On the parliamentary elections in 2009 the newly established personalistic party of Boyko Borisov-Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria ( GERB ) won the elections, securing 116 seats out of 240, which enabled it to form a cabinet alone.

On 1 December 2009, Standard and Poors upgraded Bulgaria's investment outlook from " negative " to " stable ," which made Bulgaria the only country in the European Union to receive positive upgrade that year.

This goal was rapidly met with great success, as the nation joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004, and held the Presidency of the European Union during the first half of 2009.

A third space mission, the ESA ( European Space Agency ) Planck Surveyor, launched in May, 2009 and is currently performing an even more detailed investigation.

* 2009 – The Treaty of Lisbon, which amends the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, which together comprise the constitutional basis of European Union, comes into effect.

On January 6, 2009, Deicide posted a blog on their official Myspace page saying they had signed a worldwide record deal with Century Media, with Ralph Santolla returning to the band for a European tour.

The Parliament is currently composed of 754 Members of the European Parliament, who represent the second largest democratic electorate in the world ( after the Parliament of India ) and the largest trans-national democratic electorate in the world ( 375 million eligible voters in 2009 ).

Turnout in 2009 stood at 43 % of all European voters, ranging from 90 % in Luxembourg and Belgium ( where compulsory voting is used ) to 20 % in Slovakia.

Meanwhile the parties in the ED subgroup were growing restless and finally left following the 2009 elections, when the Czech Civic Democratic Party and United Kingdom Conservatives formed their own European Conservatives and Reformists group on 22 June 2009, abolishing the ED subgroup from that date.

* Catherine Cathiard and David Zeitoun, group legal director, Unibail-Rodamco, " The European Company: advantages and opportunities ", DECIDEURS Stratégie Finance Droit n ° 108, sept. 2009 ( available in French and English, see External links hereunder ).

* Catherine Cathiard and Frédéric Lemos, managing director of Foncière LFPI, " First cross-border transfers of seat of European Companies in France: the experience of Foncière LFPI ", JCP E n ° 1, January 2009 ( available in French ).

* " The European Company: attractiveness and opportunities in times of crisis " blog of Maître Catherine Cathiard, Avocat ( Free translation of the article " La société européenne: intérêts et opportunités en temps de crise " Catherine Cathiard, Avocat et David Zeitoun, directeur juridique groupe, Unibail-Rodamco, DECIDEURS Stratégie Finance Droit n ° 108, sept. 2009 )

Many French people are uninterested in such matters: only 40 % of the French electorate voted in the 2009 European Parliament elections.

In the 2009 European Parliament elections, Debout la République obtained 1. 77 % of the national vote, and Libertas 4. 8 %.

They include the Parti de Gauche and the French Communist Party, which formed the Front de Gauche for the 2009 European Parliament elections and obtained 6. 3 % of the votes.

It received 16. 5 % of the vote at the 2009 European Parliament elections, putting it in second place ahead of the then governing Labour Party.

Two BNP candidates, Andrew Brons and Nick Griffin, were elected to the European Parliament in 2009.

), however, they are currently banned by the FIE, following a 2009 incident in which a visor was pierced during the European Junior Championship competition.

In May 2009, FAO and the European Union signed an initial aid package worth € 125 million to support small farmers in countries hit hard by rising food prices.

At 2009 European Parliament election held on the same day as the Local elections, which saw a reduction in the number seats from 13 to 12 for Ireland, the party won four seats, retaining the largest number of seats of an Irish party in the European Parliament.

The EU's budget ( which is around 116. 4 billion euro ) is subject to a form of the ordinary legislative procedure with a single reading giving Parliament power over the entire budget ( prior to 2009, its influence was limited to certain areas ) on an equal footing to the Council.

Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.

In the 2009 elections however, PASOK became the majority party in the Parliament and George Papandreou became Prime Minister of Greece.

In January 2009, a court in Amsterdam ordered the prosecution of Geert Wilders, a Dutch Member of Parliament, for breaching articles 137c and 137d.

" Mebyon Kernow is a member of the European Free Alliance and although it did not contest European Parliament elections in 2004 or 1999, it has six candidates for the 2009 Euro elections.

He is married to Glenys Kinnock, Britain's Minister for Africa and the United Nations from 2009 to 2010, and a Labour Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) from 1994 to 2009.

In the UK, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers put forward a slate of candidates in the 2009 European Parliament elections under the banner of No to EU – Yes to Democracy, a broad left-wing alter-globalisation coalition involving socialist groups such as the Socialist Party, aiming to offer an alternative to the " anti-foreigner " and pro-business policies of the UK Independence Party.

On June 16, 2009, the Parliament of Sweden passed a law dropping the peace time draft.

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Other major political parties represented in Parliament include the Inkatha Freedom Party, which mainly represents Zulu voters, with 4. 55 %; and the Congress of the People with 7. 42 % in the 2009 election.

In August 2009 as part of its third legislative term in the Scottish Parliament, the Government proposes to debate the Scottish referendum bill 2010, which would set out a planned referendum for 30th November 2010 on the issue of Scottish independence.

No third parties won any seats in the Parliament in Malta's most recent 2009 election, for example.

Although most South African parties announced their candidate list for provincial premierships in the 2009 election, the ANC did not.

* 2009 – Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.

After the victory of the PdL in the 2008 general election, AN was merged into the PdL in early 2009.

The most recent election, the German federal election, 2009, was held on September 27, 2009.

The inquiry was expected to report in late 2009 but was delayed until after the general election on 6 May 2010.

* Chilean presidential election, 2009

Even after the 2009 general election, the CDU / CSU emerged as the largest party in Germany, yet both lost votes predominantly to the FDP.

The CSU received only 42. 5 % of the vote in Bavaria in the 2009 election, which constitutes its weakest showing in the party's history.

Compared to only three parties allowed to exist in the New Order era, a total of 48 political parties participated in the 1999 election, a total of 24 parties in the 2004 election, and 38 parties in the 2009 election.

In the 2009 provincial election the NDP formed a majority government, the first in the region.

* 2009 – Iranian election protests: On the Day of Ashura in Tehran, government security forces fire upon demonstrators.

Relations between the United Kingdom and Ecuador were traditionally regarded as " low-key but cordial ", especially before the election of Rafael Correa ; the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visited the country in 2009, as part of a tour celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin.

Founded in June 2009 with Raymond's help, the hacktivist website NedaNet intended to influence the domestic opposition to the Iranian government in the event of the 2009 Iranian election protests.

In the last general election, which took place on 5 November 2009, only non-partisans were elected as there are no active political parties in the Falkland Islands.

However, after reaching its best ever election result in 2009, the FDP's support has since collapsed.

The FDP retained their seats in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, which was held six months after the federal election, but out of the seven state elections that have been held since 2009, the FDP have lost all their seats in five of them due to failing to cross the 5 % threshold.

In November 2008, the SPD re-elected Franz Müntefering as its chairman and made Frank-Walter Steinmeier its leading candidate for the federal election in September 2009.