Swedish center-right alliance ousts Social Democrats
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A center-right alliance headed by   Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt won power in Sweden,   ending 12 years of Social Democrat rule with vows to cut taxes   and trim back the welfare state to boost jobs.
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroederâs party was routed in elections in the small western state of Saarland, where public anger over his cuts in social programmes also boosted a small far-right party that benefited from the national mood of protest.
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Fredrik Reinfeldt, Sweden's next   prime minister, met key allies on Monday to begin talks on   forming a coalition government after he ended 12 years of   Social Democrat rule by pledging to cut taxes and create jobs.
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A new right-wing party dealt a heavy blow to Bulgaria's ruling Socialist Party in local elections on Sunday, winning control of the country's two largest cities, according to exit polls.
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A vote to oust the far-right justice minister has brought an end to consensus rule in Switzerland.
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Saab chief executive Ake Svensson fires his deputy Ingemar Andersson.
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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 17 Â Sweden appeared set to sweep away 12 years of center-left government today, voting to reject its longtime prime minister, Goran Persson, in favor of a conservative candidate who has pledged to renew the Swedish welfare state.
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A top official from Sweden's opposition party quits over a political spying row - just days before elections.
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The Social Democrats, equal partners in Germany's ruling coalition, voted Friday to reverse one of their signature economic reforms in a move that will increase the tension in Chancellor Angela Merkel's left-right government.
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Fredrik Reinfeldt, leader of the center-right coalition that won Swedish parliamentary elections on Sunday, once wrote a book criticizing the country's vaunted cradle-to-grave welfare state.
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Centre-right leader Fredrik Reinfedlt   starts work on forming a coalition government in Sweden on   Monday after ending 12 years of Social Democrat rule with vows   to cut taxes and trim the welfare state.
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The head of Swiss-Swedish engineering group ABB quits after a clash over the firm's strategy.
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Sweden's election looked set to go   down to the wire on Sunday, with television projections giving   a center-right alliance vowing to trim the welfare state a   razor thin lead over the ruling Social Democrats.
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Fredrik Reinfeldt, Sweden's next   prime minister, began talks on Monday with key allies on   forming a coalition government after his centre-right alliance   ended 12 years of Social Democrat rule.
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The surprise election win for the Swedish conservatives and the crisis over the Hungarian PM's admission that he lied to win an election pre-occupy Europe's newspapers.
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A top aide to Swedish PM Goeran Persson quits after criticism over his response to the Asian tsunami.
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Italy's prime minister resigned Wednesday after his center-left government Wednesday lost a key foreign policy vote.Comment