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  Agreement of Social Security Between Canada and Italy
Subject to this Agreement, a person to whom the legislation of either Party applies by virtue of this Agreement shall have extended to him the rights and obligations of that legislation under the same conditions as if he were subject to that legislation without recourse to this Agreement.
Article VI Where a person employed in Government employment in respect of Italy is sent in the course of his employment to the territory of Canada, the legislation of Canada shall not apply to him.
In such cases, the authority or institution of the latter Party shall, as soon as possible, arrange for the claim, notice or appeal to be sent to the authority or institution of the former Party.
www.hrsdc.gc.ca /en/isp/ibfa/countries/agreements/italy-a.shtml   (2350 words)

  
  CEDAW/C/ITA/2 - CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 18 OF THE CONVENTION ON THE ...
At a time of institutional crisis, which is attributable in part to the way in which political parties have managed power and the role that they have played in society, the fact that women are under-represented in the centres of power has prevented them from using their resources to lessen the impact of political upheaval.
Italy is currently preparing for this important meeting with the help, among other things, of this report, which is offered, not only as an opportunity for reflection and debate but also as a working tool, to all those in Italy who are committed to women's issues.
Women representatives of political parties have asked that these principles be affirmed both in the general part of the statutes and in specific provisions; they are also requesting that particular attention be paid to certain provisions of Act No. 142/90, from which certain obligations imposed by the statutes derive.
www.un.org /esa/documents/ga/cedaw/17/country/Italy/cedawc-ita2-part1en.htm   (8718 words)

  
 A lonely Italian retiree puts himself up for adoption | csmonitor.com
As in France, thousands of Italy's pensioners died during the heat wave of 2003 while many of their relatives were away on vacation.
This summer, Italy's health minister suggested the elderly should be brought to supermarkets and cinemas to cool down and escape their isolation during the hottest months.
Italy's old folks are the fastest growing sector of its population.
www.csmonitor.com /2004/0923/p01s04-woeu.htm   (1010 words)

  
 Italian Government Falls in Fight Over Euro Austerity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Italy must now begin a new search for a governing majority at a critical moment in its efforts to convince its European partners that it can sustain the fiscal austerity required for the common currency.
In Italy itself, there were signs of popular discontent against the Communist hard-liners' downing of a government that many Italian leftists regarded as their own.
For Fausto Bertinotti, the stubborn leader of the Communist Refounding, the biggest blow in the weeklong battle was the defection of Italy's major trade unions, including one long associated with the Communist Party, which broke ranks to support the government's budget.
www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/italeuro.htm   (928 words)

  
 Structure and development of political parties — Virtual Finland
The Party and its papers were proscribed in 1923, although it continued to have candidates in parliamentary elections under different electoral alliances throughout the 1920s.
The first party political platform was approved in 1972, and has since been supplemented by the extension of the Party's Christian ideology to various sectors of social policy.
The four parties (Social Democrats, the Agrarian Party/Centre Party, the Democratic Union of the Finnish People/the Left Alliance, the Coalition Party) that became the dominant political grouping in those elections, were still the largest parties in the most recent polling, though in a slightly different order.
virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/puoleng.html   (4005 words)

  
 Slovenia (03/07)
The Alps--including the Julian Alps, the Kamnik-Savinja Alps, the Karavanke chain, and the Pohorje Massif--dominate northern Slovenia near Austria.
Janez Jansa was sworn in as Prime Minister on November 9, 2004 and the National Assembly confirmed the new cabinet on December 3.
Nearly two-thirds of Slovenia’s overall trade is with the EU and the vast majority of this is with Germany, Italy, Austria, and France.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3407.htm   (6301 words)

  
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Former president and secretary general of the transnational Radical party.
Co-founder and former general secretary of the Radical party.
Several parties still need to fill the seats that they have won with individual candidates.
www.europarl.eu.int /election/newep/en/bitsit.htm   (511 words)

  
 Admiral Quixote's Roundtable: US,UN,Intervention: Political Parties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Parties allow the whole election thing to keep functioning in the face of crushing voter apathy, and during times of actual interest in the political process, parties provide something to polarize around (i.e.
The Reform Party was the party for people who were unified in their dislike of both mainstream parties.
If a third party does come along with a hot new idea what traditionally happens is one of the two other parties looks that idea over and if it seems likely to get votes from some reasonable fraction of the electorate they absorb that policy into their own policy.
www.solport.com /roundtable/archives/000574.php   (3751 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Left-wing politics
For example, the Democratic Leadership Council (in which Bill Clinton was active) is generally considered to form the right wing of the U.S. Democratic Party (which outside the US is considered to be right of center), but in terms of the whole country he was generally perceived as being on the moderate left.
In Hong Kong, the term "left-wing" is usually used to describe the political parties that mostly support the policies of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Central Government in Beijing.
Until 1991, the main left-wing political party in Italy was the Italian Communist Party (PCI), which opposed the Christian Democracy (DC).
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Left-wing   (2916 words)

  
 Italy: the beginning of the end for Berlusconi
He also raised the prospect of pulling Italian troops out of Iraq, as in Italy a huge majority of the population – 70% according to recent polls – is against the war in Iraq.
Compared to last year’s European elections the party lost 1%, getting the same number of votes as in the previous 2000 regional elections, which (together with the 1999 European elections) was the lowest vote the party had ever achieved.
Italy: The Marxists at the 6th congress of the PRC By Claudio Bellotti, Member of the National Executive of the PRC (December 1, 2004)
www.marxist.com /Europe/italy_berlusconi_defeat08005.htm   (1362 words)

  
 World: Pension: Global Action on Aging   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Special Pensions Amendment Bill builds upon the original legislation passed in 1996 that provided lump sum benefits to individuals and their dependents who were previously prohibited from participating in a traditional pension scheme due to working full time in a banned political organization.
Pension reform is at the heart of this year’s political campaigns in Taiwan.
Pensioners are upset because they believe it is unfair that the law makes no distinction between the taxpayer-funded schemes and contributory pension schemes.
globalag.igc.org /pension/world   (13508 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - Slovene News Review
Together with the two seats held by national minorities, the parties would hold 44 of the 90 seats in Parliament, which could be enough to form a government without the participation of the other parties.
In Italy, the Law on the Global Protection of the Slovene Minority remains stuck in the Senate in Rome.
Among the duties of Italy as part of the agreement, however, was the legal protection of the Slovene minority.
www.ce-review.org /00/39/slovenianews39.html   (1428 words)

  
 Warsaw Voice - The Polish Gray Panthers?
The party's program constantly emphasizes the idea that the pensioners do not merely want to sort out their own problems after winning seats in parliament, but that they have "a plan for Poland." "Older people have great experience and common sense," said Patyk.
After that, nothing more was heard of the pensioners' party until this year, when its leaders announced that they intended to take part independently in parliamentary elections planned for September.
Kaczyński's accusations are not borne out by the CBOS polling center's April survey on second-choice parties, which shows that the KPEiR would, as a second-choice party, attract 12 percent of Solidarity Election Action (AWS) voters and 8 percent of the SLD electorate.
www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/468   (908 words)

  
 CDI Russia Weekly 2 October 1998
Mr Luzhkov is in Britain as the guest of the British Labour party to attend it's annual conference.
Not one politician has addressed the welfare of pensioners," Atroshenko said, and this has led to the formation of the All-Russian Party of Pensioners (RPP), which was founded at the end of 1997 and registered by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on May 29, 1998.
According to the party’s Working Theses for the Delegation of the Russian Party of Pensioners, the main goal of the RPP is "to convert the Russian pensioners from a potential political force into an actual one." The potential of the pensioner population within Russia is enormous.
www.cdi.org /russia/oct0298.html   (7104 words)

  
 Governments on the WWW: Political Parties
Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (SPÖ) [Socialdemocratic Party of Austria]
Srpska Stranka Republike Srpske [Serbian Party of the Serbian Republic]
Hrvatska Seljacka Stranka Bosne i Hercegovine (HSS BiH) [Croatian Peasants Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina]
www.gksoft.com /govt/en/parties.html   (2433 words)

  
   PRODI HAPPY WITH MOODY'S REPORT (supersedes previous)
whose party is the third biggest in the governing coalition,
It said Italy's public debt would drop to 105.4% of GDP
The Istat data appeared to confirm that Italy was
www.lifeinitaly.com /news/news-detailed.asp?newsid=5186   (611 words)

  
 [ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
He said that the charter that was registered does not reflect harsh criticisms by the party's regional branches regarding provisions that state the party's central leadership must approve candidates for regional legislature and executive-branch elections.
He said the party congress in November accepted the charter without this provision, but it was nonetheless included in the version that the party registered with the Justice Ministry in December.
An unnamed party source told the website that Luzhkov was mistaken and the registered version of the charter is the one that was approved by the congress.
www.rferl.org /newsline/2005/03/1-RUS/rus-020305.asp?po=y   (1526 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - Slovene News Review
As the election campaign is getting underway, parliamentary parties are not only looking to advertise their politics to attract voters, but are also reaching out to non-parliamentary parties to increase their chances in the upcoming elections scheduled for 15 October.
The six parties currently in parliament are the SLS+SKD Slovene People's Party, the Liberal Democrats (LDS), the Social Democrats (SDS), the United List of Social Democrats (ZLSD), the Pensioners' Party (DEMOS) and the Slovene Nationalist Party (SNS), along with Bajuk's newly registered New Slovenia (NSi).
The Minister, a member of the far-right Freedom Party, was quoted as saying that Slovenia and the Czech Republic should not be allowed to enter the European Union (EU) unless they rescind anti-German discriminatory decrees made at the end of World War II.
www.ce-review.org /00/29/slovenianews29.html   (1028 words)

  
 [ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
The Communist Party, the Communist Workers Party, Yabloko, the Pensioners Party, and several public organizations and trade unions organized authorized rallies across Russia on 12 February to protest the monetization of in-kind social benefits such as free public transportation and medicine, lenta.ru and gazeta.ru reported.
The leaderships of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the Democratic Party (PD) chose on 10 February PD member and Deputy Prime Minister Adriean Videanu as their joint candidate to run in the upcoming Bucharest mayoral election, "Evenimentul zilei" daily reported.
And Al-Arabiyah television reported on 14 February that insurgents have kidnapped the leader of an unidentified Christian party in Iraq and are demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, Reuters reported on 14 December.
www.rferl.org /newsline/2005/02/140205.asp?po=y   (8267 words)

  
 TIMEeurope.com: Europe -- Prime Minister Becomes President   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He argued that she was not detached from party politics, recalling her stint as justice minister under the interim government run by Andrej Bajuk of the now opposition New Slovenia.
Brezigar responded by saying that she was not linked to any one political party, although the NSi and SDS were supporting her candidacy.
Several nonparliamentary parties also took part in the elections, along with a number of nonparty lists, garnering a total 22.7% of the vote.
www.time.com /time/europe/eu/column/0,13716,395879,00.html   (1164 words)

  
 Weekly News
Rop reportedly made the decision in response to Rupel’s recent attendance at the conservative parties’ Assembly of the Republic, a sort of convention designed to forge a coalition of conservative parties for this fall’s parliamentary elections.
Speaking to RTVS, Dimitrij Rupel said that his dismissal is akin to the disciplinary tactics used by the League of Communists, and that the LDS today is in many ways similar to the old communist party.
Several parties currently holding seats in parliament, including the Slovene People’s Party (SLS) did not meet the threshold and therefore did not win representation in Brussels.
www.geocities.com /ljubljanalife/2004/26jun.htm   (1871 words)

  
 Ageing - IPAA implementation 4th review and appraisal - Part 7/7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
First, the speed of ageing in developing countries: some developing countries are projected to increase the number of their older persons almost 10 times faster than developed countries.
Second, the old-age dependency ratio in developed economies: by 2050, that ratio is estimated to reach 56 in Japan and 69 in Italy.
Thus, measures to promote implementation of the Plan of Action would best be conceived within a long-term perspective to the year 2020 - a 2020 strategy - that elaborates concepts, outlines principles and suggests policy options based on the International Plan of Action on Ageing and the United Nations Principles for Older Persons.
www.un.org /esa/socdev/ageing/age4ra07.htm   (1230 words)

  
 A lonely Italian retiree puts himself up for adoption | csmonitor.com
SAN POLO DEI CAVALIERI, ITALY – Seven cats and a modest book collection are all that 79-year-old Giorgio Angelozzi has for company on most days.
In a side cabinet sit Greek dictionaries and works by Horace and Pliny.
Almost 1 in 3 Italians will be a pensioner.
www.csmonitor.com /2004/0923/p01s04-woeu.html   (1116 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Country profiles | Country profile: Slovenia
Parliament backed Janez Jansa, the leader of the centre-right Slovenian Democratic Party, as prime minister after elections in October 2004 in which the party almost doubled its vote.
The party forged a coalition with three other parties: New Slovenia and the People's Party - both centre-right - and the centre-left Democratic Party of Pensioners.
The Liberal Democrats, the party of Mr Jansa's predecessor Anton Rop, had been in government for virtually all of the previous 13 years since Slovenian independence.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/country_profiles/newsid_1097000/1097296.stm   (657 words)

  
 IFES Election Guide - Election Profile for Italy
Assembly: Italy has a bicameral Parliament (Parlamento) consisting of the Senate (Senato della Repubblica) with 322 seats and the Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati) with 630 seats.
In the Senate (Senato della Repubblica), 315 members are elected by party list proportional representation, 5 members are appointed by the President of the Republic, and 2 members are ex-officio (former Presidents of the Republic); the elected ones serve 5-year terms, whereas the appointed and the ex-officio serve for life.
Party coalitions need to obtain at least 10% of the valid votes to gain seats in the Chamber.
www.electionguide.org /election.php?ID=993   (357 words)

  
 Press Room
Pensioners Party led by party Chairman Rafi Eitan to Visit Yad Vashem Tomorrow
Ceremony Commemorating the Holocaust in Italy Tomorrow at Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem Responds to Poll in Italy Revealing Widespread Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism
www1.yadvashem.org /about_yad/press_room/press_release.html   (3738 words)

  
 EU: Political Parties
French Communist Party (Com-4); Independent (Com-2); Workers Fight (Com-3); Revolutionary Communist League (Com-2); Greens (Grn-9); Socialist Party (Soc-18); Citizens Movement (Soc-2); Radical Party of the Left (Soc-2); Rally for the Republic (Consv-12); Union for French Democracy (Consv-9); Rally for France and the Independence of Europe (ES-12.
Party of Democratic Socialism (Com-6); Alliance 90/The Greens (Grn-6); Social Democratic Party (Soc-34); Christian Democratic Union (Consv-43); Christian Social Union (Consv-10)
United Left (Com-4); Andalusian Party (Grn-1); Basque Solidarity (Grn-1); Basque Nationalist Party (Grn-1); Galician Nationalist Bloc (Grn-1); Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Soc-24); Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (Lib-2); Canarian Coalition (Lib-1); Popular Party (Consv-27); Democratic Union of Catalonia (Consv-1); We Basques (Reg-1.
www.gis.net /~pldr/EUPP.html   (495 words)

  
 OMRI: Pursuing Balkan Peace, Vol. 2, No. 7, 97-02-18
Democratic Party leader Zoran Djindjic, addressing some 10,000 people in downtown Belgrade on 15 February, observed: "Our three goals were getting back our election victory, achieving a freeing up of the media, and [obtaining] fair electoral conditions prior to the next voting.
Vefa froze the deposits of its 80,000 investors after five pyramids went bust last month, but Alimucaj continues to claim that his investors have nothing to fear and will get back their deposits in three or four months, once the climate of insecurity has passed.
Stoyanov in an address in the state media endorsed the government's decision, calling NATO "the only serious guarantor of security." Vladimir Topencharov of the Bulgarian Socialist Party said the decision should have been taken by a cabinet elected by the parliament rather than by a caretaker government.
www.hri.org /news/balkans/pbp/1997/97-02-18.pbp.html   (4084 words)

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