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	www.acquirescholarship.com /traffic-light.html (346 words)

	Traffic light coalition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Traffic light coalition is a term originating in German politics where it describes a coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Free Democratic Party (FDP), and the Green Party.
		However, as the Liberal Forum's party colour is light blue, this is a reference to the political similarity between this coalition and a German traffic light coalition rather than to the party's actual symbolic colours.
		In terms of the party's political positions, a red-yellow-green coalition may be more likely in the United Kingdom than in Germany as the Liberal Democrats have traditionally tended to economics in the social democratic mould of their precursor party the Social Democratic Party and have worked with Labour in the last two Scottish Executives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Traffic_light_coalition (586 words)

	Jamaica coalition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jamaica coalition (German: Jamaika-Koalition; also known as the Jamaica alliance, Jamaica traffic light, fl traffic light or Schwampel) is a term used to identify a potential coalition among the parties of the German Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU), Free Democratic Party (FDP), and the Green Party.
		The term refers to an association between the symbolic colors of the parties in such a coalition — fl for the CDU/CSU; yellow for the FDP; and green for the Green Party — and the colors of the flag of Jamaica.
		The expression Black traffic light (German: Schwarze Ampel or the portmanteau word Schwampel) refers to the classic traffic light coalition, an alliance between the SPD (red), FDP (yellow), and the Greens, together whose symbolic colors match the colors of most German traffic lights.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jamaica_coalition (380 words)

	TKS on National Review Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		The FDP rejected the "Traffic Light Coalition" with the Greens and SDP.
		On paper, the three left-of-center parties could form a coalition - the problem is that the ideological gap from SDP to the Greens to the Left is kind of like the range from Joe Lieberman to John Kerry to Daily Kos.
		There is now discussion of a "Traffic Light" coalition - which includes the red SDP (Schroder's party) the green of the Greens, and the yellow of the FDP, an economically conservative business-oriented party.
	tks.nationalreview.com /archives/week_2005_09_18.asp (567 words)

	GMF – German Election 2005: Waiting for a New Government
		Grand Coalition: The CDU and its smaller Bavarian sister party CSU, with 35.2% of the vote (226 seats), and the SPD, with 34.3% of the vote (222 seats), could join together, as was the case from 1966-69, in a Grand Coalition.
		"Traffic Light" Coalition: A second option would be a coalition between the SPD (red), the FDP (yellow) with 9.8% (61 seats), and the Greens with 8.1% of the vote (51 seats), dubbed a "traffic light" coalition.
		Conservatives and Greens have formed coalitions at the municipal level, and the younger generation in both parties would like to take this model to the state level; but most think it is too early for a national cooperation.
	www.gmfus.org /press/article.cfm?id=43 (872 words)

	The Happy Loser by Ulrich Biele
		The so-called traffic light coalition between SPD (red), F. (yellow) and Greens is not an option either.
		They reneged a coalition with the SPD once and helped Helmut Kohl to power, but they will never be considered a worthy ally if they pull this kind of stunt too often.
		Westerwelle, a social-liberal coalition as we already had in the late seventies, is not going to happen either.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig6/biele3.html (890 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Merkel boosted by party support
		A coalition deal must be reached before 18 October, the deadline for the new parliament to sit and choose a new chancellor.
		The Left party, newly formed from disenchanted SPD members and former communists, took 8.7% (54 seats), and the Greens, Mr Schroeder's coalition partner, won 8.1% (51 seats).
		There is speculation about a possible "traffic light" coalition - never tried before - between the SPD, Greens and the FDP.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4262638.stm (491 words)

	The September 18 National Elections in Germany, September 26, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Merkel the chancellorship, Chancellor Schröder could form a so-called “traffic light coalition” between the SPD, FDP and Greens to remain in command.
		Because the Jamaica coalition has never been tried on any level of German government and because the FDP is unwilling to join the SPD and Greens in order to from a traffic light coalition, the scenario which is most likely to occur is a joining of Germany’s two largest political parties.
		With the looming possibility of a CDU/SPD coalition, the final question discussed by the panel was the future of the chancellorship.
	www.aicgs.org /events/2005/09262005_summary.shtml (928 words)

	Coalition Math \| TPMCafe
		Even if you assume he would prefer an SDP-Green-FDP "traffic light" coalition or a "grand coalition" with the CDU/SDU with him as Chancellor it seems he ought to threaten to form the pan-left coalition in order to frighten the CDU/SDU and the FDP out of their insistence on dumping Schroder.
		I think one party or another has ruled out every one of the possible coalitions (i.e., Schroder ruled out a grand coalition, the Free Dems ruled out a coalition with the Greens, etc.), so somebody's going to have to change their mind if there is any deal to be made.
		As a matter of fact, the Linkspartei is a recently formed coalition of the eastern former communists with a pan-German popular protest movement against Schroeder's reforms that arose last year.
	www.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/9/19/154632/102 (3961 words)

	Analysis: Germany`s coalition options (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		While a grand coalition would have a large majority in the federal parliament, critics say it might strengthen political extremism.
		A grand coalition would result in stagnation of the reform process, some have predicted, others say it would bring Germany forward, albeit at a slower pace.
		The traffic light coalition, named after the party colors of SPD (red), FDP (yellow) and Greens, has already been ruled out by the FDP.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /europe/printer_1049710.php (877 words)

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		Speculation about new coalition alliances is rife given that the SDP and its government partners the Greens do not have a majority either.
		Several different coalitions are being mooted, with both the leaders of the big parties claiming election victory.
		There are other possible combinations — the ‘traffic light coalition’ would involve the liberal FDP joining the Greens and SPD, while there is even talk of the Left party, Die Linke, (consisting of SPD members, who left the party because they felt Schr?der had betrayed its principles, and east German communists).
	www.cyprus-mail.com /news/main.php?id=21937&cat_id=1 (553 words)

	Jamaica or Traffic Light? What Comes Next \| Germany \| Deutsche Welle \| 19.09.2005
		Industry heads and economic analysts have repeatedly stated that a grand coalition would be the worst possible option for the reforms necessary to fix Germany's ailing economy.
		Such a coalition has never existed, neither on a federal or state level, and experts say it would be surprising if it was tried out for the first time on the federal level.
		Economists assessing the possibility of a grand coalition of the SPD and CDU in German government after the election are concerned that such a coupling could spell more trouble for the economy.´(Sept. 18, 2005)
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,1564,1714057,00.html (865 words)

	CNN.com - Merkel urges Schroeder to concede - Sep 19, 2005
		Schroeder's current coalition partners, the Greens, won 8 percent of the vote and 51 seats, and the new Left Party won nearly 9 percent and 54 seats.
		Still up for grabs -- and a potential focal point as parties begin coalition talks -- are two to four seats in the eastern city of Dresden, where voting was delayed until October 2 because of the death of a candidate.
		Such a move would likely torpedo her plans to push through aggressive labor and tax reforms she says are needed to cut unemployment, which hit post-war highs of more than 11 percent this year.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/09/19/germany.election (964 words)

	UCLA CEES: Victory Deflated, Delayed, Debunked
		A proposed "traffic light" coalition that would have united the SPD and Greens with economic conservatives in the FDP failed to materialize, conceivably because of the prominence of economic issues in the campaign.
		The "traffic light" moniker owes to the color-coding of German political parties.
		According to the graduate students' visual aid, the grand coalition was finally the least painful bargain to be struck—with one exception.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /euro/article.asp?parentid=32516 (1113 words)

	Germany Info: Government & Politics
		SPD-FDP (red-yellow) – If the SPD is unable to gain a majority through a coalition with the Greens, it may renew its association with the FDP, with whom it governed from 1969 to 1982.
		Grand Coalition – Both the SPD and the CDU/CSU have formally ruled out a coalition with their traditional opponents, in what the parliamentary system would refer to as a grand coalition.
		In a grand coalition, the party with the greatest number of seats selects the chancellor.
	www.germany-info.org /relaunch/politics/new/pol_wahl2002_2.html (610 words)

	::.Angus Reid Consultants.::
		In the Sept. 18 federal election, the CDU and the CSU received 35.2 per cent of all cast ballots, and elected 225 lawmakers to the lower house.
		Neither of the two main parties was able to assemble a coalition government with their preferred partners.
		The "Traffic Light Coalition"—which would incorporate the SPD, the FDP and Grune—is second with 27 per cent, followed by the "Grand Coalition" of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats with 25 per cent.
	www.angus-reid.com /polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/9158 (344 words)

	The Changing Colors of Berlin - by Dr. Jackson Janes - November 1, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		Yet, it is worth commenting on the fact that the expected creation of a SPD-Green-FDP ("Ampel" or traffic light) coalition under SPD leader Klaus Wowereit reflects the continuing strong hold Chancellor Schröder has on his party at this point.
		Considerations of a coalition with the very successful PDS were rejected by the Chancellor's team in favor of an alternative coalition with the Greens and the FDP.
		Of course, these three way coalitions are rare, don't have a very good track record, and don't last very long either.
	www.aicgs.org /at-issue/ai-changingcolors.shtml (718 words)

	USATODAY.com - German parties begin coalition maneuvering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-23)
		But the grand coalition option was fraught as Merkel and Schroeder both claimed the right to be chancellor and neither showed any sign of relenting.
		If Schroeder could now persuade the FDP to walk over to his side the result would be what the Germans call a "traffic light coalition" because of their party colours — red, yellow and green.
		The third and most remote possibility was considered to be a so-called "Jamaican coalition", again based on the party colours, between the Christian Democrats, the FDP and the Greens.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-09-19-germancoalitiontalks_x.htm?csp=36 (1833 words)

	German politicians still in disarray -DAWN - Top Stories; September 21, 2005
		There is concern, however, that such a cross-party coalition would be weak, messy and unstable — and unlikely to undertake the kind of radical reforms needed to regenerate the German economy and cut 11.4 per cent unemployment.
		In addition to the prospect of a “grand coalition,” analysts say there could be an alliance between the Social Democrats, the Greens and the FDP — nicknamed the “traffic light” coalition because of the red, green and yellow trademark colours of the three political parties.
		There is also talk of an alliance between the conservatives, the liberals and the greens in a so-called “Jamaica coalition,” — called such because the fl, yellow and green colours associated with the three parties are the same as those of the Caribbean nation’s flag.
	www.dawn.com /2005/09/21/top11.htm (499 words)

	Germany Info: Government & Politics
		But to build a majority coalition, the social democrats had to pick from among the minority parties: the environmental Greens (9.1%), the centrist FDP (9.9%), the successor to the former communist party PDS (22.6%) or the conservative CDU (23.8%).
		The SPD (red), FDP (yellow) and Greens were to form what was popularly called the "Ampel" (traffic light) coalition.
		Chancellor Schröder, who advocated the three-way agreement, is thought to have looked upon the Berlin "traffic light experiment" as a proving ground for such an arrangement on the federal level after general elections in 2002.
	www.germany-info.org /relaunch/info/archives/headlines/pol_redpop.html (380 words)

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		The most likely scenario of a grand coalition means that the winners of the election, the FDP and the Left Party, will be on the outside.
		The grand coalition broke down prematurely last time, and the next early elections are already on the cards.
		"If it were to be a grand coalition under Schroeder rather than Merkel it would probably only make a modest difference to policies, because it (a grand coalition under Merkel) would not have been able to push through a significant part of her reform programme anyhow.
	today.reuters.com /business/newsarticle.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews&storyID=nL1833091 (1286 words)

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