Billed as the biggest free party ever held in the UK, the Love Parade attracted some of the world's top DJs, including Judge Jules, Seb Fontaine, Paul Van Dyk and Pete Tong.
It is not elated by the recovery of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), the junior partner in her coalition.
That softens opposition from the Free Democratic Party, the CDU's pro-business coalition partner.
Tony Hare (Independent) is a former Conservative councillor who has been proud to be free of party control for many years.
One was a surprise defeat for the pro-business Free Democratic Party, making it the sixth out of six state elections where it has lost heavily.
In Germany's election in September, the issue poses the greatest threat to the Free Democratic Party, Merkel's junior coalition partner which has a pro-business platform.
Liberals are defecting in droves to the opposition Free Democratic Party.
The Social Democratic foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, will go, but his successor, almost certainly Guido Westerwelle of the Free Democratic Party, has not yet arrived.
Frank Schaeffler, a German member of parliament in the Free Democratic Party, has previously advocated the sale of uninhabited Greek islands to fund creditor repayments.
The liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), the junior partner in her coalition government, is against a rescue, as are many politicians from her own Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
One answer, Mrs Lagarde argues, would be to cut taxes, an idea supposedly favoured by Germany's coalition government, which combines Mrs Merkel's Christian Democratic Union with the Free Democratic Party.
Support for the capitalist and enterprise-friendly Free Democrat party shrunk to 2.7% of the vote, a 7% decline from the last election that cost the party their seats in the state parliament.
In North Wales, the leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats endorsed one Winston Roddick because she said 'as an independent candidate he is free from party political pressure', and he was elected.
Christa Markwalder, a lawmaker from the pro-business Free Democratic Party, said she didn't think passage of the initiative would lead to an exodus of companies from Switzerland but would attract attention from other countries studying corporate-governance policies.
Her coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party, has lost domestic support, so she will need to convince the more liberal members of the leading parties, particularly the Green Party and the Social Democrats, that the plan for a more powerful European Financial Stability Facility is the right choice for Germany.
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Nobody could mistake the party of the free market and deregulation with the party of compulsory union recognition, the social chapter and the minimum wage.
But he knew less well, when the time came, how to set himself and his party free of it.
Whoever wins will lack a majority in Congress, in which the grip of the two traditional parties has been challenged not just by Mr Solis (who will hold the balance of power) but also by a free-market party (which captured six of the 57 seats).
As the race progressed superdelegates, made up of prominent party members who are free to vote their preference at the party convention, became the most important votes in the nomination process.
Despite running a pork-free election campaign (while his rival Congress Party was promising voters free electricity), Naidu won by a landslide.
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The top doorman and his nominating tenants get a free happy-hour party at a bar.
He showed that by naming a cabinet full of competent technocrats, though it is not wholly free of cronies and party hacks.
The Republican Party is free to spend its money through Election Day.
Article 47 of Qatar's constitution guarantees freedom of expression and opinion "in accordance with the conditions and circumstances set forth in the law", and the country has pledged to respect the right of free expression as a party to the Arab Charter on Human Rights.
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Or they could join forces with Germany's small liberal party, the Free Democrats.
This was probably the first sign that a broader trend was underway, beyond the Google-triggered free-lunch-buffet party in Silicon Valley.
Since 1992, successive governments from the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance party have pursued free-market reforms, privatising much of the economy.
Even the Labor Party opposition backs free trade and looks to Britain's Tony Blair for inspiration, not to America's protectionist Democrats.
Plainly, Mr Bondevik's Christian People's Party does not get on with its partners, the rural Centre Party and the free-market Liberals.
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