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With politicians having failed the people they represent miserably across Europe, its seems odd that now both Greece and Italy have turned to Technocrats. "Technocracy is a form of government where technical experts are in control of decision making in their respective fields. Engineers...

Chirac mocks Sarkozy in memoirs Former French President Jacques Chirac has mocked his successor and party colleague Nicolas Sarkozy in memoirs covering his 12 years in office. article

Do you think democracy works? Lets take the UK 2010 elections. info If we ignore the individual political parties but instead split the vote in a left wing / right wing way. Right Wing Conservatives - share of the vote 36.1% Left Wing/Centre Left Labour - share of the vote 29% Lib dems -...

UK?s Cameron says immigration ?unacceptably high? November 22, 2010 Cameron revealed that the UK was seeing two million new immigrants per decade. ? Reuters pic LONDON, Nov 22 ? Immigration to Britain is ?unacceptably high? and must be brought down, but this can be done while ensuring...

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I thought to be in a member of the EU you had to clearly seperate religion from the state, but I keep seeing political parties called: - Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams - Belgium - Christian Democratic Union of Germany (Angela Merkel) - Christian Democratic Party - Norway - The Christian...

I'm sure some of you have seen this Political Compass How did you do? I am: Economic: -8.00 Social: -7.23 Left wing libertarian - no surprise there!