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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NEO-NAZI parties made sweeping gains in vital regional elections in Germany last night to further tarnish the countryâs image and plunge Chancellor Gerhard SchrÃ¶derâs ruling coalition party into fresh crisis.
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Neutral Switzerland, home to   humanitarian agencies and the International Committee of the   Red Cross, on Sunday voted heavily in favor of making it harder   for asylum-seekers to gain entry to the rich Alpine state.
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TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. (CP) - Parti Quebecois Leader Bernard Landry says he will launch a campaign to win an election and a sovereignty referendum the day after leadership questions are settled at the party's June convention.
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BERLIN - Anger over Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s tough welfare and jobs reforms has resulted in a surge in support for Germany&#39;s former communists and radical right-wing parties in two key state elections with the rightist National Democratic Party (NPD
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Two pillars of Swiss nationhood are being tested Sunday &#151; citizenship and the post office.
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Asif Zardari opened his partyâs election campaign with a huge rally in a bid to sweep to power on Benazir Bhuttoâs legacy and martyrdom.
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Austrians vote Sunday in national elections that could swing the alpine nation back to the political center after more than six years of influence by the extreme right.
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The outcome of Sundayâs citizenship votes marks yet another victory for the rightwing Swiss Peopleâs Party. In an interview with swissinfo, Clive Church, a leading foreign expert on Swiss politics, looks at why the party is setting the agenda.
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Swiss voters head to the polls to decide whether the country should impose more restrictive asylum laws.
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One of France's top presidential candidates asked mayors and other elected officials on Monday to give their backing to an extreme right-wing politician to ensure he has enough endorsements to run in the spring ...Comment
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Austrians get ready to head for the polls in a parliamentary vote that could force a new coalition government.
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French Socialists are to campaign for the EU constitution - a move that should avert a ânonâ in a national referendum set for 2005.
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More than a decade after the former Yugoslavia was torn apart by war, nationalists have performed well in elections in Bosnia, Slovenia and Serbia, highlighting the ethnic divisions of all three nations.
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GENEVA - Voters in Switzerland - where one in five residents is foreign-born - rejected liberalizing tough rules on granting citizenship Sunday.    Reflecting the divide between French-speaking areas and the more conservative German region, two government-backed citizenship proposals failed to win support in a majority of the 26 cantons, official results showed by early afternoon...
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FranÃ§ois Bayrou is gaining ground in a presidential campaign dominated by a nurturing Socialist and a crime-busting conservative.
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SWITZERLAND HAS managed to stage what it thinks is the first legally binding internet vote in a national referendum. More than 2720 people in four Geneva suburbs, about one in five voters in the region who