Swiss nationalists seek election surge
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A nationalist party whose anti-immigrant campaign posters featuring white sheep kicking out a black sheep helped sparked a riot is hoping for its best-ever showing in parliamentary elections Sunday.
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State elections in the former East Germany on Sunday are expected to see a resurgence of the far right. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrats are facing heavy losses, as voters express their anger at high unemployment and welfare reforms.
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In the first national referendum on an issue that has divided both the European Union and the United States, Swiss voters have backed proposals to allow stem-cell research.
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Religious leaders stir ethnic tensions by lobbying for nationalist parties ahead of local polls, a human rights group says.
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Switzerland&#39;s main right-wing party is shaking up the country&#39;s traditionally placid electoral scene with a febrile campaign denouncing alleged conspiracies, while some opponents have branded its tactics Fascist.
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France's crusader of the far right, who rallied flag-waving followers at a National Front party congress Sunday, is making his sixth long-shot bid for France's presidency.
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The Swiss parliament's biggest party pushes for a national ban on minarets.
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French Socialist heavyweights braved a key test in the battle to represent their party in presidential elections next year as they lined up to defend their ideas before thousands of activists.
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Swiss pacifists are demanding an end to arms exports and today released a flight of doves outside parliament in the capital, Berne, to draw attention to a call for a ban on arms exports. The action coincided with the handing-in of signatures for a people's initiative which will give the Swiss voters the final say on the issue.  The backers of the initiative chose World Peace Day to hand in 109,000 signatures they collected, and celebrated with a flag-waving rally on Parliament Square. "Swiss weapons kill - worldwide" the authors of the initiative say. They want to outlaw the export and transfer of all military material, including technology that can be used for the development, production and use of weapons.
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Austrians began voting Sunday morning in national elections that could swing the alpine republic back to the political center after more than six years of influence by the extreme right.
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Switzerland's largest political party is accused of promoting an oppressive deportation scheme that allegedly mirrors a law operated by Nazi Germany.
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The Swiss voted in a general election on Friday after an unusually tense campaign marked by a riot and charges of racism levelled against the country's biggest party.
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The far right Swiss People's Party was on course for a clear lead in Switzerland's general election Sunday while the Socialists suffered a major setback, according to a state television estimate.
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The prime minister is to urge his party in Scotland to step up the fight against the Scottish National Party.
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Neutral Switzerland backed plans on   Sunday to make it harder for asylum-seekers to gain entry to   the rich Alpine state, according to early poll projections.
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A delegation of Swiss parliamentarians, academics and writers is embarking on a week-long visit to the occupied territories on Saturday.
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Swiss voters looked set last night to approve new legislation allowing stem-cell research, to the relief of the country&#39;s pharmaceuticals and biotechnology sectors.