welfare system.
The CDU is a national party except in the Land of Bavaria, where it is not active, in deference to its sister party, the Christian Social Union (Christlich-Soziale Union--CSU).
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 A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union --A--
As founder and chairman of the Christian Democratic Union, he helped to negotiate the constitution of the new Federal Republic of Germany and in 1949 he became the first federal chancellor, a position he held for 14 years.
His Christian capitalist creed made him an uncompromising opponent of communism and convinced him that the purpose of German strategy must be to anchor the country in the West and find rehabilitation through suppressing German nationalism within a unified Europe.
Andreotti was prominent in the Italian Christian Democratic party for four decades, at the end of which time public disenchantment with corruption in high places had grown to such a point that the old political establishment was destroyed and many politicians were indicted.
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 Christian Democratic - The Society and Culture Beat - SearchBeat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Movement for Christian Democracy - A political organization working in the UK with the position that Christianity gives a vision for the whole of politics.
Wilberforce Quarterly: European Christian Democracy - Article from the September 1991 issue wherein the author compares continental Christian democracy to British conservatism and looks with favor on the latter movement.
English Historical Review: The Path to Christian Democracy - A summary of the Nicholls book about Catholics and the party system within Germany, focusing on the activity of the Centre Party and the founding of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
www.searchbeat.com /Society/Politics/ChristianDemocratic   (208 words)

  
 Christian Democratic Union - dKosopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Christian Democratic Union (Christlich Demokratische Union, or CDU) was founded in 1945 by Konrad Adenauer.
Ludwig Erhard's proposed social market economy became the basis of CDU policy, together with a strong orientation towards Europe and NATO.
In the 2002 federal elections, the CDU won 190 seats in the Bundestag.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Christian_Democratic_Union   (95 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Political parties and leaders
Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire-African Democratic Rally or PDCI-RDA [Aime Henri Konan BEDIE]; Ivorian Popular Front or FPI [Laurent GBAGBO]; Ivorian Worker's Party or PIT [Francis WODIE]; Rally of the Republicans or RDR [Alassane OUATTARA]; Union for Democracy and Peace or UDPCI [Gen. Robert GUEI]; over 20 smaller parties
Christian Democratic Party or PDC [Dr. Hernan CORRALES Padilla]; Democratic Unification Party or PUD [leader NA]; Liberal Party or PL [Roberto MICHELETTI Bain]; National Innovation and Unity Party-Social Democratic Party or PINU-SD [Olban F. VALLADARES]; National Party of Honduras or PN [Raphael CALLEJAS]
Democratic People's Party or DPP [CHO Sun, chairman]; Grand National Party or GNP [YI Hoe-chang, president]; Millennium Democratic Party or MDP [leader NA]; United Liberal Democrats or ULD [KIM Chong-p'il, honorary chairman, KIM Chong-ho, acting president]
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 2001 FSJ Front Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Most Americans were only too happy to put Afghanistan out of their minds once the Soviet Union withdrew the last of its troops 12 years ago.
But as Arnie Schifferdecker recounts in "The Taliban-Bin Laden-ISI Connection," the connections between certain elements in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden that began to form during that war would eventually help pave the way for the Sept. 11 attacks.
Former FSO Laurence Pope gives a personal account of the travails of Senate confirmation in "Advice and Contempt." Pope, who was nominated to be ambassador to Kuwait, was never given a hearing by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and resigned from the Foreign Service in 2000.
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 Governments on the WWW: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Stranka Demokratske Akcije (SDA) [Party of Democratic Action]
Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine (HDZ BiH) [Croatian Democratic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina]
Socijaldemokratska Partija Bosne i Hercegovine (SDP BiH) [Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina]
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