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16 Cards in this Set
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Who is Angela Merkel?
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Chancellor of Germany.
Grand Coalition Leader. First women chancellor. |
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UK National Health Services
-Pluses -Minuses |
Pillar of Social welfare system.
Pluses +Provides quality healthcare +Minimal to no costs for patients +Everyone covered regardless of race, sex, age, class, social standing. Minuses -Waiting lists -Nurse shortages -Management |
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France's Integration Model
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-The state does not want to know if you follow traditions from another culture.
-Demotes Multiculturalism, everyone is french. -No data collected on minorities. |
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Youth Labor Law (CPE)
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-Led to unrest in Spring 2006.
-Made hiring/ firing more flexible. +Under 26 could be fired for no reason. -Made youth angry and insecure. |
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Single European Act
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-Remove nontariff barriers.
-Frontier control -Fiscal Issues -Different Continents -Technical matters |
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Monetary Union (1999- 2002)
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1) Common Currency- Adopt the Euro
2) Establish European Central bank |
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European Commission
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1) Proposes legislation
2) Administer vanous policies 3) Represents EU in international organizations. -Consists of 27 commissioners for each country. -Promotes Europe -President of the EC; Very important; Current- Jose Barrosso from Portugal. |
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European Council
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-Most powerful political institution.
-Represents national interest of the states. |
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Roles in European Council
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1) Decision making
2) Coordinating role for economic policies. 3) Council shares budget authority. 4) Define and implement the common and foreign policy. |
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Types of decision making
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1) Simple Majority
-Nothing complicated 2) Unanimity -Unaynomous support from all 27 countries. 3) Qualified majority voting -Majority of the states |
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British Campaigns
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Very short, usually only a few weeks.
Electoral turnout getting better. |
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Christian Democrats
Where? What? |
Where? German Political Party
What? -A party with efforts to expand to Catholics and Protestants. -Social Free Market: Capitalism with a heart. -Angela Merkel --> Current Chancellor. |
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Christian Social Union
What? |
More conservative than Christian Democrats.
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The Grand Coalition
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2 Rivals working together
-Christian Democrats -Social Democrats |
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Social Democrats
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-Oldest political party.
-Repositioned themselves to be more central than left. |
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Free Democrats
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-Pivotal party
-Centrist -Conservatives on economic issues -More liberal on social and foreign policy. *Jr. Coalition member -2 big parties need them -Key cabinet positions for being jr. coalition member. |
