Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2015

political conference in Linz

Hi erverybody!

The other day my class and I went to a political conference in Linz.

I thought you might be interested, too because it was really interesting to listen to our politicians live.

Basically what it says is that at this conference many important votings were held and discussed.

For example:

·         If a ticket which you can use to move through Austria all time a year by bus train or another vehicle should introduced.

·         And that other countries in the EU should host more immigrants or at least the same number of immigrants like Austria hosts.

And in the end our class had the possibility to ask questions and discuss with some politicians.

It was a really interesting and informative excursion.
I hope we would do such excursions again in the near future.

Regards,

Jakob

Freitag, 15. Mai 2015

United Kingdom general election of 2015

Hi everybody!

I have heard about the election of GB which was held on 7 May 2015. So I read an article in the online edition of BBC News which talks about the election of UK.
The official result is:

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Basically what it says is that the Conservatives win the election with 36.9 % and receive 331 seats in the House of Commons, so a majority government will be formed. A party need to win one more than half to form a majority government. Then the second one is the Labour party with 30.4 %, the third one is the UK Independence Party with 12.6 %. The Liberal Democrats reached 7.9%, the Scottish National Party reached 4.7 and the Green Party of England and Wales 3.8%.


I will give you some information of the three main parties.



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The party was founded in 1834 and stands for free trade, private enterprise, individual liberty. David Cameron is the leader since 2005.




http://seekingthewelfare.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Labour_Party.jpgLabour Party
The Labour Party stands for social justice, strong community and strong values and reward for hard work. Since September 2010 Ed Miliband is the leader of the Labour Party.





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The UK Independence Party was founded in 1993 with the primary objective of securing the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union. Nigel Farage is the Leader.







Regards
Jakob