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  Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Arbechterpartei, French: Parti Ouvrier Socialiste Luxembourgeois, German: Luxemburger Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei), abbreviated to LSAP or POSL,
The LSAP is currently the second-largest party in the Chamber of Deputies, having won 14 of 60 seats at the 2004 election.
The party's President is Alex Bodry, a member of the Chamber of Deputies and the Mayor of Dudelange.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luxembourg_Socialist_Workers'_Party   (196 words)

  
 Luxembourg (country) - Search View - MSN Encarta
Luxembourg is part of the geological region in which the Lorraine plateau of northern France meets the hills of southwest Belgium and the Mosel (Moselle) Valley and Rhineland of western Germany.
Northern Luxembourg is crossed by the foothills of the Ardennes to the west.
Luxembourg was among the first group of EU member states to adopt the euro, which entered use for accounting purposes and financial transfers beginning in 1999.
encarta.msn.com /text_761562359__1/Luxembourg_(country).html   (3507 words)

  
 Socialist Workers Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Denmark - Socialist Workers Party, Danish section of the reunified Fourth International.
United Kingdom - Socialist Workers Party, which is the dominant section of the IST.
United States - Socialist Workers Party, which is the dominant section of the Pathfinder tendency, a breakaway from the reunified Fourth International.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party   (169 words)

  
 A short history of Luxembourg
Luxembourg is renamed Duchy of Luxembourg in 1354.
Luxembourg remains as part of the southern Netherlands under Spanish rule as the Spanish Netherlands.
Luxembourg is a co-founder of the European Communities in 1957 (renamed European Union in 1993).
www.electionworld.org /history/luxembourg.htm   (686 words)

  
 Polity IV Country Report 2001: Luxembourg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The majority party (or majority coalition) in the Chamber of Deputies selects the chief executive.
The parliamentary structure of governance found in Luxembourg places significant constraints on the autonomy of the chief executive.
Luxembourg has a competitive multiparty democracy that is been dominated in recent years by two parties, the Christian Social Party and the Democratic Party, in alliance with each other or with the Socialist Workers' Party.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Lux1.htm   (245 words)

  
 social-democracy - Anarchopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Social democratic parties are among the largest parties in most countries in Europe, as well as in the majority of European-influenced parts of the world (with the notable exception of the United States).
The reformist socialists supported their respective national governments in the war, a fact that was seen by the revolutionary socialists as outright treason against the working class (since it betrayed the principle that the workers of all nations should unite in overthrowing capitalism).
There have been many socialist and social democratic parties in American history, most notably the Socialist Party of America whose best known leaders were Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas and the Socialist Labor Party of America led by Daniel DeLeon, but they have been less successful than their European counterparts.
eng.anarchopedia.org /index.php/social-democracy   (2719 words)

  
 Luxembourg (09/06)
Although Luxembourg considers 1835 (Treaty of London) to be its year of independence, it was not granted political autonomy until 1839 under King William I of the Netherlands, who also was the Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
The prime minister is the leader of the political party or coalition of parties having the most seats in parliament, known as the Chamber of Deputies.
Luxembourg is a member of the Benelux Economic Union and was one of the founding members of the European Economic Community (now the European Union).
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3182.htm   (2986 words)

  
 Luxembourg Financial Overview
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a small landlocked state in the north-west of continental Europe, bordered by France, Germany and Belgium.
Luxembourg has built up a substantial business in private banking, and is now the second largest provider of funds management services in the world, after the United States, and the largest provider to non-resident investors.
Luxembourg generally provides for three types of 1929 holding companies: ordinary; billionaire holdings, requiring minimum capitalization of EUR 24 million and provide for further tax exemptions; and financial holdings which provide for greater flexibility for intra-group financing.
www.sovereignsociety.com /offshore1661.html   (1036 words)

  
 EUguides - Luxembourg - EUbusiness - EU law, politics and finance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Luxembourg is one of the founding countries of the European Union.
Luxembourg's external interests are centred on the EU, where the Government tends to favour integrationist proposals.
Luxembourg held the Presidency of the EU prior to the UK, from January to June 2005.
www.eubusiness.com /guides/luxembourg/view   (531 words)

  
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On 13 June 2004 voters in Luxembourg elected the 60 deputies of the Chamber of Deputies and the country's six representatives to the European Parliament.
Lydie Polfer; the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (POSL/LSAP), the main social-democrat opposition party; the Action Committee for Democracy and Justice (ADR), established in 1987 as an action committee defending pension rights and advocating an end to pension scheme disparities between the private and public sectors; and the environmentalist Green Party (G).
The Socialist Workers' Party became the second largest political force, receiving 24.37 per cent of the votes and 14 seats.
www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/2191_E.htm   (471 words)

  
 Adam Carr's Electoral Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Duchy of Luxembourg was created within the Holy Roman Empire in 1354, and passed along with the rest of the Netherlands to the Hapsburgs in 1482.
After the French revolution Luxembourg was again conquered by France, but under the settlement of 1815 it became a Grand Duchy, with the King of the Netherlands as Grand Duke.
The other major parties are the social-democratic Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP) and the liberal Democratic Party (DP), which is usually in coalition with the CSVP.
psephos.adam-carr.net /countries/l/luxembourg/statsluxembourg.shtml   (478 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Socialist International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Split by the outbreak of World War I, it was re-formed in 1923 (as the Labour and Socialist International), and reconstituted again (in its present form) after World War II (during which many socialist parties had been suppressed in Nazi-occupied Europe).
In the 1980s, most SI parties gave their backing to the Nicaraguan Sandinistas (FSLN), whose leftwing government had incited enmity from the United States.
The Party of European Socialists, a party active in the European Parliament, is an associated organization of the Socialist International.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Socialist_International   (565 words)

  
 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Luxembourg held the Presidency of the EU from July to December 1997, the Presidency of the WEU from July to December 1999 and the Presidency of the Council of Europe from May to November 2002.
The 1867 Treaty of London proclaimed the neutrality of Luxembourg and stipulated the evacuation of the fortress of Luxembourg by Prussian troops.
Luxembourg is the site of several European institutions including the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Auditors, the European Investment Bank and parts of the European Commission.
www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1019061812621   (676 words)

  
 HISTORICAL EVENTS - 1945—1949 The pioneering phase - Europe in ruins in the aftermath of the Second World War - The ...
The Socialists actually had great difficulty, in the face of continuous attacks by the Communists, in defending the austerity policy required by post-war economic constraints.
In Germany, in the Soviet zone of occupation, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) merged with the Communist Party (KPD) on 22 April 1946 to form the Socialist Unity Party (SED), whereas the SPD in the Western zones of occupation had refused any merger with the KPD.
In most of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe under Soviet influence, the Socialist Parties were forced to abandon their independence and become a ‘united workers’ party’ under Communist Party control.
www.ena.lu /europe/pioneering/socialists.htm   (487 words)

  
 Luxembourg Presidency - Mady Delvaux-Stehres
Having joined the LSAP (Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party) in 1974, Mady Delvaux-Stehres was initially active in the Socialist Women group.
As Minister of Transport, between 1994 and 1999, she was to reorganise the railways in accordance with European directives and as Minister for Communications, she implemented the liberalisation of telephone services.
In June 1999, Mady Delvaux-Stehres was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies and four months later, she obtained a new term of office in the municipal council of Luxembourg City.
www.eu2005.lu /en/presidence/membres/delvaux_stehres   (353 words)

  
 Prime Minister
Jean-Claude Juncker was born in Redange-sur-Attert in the west of Luxembourg on 9 December 1954 and spent his childhood and youth in Belvaux, in the south of the country, where his father was employed by one of the large steelworks.
His oratory skills and analytical mind in particular attracted the attention of the party’s leaders and in October 1979 he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary of the party.
During the first six months of 2005, the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union allowed Jean-Claude Juncker to secure an agreement at the March 2005 European Council on a reform of the Stability and Growth Pact that did not affect the pact’s fundamental principles.
www.gouvernement.lu /gouvernement/premier_ministre/cv_eng   (1291 words)

  
 Luxembourg Presidency - Luxembourg in figures
Luxembourg (77,300 inhabitants), Esch-sur-Alzette (27,900 inhabitants), Differdange (18,900 inhabitants)
The Law of 27 July 1993 authorises the Grand Duke to formulate the precise colour combination of the national flag.
To distinguish the Luxembourg flag (three horizontal red, white and blue stripes) from the Dutch flag, a practical solution has been adopted: the blue on the Dutch flag is ultramarine while that on the Luxembourg flag is sky blue (Pantone colour standard No. 299C).
www.eu2005.lu /en/savoir_lux/lux_chiffres/index.html   (352 words)

  
 Once Upon a Time in the West   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
On July 15, 2006 the two parties dispatched delegates to Minsk, the Belarusian capital, to a congress, the main purpose of which was to unite the two organizations within the restored/continuing Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Unlike the French Socialist Party and the German Social Democratic Party, the Labour Party did not split and, hence, the CPGB remained politically irrelevant.
The NPD is a far-right party that harbored West Germany’s neo-Nazis in a fashion similar to that of NDPD in East Germany.
www.russiastory.com   (12187 words)

  
 LUXEMBOURG: parliamentary elections Chambre des Députés, 1994   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
During the campaign, emphasis was placed on the issues of the social welfare and the status of foreigners in the country, who constitute a sizeable percentage of the work force.
Despite the particular efforts of the liberal Democratic Party (PD/DP) and the Greens, polling results saw little change in the relative strengths of the parties represented in the Chamber of Deputies, none of them gaining or losing more than one seat.
With this outcome, the Christian Social Party (PCS/CSV) and the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (POSL/LSAP), in alliance since 1984 and together having a comfortable majority in the Chamber, agreed on 17 June to renew their governing coalition, which is headed by Prime Minister Jacques Santer (PCS/CSV).
www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2191_94.htm   (188 words)

  
 International Accounting Regional Analysis: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Belgium is located in the north west of Europe, at the edge of the North Sea, and is one of the most densely populated and prosperous countries in the world.
The number of foreign residents in Luxembourg has already exceeded 32% of the population and is slightly higher than 50% in the capital.
Luxembourg as an international center at this printing numbers more than 7000 domiciled Holding Companies, some 900 investment funds, and 222 banks which represent the greatest banking concentration in the European Community.
www.albany.edu /acc/courses/acc611/northeurope   (14643 words)

  
 General notes - Luxembourg - (Legal500.com)
Luxembourg is the smallest independent state in the EU.
The spoken language of the majority of the population is Luxembourgish, a dialect of German.
Since Luxembourg's presidency of the Council of Europe ended in mid-2005, the government's popularity has been waning, amid concerns that changes to the tax regime might adversely affect the banking sector.
www.icclaw.com /lfe/edit/lu1.htm   (184 words)

  
 CNN.com - World - Election Watch
Parliament: Luxembourg's unicameral parliament, the Chambre de DÈputÈs, consists of 60 members.
Members of the Chambre de DÈputÈs are directly elected by a party list proportional representation system from four multi-member constituencies for five-year terms.
Along with the parliamentary election, Luxembourgers cast their ballots in the European Parliament poll on June 13, 1999.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/election.watch/europe/luxembourg.html   (62 words)

  
 Luxembourg
1815 Congress of Vienna made Luxembourg a grand duchy, under King William of the Netherlands.
The blue band is lighter than that of the Dutch tricolour.
Locator map for the European country of Luxembourg.
www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/countryfacts/luxembourg.html   (624 words)

  
 Luxembourg
Dutch Secretary for the Affairs of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (in The Hague)
Secretaries for the Affairs of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (in The Hague)
different points of view on the status of post-war Luxembourg opposed each other (partisans of the reigning Grand Duchess of the House of Nassau -but not the current Grand Duchess, of the republic, of annexation to Belgium or France).
www.worldstatesmen.org /Luxembourg.htm   (2256 words)

  
 Luxembourg Travel Products and French, German, Luxembourgian Languages
The economy depends on foreign and trans-border workers for 30% of its labor force.
Although Luxembourg, like all EU members, has suffered from the global economic slump, the country has maintained a fairly robust growth rate.
On 1 January 2002, Luxembourg - together with 11 of its EU partners - began to replace its circulating national currency with the euro.
www.worldlanguage.com /Countries/Luxembourg.htm   (1050 words)

  
 dictionary - Political parties and leaders - Social-Democratic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 Luxembourg Politics News - EU Politics Today   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean Claude Juncker said: "Russia is a strategic partner...
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing Luxembourg's Prime Minister, Mr Jean-Claude Juncker, is to present the Westphalia peace...
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - The European Union argued on...
eupolitics.einnews.com /news/luxembourg-politics   (749 words)

  
 IFES Election Guide - Election Profile for Luxembourg
Assembly: Luxembourg has a unicameral Chamber of Deputies (Chambre des Députés) with 60 seats.
In the Chamber of Deputies (Chambre des Députés), 60 members are elected by direct popular vote to serve 5-year terms.
Parliamentary elections were last held in Luxembourg on June 13, 1999.
www.electionguide.org /election.php?ID=234   (87 words)

  
 Member parties of the Socialist International
Map of the World showing all the Member Parties
Party for Democracy and Socialism of Niger, PNDS
International Federation of the Socialist and Democratic Press, IFSDP
www.socialistinternational.org /2Members/who.html   (144 words)

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