social democrats

Sigmar Gabriel, leader of the opposition Social Democrats, said banks and the financial markets had worked "massively against the common good"-because politicians let them. ( He was in government until October 2009.) Attac Deutschland, a longer-standing anti-globalisation group, joined up with Occupy Frankfurt.

在野党社会民主党党首Sigmar Gabriel（2009年10月份之前他一直在政府就职）认为银行和金融市场“极力破坏公共利益”，因为是受政客们所使。长期的，全球化组织Attac Deutschland参加了“占领法兰克福”运动。

The government was still in effect a ragbag of Social Democrats and Liberals.

该政府实际上仍是一个由社会民主党和自由党混合组成的大杂烩。

The opposition parties, the Social Democrats and greens, actually support spreading the debt of Club Med across Europe with Germany as "europayer".

社民党和绿党这两个反对党实际上支持整个欧洲共同分担地中海国家的债务德国是“出资国”。

The Social Democrats could still carry out their threat to leave the government.

社会民主党人仍有可能将其退出政府的威胁付诸实施。

Like it or not, the current political manoeuvres enhance the probability that Ms Merkel can govern without old-style Social Democrats after 2009 and push through at least some new labour market and entitlement reforms afterwards.

不管你喜欢与否，目前的政治行动增加了这种可能性：默克尔可以在2009年以后不要老派社民党的辅佐而独揽大权，并在此后推行至少一部分新的劳动力市场和福利改革。

It also emerged that the Social Democrats might form a government in Hesse that relies on Left Party support, something they had previously promised not to do.

借助左翼党（先前曾拒绝支持）的支持，社民党可能在黑森州组建新政府。

Little over a year ago, things looked very rosy for the Social Democrats...

一年多以前，社会民主党人的形势看起来一片大好。

The Social Democrats say they are ready after all to begin talks on joining a coalition government.

社会民主党人竟然说他们准备开始谈判加入联合政府了。

I do not understand why Sigmar Gabriel, leader of Germany's Social Democrats and economics minister, is such an ardent advocate of TTIP.

我不明白德国社民党（SPD）主席、经济部长西格马尔•加布里尔（Sigmar Gabriel）为何如此热情地支持TTIP。

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt was elected first female prime minister of Denmark in 2011, breaking the grip of center-right parties on this Scandinavian nation and bringing the social democrats back into the government after a decade of opposition.

赫勒•托宁•施密特在2011年丹麦议会选举中胜出，成为该国有史以来第一位女首相，击败了执政10年的中右翼政党集团，带领社会民主党重返内阁。

In a bid to gain support for her plan from opposition Greens and Social Democrats, Ms Merkel agreed to restart the search for a nuclear waste storage facility, currently planned for Gorleben in central Germany.

为赢得反对党绿党和社民党（SPD）支持自己的计划，默克尔同意重启一个核废料储存设施的选址过程，该设施目前计划设在德国中部的戈莱本（Gorleben）。

By rights the Social Democrats ought to be the favourites in the election. But nothing looks less certain

社会民主党按理应该最有希望赢得这次选举，但一切从未如此不确定过。

One is a string of scandals, including several cases of nepotism, that have made the Social Democrats seem a party that has grown arrogant and too accustomed to the perks of government.

其一是一连串的丑闻，包括多宗裙带案件，这些让社民党看起来变得傲慢自大，太过于习惯拿取政府津贴。

Little over a year ago, things looked very rosy for the Social Democrats

一年多以前，社会民主党人的形势看起来一片大好。

They didn't rule out coalition with the Social Democrats.

他们不排除与社会民主党人结盟的可能性。

Yet the culture of, to say nothing of the union influence on, the Social Democrats is against competition and private provision of public services.

不过，社民党的文化则是反对竞争和私人提供公共服务，更不必说工会的影响。

The Social Democrats are now in alliance with the Greens.

社会民主党现在与绿党结成联盟。