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  Slovenian Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS — Slovenian: Slovenska demokratska stranka), previously the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia (Slovenian: Socialdemokratska stranka Slovenije) is a political party in Slovenia.
It is led by Janez Janša, a former member of the Communist Party and one of the leaders of its youth wing.
It was given a six-point plurality over the past governing Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (Slovenian: Liberalna Demokracija Slovenije); as of 2005 the SDS leads a governing coalition consisting of four parties.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slovenian_Democratic_Party   (188 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Democratic Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian: Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine, HDZ BiH) is a political party of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Democratic Party East Timor or Democratic Party In Timor-Leste is a political party of East Timor, established on June 10, 2001.
The Democratic Party (Romanian: Partidul Democrat, PD) is a social-democrat party of Romania.
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 Slovenia, a new emerging economy
The Slovenian Tourist Board is said to be satisfied with the half-yearly tourist figures, which indicate that the number of foreign visitors rose by 7% year-on-year, STA reported recently.
Slovenian Railways on July 29th signed a contract worth €77.8m with Siemens on the delivery of 20 multi-purpose electric engines for freight transport, with the engines scheduled for delivery between mid-2006 and beginning of 2008, STA reported.
In the first half of this year, Slovenian Railways posted revenues of 33.4bn tolars (€139.3m) and a net profit of 613m tolars (€2.56m), which is in stark opposition to high losses posted in the previous years.
www.newnations.com /archive/2004/September/si.html   (2279 words)

  
 Slovenia (08/05)
Slovenian society is built on consensus, which has converged on a social-democrat model.
Slovenian enterprises have a tradition of market orientation that has served them well in the transition period, as they moved energetically to reorient trade from former Yugoslav markets to those of central and eastern Europe.
However, in many cases under the Slovenian brand of privatization, managers and workers in formerly "socially owned" enterprises have become the majority shareholders, perpetuating the practices of "worker management" that were the hallmark of the Yugoslav brand of communism.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3407.htm   (6203 words)

  
 Parties Society, Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) Current programme and news, background information, president's profile, Congress proceedings, and election information and archives provided.
UDNA (National Democratic Union of Angola) Provides an overview of principles, listing of members of the leadership, and scanned pamphlets from the 2001 election.
Liberal Democratic Party of Japan Primary center-right party in Japan, with a platform of smaller government, decentralization, moral education, and individual rights.
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 European People's Party - Politics.ie Wiki
The statutes of the European People's Party are approved in July in Luxembourg, and the EPP is founded, with Leo Tindemans being elected President of the EPP.
The Spanish Popular Party hosts the eleventh EPP Congress in Madrid, at which the 'EPP- Force of the Union' is adopted and the foundation of the European Union of Seniors (ESU) is approved.
In February seven parties in the prospective member-countries in Central and Eastern Europe are candidates for EPP observer status: KDU/CSL and ODA (Czech Republic), KDH and MKDM (Slovakia), KDNP and MDF (Hungary), PNT-CD (Romania).
www.politics.ie /wiki/index.php?title=European_People's_Party   (1107 words)

  
 [ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
In a related development, Miha Brejc of the conservative opposition Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) resigned from his position as a substitute member of the Slovenian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
The Slovenian Armed Forces (SV) are also open to women, who currently comprise 14.5 percent of military professionals -- including 6 percent of noncommissioned officers and 3 percent of officers.
Slovenian women have a strong presence in many fields that are elsewhere male domains, including chemistry, medicine, and pharmaceuticals.
www.rferl.org /newsline/2004/03/5-NOT/not-080304.asp?po=y   (773 words)

  
 Slovenia Country Guide - History and Government - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing
Slovenia is the only one of the ex-Yugoslav republics to have a substantial, as opposed to a merely nominal, multi-party democracy, although it is on the road to permanent coalition politics with three parties (the customary European mix of centre-right, centre-left and liberal) as the main contestants.
The present government, which took office in October 2000, is typical of this pattern, consisting of a four-party coalition led by the Slovenian Liberal Democratic party, the centrist grouping which has consistently been the largest party in the national assembly.
Slovenian foreign policy focused on improving links with Western Europe, with the eventual aim of joining both the EU and NATO.
www.worldtravelguide.net /data/svn/svn580.asp   (907 words)

  
 Electing to Abstain - by Nebojsa Malic
Although Janez Jansa's Slovenian Democratic Party takes a more nationalist tone than the outgoing PM Anton Rop's Liberal Democrats, its European policy is identical.
The two million Slovenians ought to enjoy their country while they still can; whoever acts as the agent of the EU in the meantime is rather irrelevant.
In their former bastion of Nis, a popular candidate from one of the parties in the government coalition unseated the Democratic incumbent, while in Novi Sad, the capital of Vojvodina, a margin of some 700 votes handed another defeat to the Democrats.
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The seven Slovenian NGOs to have been awarded the project grants were the Institute for Sustainable Development, the Novo mesto Regional Chamber of Commerce, the fund for development and training of human resources Eim, radio station Radio Student, the Ekvilib institute, the contemporary arts centre and the association of Slovenian organic farmers.
The specific goals of the Slovenian projects include inclusion of non-governmental sector in national and European plans for organic farming, encouraging rural development in the EU based on Slovenia's experience, participation in European debate on genetically modified organisms and establishment of a network of Slovenian NGOs for Western Balkans.
The Slovenian Railways' general manager intends to propose to the supervisory board and the general meeting even before the end of the year that a strategic contract be signed with Stinnes.
www.gzs.si /eng/ASPDatoteka.asp?ID=157   (10708 words)

  
 Slovenia, Poster Child for the New Europe - Xenophobic, protectionist, and on the verge of economic decline. By Samuel ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Slovenian gross domestic product has had solid growth of between 2 percent and 4 percent over the last five years, while Western Europe is fighting off stagnation.
His party, along with other conservative and nationalist groups, forced a motion through parliament calling for a public referendum to overturn a bill it had passed in February to restore the former citizens' rights.
While the erased are still in limbo, Jansa's party gained an electoral boost, and it is now threatening to unseat the ruling post-Communist government in the fall's general election, a testament to the success of playing the nationalist card.
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 Democratic Party Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This page is about political parties with Democratic or similar in their names.
Indonesia—Democratic Party (Indonesia), Indonesian Democratic Party, Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle
Netherlands Antilles—Democratic Party of Bonaire, Democratic Party of Curaçao, Democratic Party of Sint Eustatius, Democratic Party of Sint Maarten
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 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
Slovenian politicians are also using that --as well as the latest -- dispute to score points with voters ahead of the 3 October parliamentary elections.
In a statement in "Delo" on 21 September, the party urged the government to respond to all incidents with official complaints to the EU, NATO, and the UN Security Council to block Croatian EU accession and to demand NATO protection.
It remains to be seen whether Slovenian parties will find common ground on relations with Croatia, let alone reach an understanding with their Croatian colleagues.
www.rferl.org /newsline/2004/09/5-NOT/not-270904.asp   (1056 words)

  
 The Party Is NOT Over
The, Liberal-Democratic party, whose president is a former prime minister of communist Yugoslavia, won the elections with 23% of the votes.
Slovenian politicians should be promising programs for increased national productivity and for honest business environment in which small business will flourish, creating new jobs and the tax base.
The Slovenian diplomacy, such as it is, did not see fit to try to restore the balance by establishing the previous good relations with France and Britain and paid even less attention to the United States and post Soviet Russia.
www.prah.net /slovenia/politics/Party%20not%20over.htm   (5581 words)

  
 Adams County Democratic Committee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Adams County Democratic Committee is sponsoring the annual Fall dinner on October 20 at The Pike Restaurant at 6:30 p.m.
County Democratic candidates for office will also be in attendance to talk with voters about their concerns.
The Adams County Democratic Committee is dedicated to the proposition that Adams County is a beautiful, productive and historic area, and, therefore, we, its members, are dedicated to sponsoring and supporting candidates who will work to preserve and improve the quality of life that our county offers.
www.adamsdemocrats.com   (576 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Politics of Slovenia Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Janez Drnovsek of the center-left Liberal Democratic Party of Slovenia (LDS) was reelected Prime Minister in the October 15, 2000 parliamentary elections.
Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia or DeSUS Anton Rous, chairman;
Slovenian Democratic Party or SDS Janez Jansa, chairman;
www.ipedia.com /politics_of_slovenia.html   (1587 words)

  
 European governments: Slovenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Parties: (SLS+SKD) + SDS + NSi (6), (7)
In 1991 SDZ split into two parties: the Democratic Party (DS) and the National Democrats (ND), which in its turn split in two factions: one joined SKD and the other remained independent under the ND brand up to its merger with SDS (new name of SDZS) in May 1995.
(2) ZL was born in Nov 1992 as an alliance led by the SDP (founded in 1990 from the late ZKS) and also comprised by the SDU (founded 1990), the DSS (founded Feb 1991) and the DeSUS.
www.terra.es /personal2/monolith/0g-sln.htm   (432 words)

  
 Financial Review: Upset election win in Slovenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) and its ally, the conservative New Slovenia (NSi) party, had taken 38 per cent of the vote compared with the governing centre-left coalition's 37 per cent, the electoral commission said after 99 per cent of votes were counted.
These include a row about building a mosque in the capital Ljubljana, and a referendum on restoring citizenship to some 18,000 members of fellow former Yugoslav states that were wiped off the register when the communist federation boke up.
Sunday's close results mean that neither bloc had taken enough votes to form a government on its own, putting the independent Slovenian Nationalist Party in the position of kingmaker with its estimated 6.3 per cent of the vote.
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 Nationalists pull ahead in Balkan polls   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The results, issued by the electoral organisers, said that the Croatian Democratic Union, the Serb Democratic Party (SDS), founded by the war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, and the Muslim Party of Democratic Action were well ahead.
The three parties in Bosnia used their campaigns to spread the fear of other ethnic groups.
In Serbia, where municipal runoff elections were held in Belgrade and Novi Sad yesterday, ultranationalist candidates from the Serbian Radical Party of the war crimes indictee Vojislav Seselj were endangering the chances of pro-reform contenders.
www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/oct04/hed6731.shtml   (509 words)

  
 Slovenia Government Information
Slovenia is a member of all major international financial institutions--the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development--as well as 40 other international organizations, among them the WTO, of which it is a founding member.
Since the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia has instituted a stable, multi-party, democratic political system, characterized by regular elections, a free press, and an excellent human rights record.
Political parties: National Assembly seats--Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), 29 seats; Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS), 23 ; United List of Social Democrats (ZLSD), 10; New Slovenia - Christian People’s Party (NSi), 9; Slovene People’s Party (SLS), 7; Slovene National Party (SNS), 6; Democratic Party of Slovenian Pensioners (DeSUS), 4; Italian minority, 1; Hungarian minority, 1.
www.traveldocs.com /si/govern.htm   (1309 words)

  
 Slovenian Homepage in English
Since some of them are also well known members of communist parties, the danger is that a link with the post-communists' movements exists and that there will be attempts at luring some people away from down-to-earth market economics by dangling in front of them the illusion of a self-management utopia.
The Slovenian Social Democratic Party is under attack from Professor Rizman who is best known for having described in 1974, his colleague Jerovsek "as not writing in line with Marxism".
This has happened to the other Slovenian Social Democratic Party (which similarly to the Czech Party does not originate from a communists organization) which in competition with the United List of Social Democrats (former League of communists) is deemed so rightist that the Socialist International does not want to admit it.
www.prah.net /slovenia/politics/sirccom2.htm   (1762 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The conservative opposition New Slovenia (NSi) party garnered 23.5 percent of the vote (two seats), followed by LDS-DeSUS at 21.9 percent (two seats), the center-right opposition Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) at 17.7 percent (two seats), and the ZLSD at 14.2 percent (one seat).
The 4:3 victory of opposition parties reflects a lack of public confidence in the government and a steady erosion of support for the LDS in particular (see "RFE/RL Balkan Report," 6 February 2004).
The recently created, centrist Slovenia is Ours (SJN) party won nearly twice as many votes as the SMS, and could garner enough votes in the fall to oust the SMS from the political scene altogether.
www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/6/F0F699C8-1E9F-45DE-AEF5-0A254FDB6D6C.html   (943 words)

  
 Slovenian Homepage in English
The Slovenian Liberal Democratic Party, formerly the Socialist-Communist-Youth organization, is led by the current Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Drnovsek.
The Liberal Democratic Party actually agrees that the killing of tens of thousands of Slovenians had been done by the Slovenian secret police under the command of Ivan Macek, a secret police general and a revered member of Slovenian Communist leadership.
But, the Liberal Democratic Party refuses to admit that the mass murders of 1945 were the crime for which Slovenian Communist Party was responsible.
www.prah.net /slovenia/politics/repainted.htm   (926 words)

  
 Slovenian parliament passes law on "erased" former Yugoslav citizens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Slovenian leadership declared secession from Yugoslavia unilaterally, against the Yugoslav constitution, which was illegal according to any international law.
Slovenian chauvinistic and racist state was, and still is, unfit for Europe.
In the Slovenian case, the proficiency in language was a filter to keep non-Slovenes out, knowing that Serbs (the largest non-Slovenian minority in Slovenia) have difficulty learning the language proficiently because of similarity between Serbian and Slovenian.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1011528/posts   (3964 words)

  
 State
National Assembly: 90 deputies (88 elected representatives of the parliamentary parties and one representative each from the Italian and Hungarian national communities).
Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DESUS) - 4 deputies
The current government coalition consists of four parties: the Slovenian Democratic Party, New Slovenia-Christian People's Party, Slovenian People's Party and the Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia.
www.matkurja.com /en/country-info/state   (478 words)

  
 Janez Jansa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The title given to this article lacks diacritics because of certain technical limitations.
Janez Janša (born September 17 1958 as Ivan Janša) is a Slovenian politician and chief of the Slovenian Democratic Party since 1995.
In 1989, Janša was involved in the founding of the first opposition party in Slovenia, the (SDZ).
www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Janez_Jansa   (196 words)

  
 B92 >> News >> Archive
There is also the matter of borders, with the EU maintaining that the borders of Kosovo may be altered upon agreement, but the Albanian community in Kosovo cannot join the province with a neighbouring nation in which Albanians live.
The EU and Contact Group are also insisting on the implementation of standards for democratic, political and economic progress in Kosovo during the status discussion process.
Sources in Brussels say that there are a good amount of officials in the EU who support the idea of granting Kosovo conditional independence, but are aware that announcing such a stance would create more problems in the region than already exist, and would encourage separatist tensions in the entire region.
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