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Centre Democrats (Netherlands)
The Centre Democrats (, CD) was a List of political parties in the Netherlands, political party in the Netherlands. Founded in 1984 by members who split out from the Centre Party (Netherlands), Centre Party (CP), the Centre Democrats was joined one month later by the only CP Member of Parliament—Hans Janmaat. Janmaat went on to become the leader of the party, which subsequently became strongly centered on his person. The newly formed Centre Democrats represented the more moderate faction of the Centre Party, but espoused an Opposition to immigration, anti-immigration and Nationalism, nationalist ideology. Their claims of standing in the centre of the political landscape have thus been disputed by political scientists. The Centre Democrats did not gain enough votes for parliamentary representation in the 1986 Dutch general election, 1986 general election, but Janmaat won back his seat after the following 1989 Dutch general election, election in 1989. In 1994 Dutch general el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centrum Democraten Logo
(Latin for ''center'') may refer to: Places In Greenland * Nuuk Centrum, a district of Nuuk, Greenland * Centrum Lake, Greenland In the Netherlands * Amsterdam-Centrum, the inner-most borough of Amsterdam, Netherlands * Rotterdam Centrum, a borough of Rotterdam, Netherlands In Poland * Centrum, Szczecin, a neighbourhood of Szczecin, Poland * Centrum (municipal neighbourhood of Warsaw), a neighbourhood of Warsaw, Poland * Osiedle Centrum, Białystok, a district of Białystok, Poland * Centrum metro station, a metro station in Warsaw, Poland In Suriname *Centrum, Brokopondo, a resort of Brokopondo District *Centrum, Paramaribo, a resort of Paramaribo District In Sweden * Centrum, Gothenburg, a borough of Gothenburg, Sweden * Centrum, Luleå, a residential area in Luleå, Sweden * Centrum, Malmö, a city district of Malmö, Sweden * Centrum, Umeå, a residential area in Umeå, Sweden Buildings and structures * The Centrum, the former informal but regularly used name of an arena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opposition To Immigration
Opposition to immigration, also known as anti-immigration, is a political position that seeks to restrict immigration. In the modern sense, immigration refers to the entry of people from one state or territory into another state or territory in which they are not citizens. Illegal immigration occurs when people immigrate to a country without having official permission to do so. Opposition to immigration ranges from calls for various immigration reforms, to proposals to completely restrict immigration, to calls for repatriation of existing immigrants. Anti-immigration arguments National identity Whether and how national identity affects attitudes toward immigration depends heavily on the meanings associated with a particular national identity. If a national identity is defined in an exclusionary way that targets ethnic or racial groups, or if an ethnic or racial majority dominates in the political structures of a nation, then that national identity is likely to be associate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. Hungary lies within the drainage basin of the Danube, Danube River and is dominated by great lowland plains. It has a population of 9.6 million, consisting mostly of ethnic Hungarians, Hungarians (Magyars) and a significant Romani people in Hungary, Romani minority. Hungarian language, Hungarian is the Languages of Hungary, official language, and among Languages of Europe, the few in Europe outside the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Budapest is the country's capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, largest city, and the dominant cultural and economic centre. Prior to the foundation of the Hungarian state, various peoples settled in the territory of present-day Hun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dzsingisz Gabor
Jenö Dzsingisz Gabor (born 14 March 1940) is a retired Hungarian– Dutch politician and diplomat of the Christian Democratic Appeal The Christian Democratic Appeal ( , CDA) is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in the Netherlands. Formed as a federation in 1975 by the Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolutionary Party, and the Christian Historical ... (CDA). Decorations References External links *Drs. J.D. (Dzsingisz) GaborParlement & Politiek 1940 births Living people State secretaries for agriculture of the Netherlands Mayors in Overijssel Dutch MPs 1994–1998 Members of the Provincial Council of South Holland Municipal councillors in Utrecht (province) Christian Democratic Appeal politicians Catholic People's Party politicians Dutch nonprofit executives Dutch nonprofit directors Dutch lobbyists Dutch Roman Catholics Dutch people of Hungarian descent Hungarian emigrants to the Netherlands Tilburg Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Hirsch-Ballin
Ernst Maurits Henricus Hirsch Ballin (born 15 December 1950) is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist. After the election of 1989 Hirsch Ballin was appointed as Minister of Justice in the Cabinet Lubbers III, taking office on 7 November 1989. Hirsch Ballin was also appointed as Minister for Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Affairs, taking office on 14 November 1989. Hirsch Ballin served as acting Minister of the Interior from 10 January 1994 until 18 January 1994 following the death of Ien Dales. Hirsch Ballin was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives after the election of 1994, taking office on 17 May 1994. On 27 May 1994 Hirsch Ballin and Minister of the Interior Ed van Thijn resigned following the conclusions of a parliamentary inquiry report into illegal interrogation techniques used by the police. Hirsch Ballin also served again as a professor of International law at the Tilburg University from 1 July 1994 un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
States-Provincial
The provincial council (, PS), also known as the States-Provincial, is the provincial parliament and legislative assembly in each of the provinces of the Netherlands. It is elected for each province simultaneously once every four years and has the responsibility for matters of sub-national or regional importance. The number of seats in a provincial council is proportional to its population. The provincial councils originated as The Estates, Estates assemblies in the Middle Ages, hence the name 'States Provincial'. From 1813 to 1850, the nobility, noble members of the ''ridderschap'' chose one-third of the members of the provincial councils. Johan Rudolf Thorbecke's reforms and his 'Provinces Law' (''Provinciewet'') of 1850 brought this privilege to an end. The provincial council chooses the provincial executive, which is the Executive (government), executive organ of the province. Originally, the States Provincial themselves also had executive powers and chose the provincial e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biografisch Woordenboek Van Nederland
The ''Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland 1880–2000'' (BWN) is a Dutch biographical dictionary, in which short biographies of well-known and less well-known but still notable Dutch people are listed. The BWN supplements the '' Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek'' (NNBW), which was published between 1911 and 1937 in ten parts. That work only includes people who died before 1910. In 1971, historian from Leiden Leiden ( ; ; in English language, English and Archaism, archaic Dutch language, Dutch also Leyden) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Nethe ... took the initiative for a continuation. The first part of the BWN was published in 1979. The sixth and last part was published in 2009. The biographies in the BWN were written by many different authors. These biographies are available via the ''Dutch Biography Portal'' (''Het Biografisch Portaal van Nederland'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kedichem
Kedichem is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located about 7 km northeast of the city of Gorinchem, in the municipality of Vijfheerenlanden. The village was first mentioned between 1395 and 1396 as Kedinghen, and means "settlement of the people of Kedo (person)". In 1840, it was home 381 people. The Protestant Church was built in 1867, and was the replacement of a 15th century church. Kedichem was a separate municipality in the province of South Holland South Holland ( ) is a province of the Netherlands with a population of over 3.8 million as of January 2023 and a population density of about , making it the country's most populous province and one of the world's most densely populated areas. ... until 1986, when it merged with Leerdam. In the same year Kedichem became nationally known in The Netherlands when activists burned down a hotel there to prevent a joined meeting of the extreme right Centre Party and Centre Democrats parties, causing a number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 Dutch General Election
General elections were held in the Netherlands on 6 May 1998.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1396 The elections saw the purple coalition of social democrats and liberals (left and right) strengthen its majority. Both the social democratic Labour Party (PvdA) and the conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) won considerably, much at the cost of their junior coalition partner, the social liberal Democrats 66 (D66). Political observers attributed the win to the economic performance of the coalition, including the reduction of unemployment and the budget deficit, steady growth and job creation, combined with wage freezes and trimming of the welfare state, together with a policy of fiscal restraint. Inter-Parliamentary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordon Sanitaire (politics)
In politics, ''cordon sanitaire'' (; ) is the refusal of one or more political parties to cooperate with certain other political parties. Often this is because the targeted party has strategies or an ideology perceived as unacceptable or extremist. The term ''cordon sanitaire'' has been applied to refusals to cooperate with parties which are populist, extremist left or extremist right. The cordon sanitaire can be seen as a social norm. Examples by country Austria After Jörg Haider became leader of the Freedom Party of Austria in 1986, all other parties refused to cooperate with them until 2000 when the first Schüssel government was formed. This coalition government would last from 2000 to 2005, and a second coalition government would last from 2017 to 2019. Belgium Beginning in the late 1980s, the term was introduced into the discourse on parliamentary politics by Belgian commentators. At that time, the far-right Flemish nationalist Vlaams Blok party began to make s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
