A deal struck Tuesday will see high street commercial banks such as Swedbank and SEB, both Scandinavian-owned, escape a new bank tax proposed by the Social Democrats, (SDE), but by paying more dividends next year.

Source: https://news.err.ee/1609105835/isamaa-leader-slams-coalition-s-pact-with-the-major-banks

Eesti 200, the Social Democrats (SDE) and EKRE are roughly neck-and-neck.

Source: https://news.err.ee/1608880571/ratings-support-for-parties-by-riigikogu-electoral-district

FINLAND-ELECTION — Polling stations have opened in Finland, where three parties were expected to be in a tight race as Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Social Democrats fight to secure a second term running the government.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ap-weather-united-states-russia-cholera-b2312562.html

In recent polls, the Christian Democrats were leading, ahead of the Social Democrats and the Greens, with a number of other parties also expected to take a significant proportion of the vote.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/02/12/left-run-berlin-holds-court-ordered-election-re-run-due-to-errors/

It was formed in 1988 from the merger of the traditional Liberal Party with the Social Democrats, a group born in the early 1980s from the split between the reformist and moderate wings of Labour.

Source: https://www.libdemvoice.org/lets-take-a-look-at-the-lib-dems-72668.html

Just as the positions of the Social Democrats are not in perfect harmony with those of the Reform Party (defining more specific wishes and goals of Eesti 200 is more complicated still as the party has not managed to go beyond vague slogans).

Source: https://news.err.ee/1608853274/indrek-kiisler-enough-about-impending-dictatorship

Just over 64 percent of voters in the picturesque city in central Switzerland were in favor of the restriction tabled by the leftwing Social Democrats.

Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1742021/swiss-city-lucerne-votes-to-restrict-airbnb-rentals

Kallas’ party has led the current coalition government with the small conservative Fatherland party and the Social Democrats.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/03/05/ukraine-ally-kallas-fights-for-reelection-in-estonia-vote-2/

Kallas' Reform Party heads the current three-party coalition government with the small conservative Fatherland party and the Social Democrats.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kaja-kallas-ap-ukraine-estonia-moscow-b2294054.html

Members of the League of Social Democrats, one of the city's remaining pro-democracy parties, had planned to stage a small protest to express their discontent over the electoral rule changes.

Source: https://www.startribune.com/hong-kong-holds-first-council-elections-under-new-rules-that-shut-out-pro-democracy-candidates/600325707/

On August 5, Temirlan Sultanbekov – an Atambayev loyalist and head of the Social Democrats, one of the offshoots of Atambayev’s party – posted a of himself with Atambayev, Atambayev’s wife and son, and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

Source: https://thediplomat.com/2023/08/atambayev-allies-courting-diplomatic-relationships/

On the other hand, Svend Auken, a leading member of the Social Democrats, argued that тАЬthe civil partnership law is about acknowledging that homosexuals have the same right as heterosexuals to lead a life together with the same rights and obligations.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/research/how-denmark-became-the-first-country-to-allow-same-sex-unions-over-30-years-ago-8567175/

Sebastian Fiedler, the point man for criminal policy for the parliamentary group of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) in the Bundestag, considers this reaction to be "somewhat exaggerated."

Source: https://www.spiegel.de/international/putin-s-man-at-the-bnd-german-intelligence-rocked-by-russian-espionage-scandal-a-b0ba7227-9be3-4d65-be19-898fc666a612

Social Democrats leader Lauri Läänemets said that budget rules are not dogma.

Source: https://news.err.ee/1609099931/search-for-cuts-means-coalition-may-ease-self-imposed-state-budget-rules

Some polling has suggested the Finns Party could win up to 49 seats, ahead of Kokoomus and the Social Democrats, tied in second place.

Source: https://www.euronews.com/2023/03/27/everything-you-need-to-know-about-finlands-general-election

The biggest opposition party in the current parliament, the center-left Social Democrats, has called for at least one ATM in every municipality and accused Nehammer of “pure populism.”

Source: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/business-news/2023/08/austrian-leader-proposes-enshrining-the-use-of-cash-in-his-countrys-constitution/

The other, tabled by the Social Democrats, would limit health insurance premiums to 10% of income.

Source: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/what-lies-ahead--the-swiss-political-landscape-for-2024/49075414?utm_campaign=swi-rss&utm_source=multiple&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=o

The populist Alternative for Germany party has overtaken the left-wing Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Sholz in popular support, as the German government continues to lose ground amid failures on energy, cost of living, and the war in Ukraine.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/06/15/german-populist-afd-party-overtakes-chancellor-scholz-social-democrats-in-support/

The protest came ahead of a vote on a motion proposed by the Social Democrats calling for a range of economic and diplomatic sanctions against Israel.

Source: https://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/national/23926839.protesters-call-expulsion-israeli-ambassador-dublin/?ref=rss

The Reform Party, Social Democrats, Center and Eesti 200 all want the State Forest Management Center (RMK) to play a larger role in forest conservation.

Source: https://news.err.ee/1608903344/analysis-parties-green-visions-in-electoral-programs