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Â European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For example, in the United Kingdom one poll suggested that around 50% of the population are indifferent to the European Union and 20% voted for parties that wanted to withdraw from the EU in the 2004 EU elections.
A Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (TCE), commonly referred to as the European Constitution, is an international treaty intended to create a constitution for the European Union.
The European Communities are one of the three pillars of the European Union, being both the most important pillar and the only one to operate primarily through supranational institutions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union (5548 words)

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Â Union citizens' right to vote in European election 1999

According to the law on elections to the European Parliament, all those citizens of the other Member States of the European Community (Union citizens) are entitled to vote who have a place of residence, or usually stay, in the Federal Republic of Germany and who, on the election day,
In addition to casting their vote in the election to the European Parliament, Union citizens may be nominated as candidates for the 1999 European elections in the Federal Republic of Germany by political parties or other political organisations.
As reported by the Federal Returning Officer, citizens of other European Community Member States (Union citizens) living in the Federal Republic of Germany are also entitled to caste their vote in the election to the European Parliament on 13 June 1999, as it was the case for the previous European election in 1994.

http://www.destatis.de/presse/englisch/pm1999/p0020122.htm (5548 words)

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Â European Union Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography

The Community is an actual body, including the European institutions (European Parliament, Council of the European Union, European Commission), whilst the European Union is a less tangible grouping of institutions and agreements.
The European Court of Justice (incorporating the Court of First Instance) (15 judges)
European Free Trade Association) are parties to the EEA-treaty (the European Economic Area), which means that these countries are participants in the single market.

http://www.localcolorart.com/search/encyclopedia/European_Union/ (5548 words)

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Â Europawahl 2004 - Pressemitteilungen

As reported by the Federal Returning Officer, the Treaty on European Union provides that any Union citizen residing in a Member State whose citizenship he/she does not have, may exercise in the Member State he/she lives in his/her right to vote or to stand for election in the elections to the European Parliament.
Upon enquiries made by the Federal Returning Officer with the Land Returning Officers, voter participation in today’s elections of the Members of the European Parliament in Germany emerges to be rather low – as was also the case in the 1999 European elections.
As reported by the Federal Returning Officer, first results are available from the representative electoral statistics regarding the European elections 2004 held on 13 June 2004.

http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/wahlen/europawahl2004/informationen/pressemitteilungen/pressemeldungen_e.htm (5548 words)

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Â AP Wire 06/12/2004 European Elections Continue in Italy

The voting is to chose members of the 732-delegate European Parliament, but the results are often read as a test of voters sentiment about their national governments as much as about the union.
Both parties were wary about handing too much power to the European Union, a concern among many Czechs who fear the country gave up its cherished sovereignty and identity when it joined.
"In these elections, one thinks more about domestic politics than about Europe," Luciano Filippo Bracci, a 56-year-old lawyer, said after voting in downtown Rome.

http://www.broward.com/mld/kansascity/news/special_packages/recall/8902974.htm (5548 words)

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Â European Parliament Elections, Germany, 1999

In the case of the Greens, union membership is not a great factor in terms of this election.
In the European elections, the differences among different occupational groups were not as clear and succinct as they often have been in the past.
European elections was 42.5%, a downturn of 14.8 percentage points since the previous election.

http://www.aicgs.org/wahlen/euparliament1999.shtml (5548 words)

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Â European Parliament Elections 2003

Due to the enlargement of the European Union, the number of seats allocated to member states have been cut and the UK government has decide to reduce the number of seats in Scotland from eight to seven.
The fifth direct elections in 1999 were held by proportional representation with the d'Hondt system being used to determine the placing.
She was fourth on Labour's list for the 1999 elections, but after a disasterous showing in the 1998 North east Scotland by-election, Kathleen Walker-Shaw resigned her third place on Labour's list and Stihler was elected as the eight list MEP in 1999..

http://www.alba.org.uk/euro04/euro04cand.html (5548 words)

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Â Vita.html

Voting in the European Elections of 1994" with Cees van der Eijk and Wouter van der Brug, in Hermann Schmitt and Jacques Thomasson (eds) Political Representation and Legitimacy in the European Union (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 161-185.
Founder of the European Union Politics Group (EUPG) of the American Political Science Association in 1994, and convener of its meetings until its merger with the European Politics and Society Section of the APSA in 2001.
Member of the Section on Elections, Voting and Public Opinion of the American Political Science Association.

http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mfrankli/Vita.html (5548 words)

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Â Voting in the European elections

While the Parliament's responsibilities have been increasing, voter turnout in European elections has been in steady decline.
The 2004 elections will be the sixth elections since the European Parliament was first elected by universal suffrage in 1979.
The European Parliament exerts significant influence over the laws and regulations that are passed in each member state of the European Union.

http://futurum2004.eun.org/ww/en/pub/futurum2004/news/enlargement_news/eu_elections.htm (5548 words)

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Â Oikeusministeriö - Justitieministeriet

In addition, citizens of other Member States of the European Union who have reached the age of 18 and whose domicile is in Finland are entitled to vote in the European elections in Finland, provided that they have registered with the voting register in Finland.
The European Parliamentary elections 2004 will be held in the Member States on 10-13 June 2004.
Information about the European Elections can be found on the elections website of the Ministry of Justice; www.vaalit.fi.

http://www.om.fi/25711.htm (5548 words)

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Â CIA - The World Factbook -- European Union

In November 2004, the European Union heads of government signed a "Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe" that offers possibilities - with some limits - for increased defense and security cooperation.
The evolution of the European Union (EU) from a regional economic agreement among six neighboring states in 1951 to today's supranational organization of 25 countries across the European continent stands as an unprecedented phenomenon in the annals of history.
Domestically, the European Union attempts to lower trade barriers, adopt a common currency, and move toward convergence of living standards.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ee.html (1970 words)

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Â EES99

It is doing so by means of linked studies of party manifestos, the media, the voters and the elected representatives across all countries of the European Union.
A study of the media in six EU countries at the time of the 1999 elections to the European Parliament was funded by the Dutch NWO.
This project is in the process of studying the dynamics of issue evolution and the framing of political agendas at the time of the 1999 elections to the European Parliament.

http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mfrankli/EES99.html (1970 words)

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Â European Elections

Germany sends 99 members, who were elected in the fifth direct election to the European Parliament on 13 June 1999.
It exercises the powers that it is entitled to pursuant to the Treaty of 25 March 1957 setting up the European Community (EC) (Federal Law Gazette 1, II, pp.
The representatives of the peoples of the Community states in the European Parliament are elected for a period of five years in a general direct election.

http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/europa_e.htm (1970 words)

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Â European elections 2004

In the European elections on 13 June 2004, each voter has one vote.
From 31 December 2004 vivisection will be prohibited in the European Union, with only a few exceptions of limited duration.
Anyone who doesn't vote leaves it up to others to assert their opinions and weakens the EP's democratic clout.

http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/www/en/eu_politik/aktuelles/europawahl/index_html (1970 words)

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Â BBC NEWS Europe Q&A: European elections

Turnout fell below 50% in the 1999 European election, and fell again in 2004, but still has not reached the level of US mid-term elections (usually below 40%).
The first European election since the enlargement of the European Union to 25 states took place on 10-13 June.
A European election never has the power to change a government, unlike a national election, though the outcome in 2004 may have helped to ensure that the new president of the commission was from the centre-right (Portugal's Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, who will take office later this year).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3715399.stm (1970 words)

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Â CIA - The World Factbook -- European Union

In November 2004, the European Union heads of government signed a "Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe" that offers possibilities - with some limits - for increased defense and security cooperation.
The evolution of the European Union (EU) from a regional economic agreement among six neighboring states in 1951 to today's supranational organization of 25 countries across the European continent stands as an unprecedented phenomenon in the annals of history.
Members of the European Parliament were initially selected by national parliaments, but in 1979 the first direct elections were undertaken and they have been held every five years since.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ee.html (2034 words)

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Â CH-EU - European Union - Enlargement of the European Union

The timetable for enlargement was finalised at the Gothenburg European Council of June 2001: the Union would complete the accession negotiations with the duly prepared candidate countries by the end of 2002, thus enabling them to take part in the 2004 European Parliament elections.
It submitted a draft EU constitution to the Thessaloniki European Council of June 2003; this will now be discussed by EU heads of state and government at an intergovernmental conference in Rome beginning in October 2003 and ending before the next European Parliament elections on 15 June 2004.
In December 2000 the Nice European Council approved the institutional reforms, including the allocation of seats and votes on the Council, the Commission and the Parliament in a 27-member Union.

http://www.europa.admin.ch/eu/info_mat/dossiers/e/erweiterung.htm (1533 words)

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Â History of The European Union Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ StardustMemories.com

The first direct elections for the European Parliament were held in 1979, after a decision to that effect was first adopted in 1976 and ratified in 1978.
On May 17, 2005 a joint session of the Romanian Senate and Chamber of Deputies ratified the Treaty of Accession with the European Union.
Originally they shared the Court of Justice and Parliament in common, having separate Councils and Commissions (called the High Authority in the case of the ECSC); but the Merger Treaty of July 1967 merged their Councils and Commissions into a single Council and Commission.

http://www.stardustmemories.com/encyclopedia/History_of_the_European_Union (4279 words)

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Â The World of Parliaments - Issue N°12

The Elections Laws (Amendment) Act, 2003 amended the Representation of the People Act, 1951 in March 2001, with a view to making available the option of voting by proxy to the members of the Armed Forces of the Union and members of the forces to which the provisions of the Army Act, 195 extend.
This Act is retrospective to 14 August 2002 (the date of the return of the writ of members elected to the current Parliament) but expires with the close of polling day for the next general election of MPs.
In order to avoid concurrent mandates, the new provisions of these texts henceforth stipulate that a senator or a deputy who is appointed to a non-remunerated post or who is elected mayor, deputy mayor, president or vice-president of a departmental council shall automatically be replaced by his or her substitute.

http://www.ipu.org/news-e/12-9.htm (1373 words)

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Â European Union Urges Iraq Not to Reinstate Death Penalty

"The European Union reconfirms its opposition to the death penalty in all cases," the ministers said in a draft statement to Iraq Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari.
European Union foreign ministers have urged Iraq's interim government not to reinstate capital punishment as it continues to develop the nation's justice system.
"The European Union reconfirms its opposition to the death penalty in all cases," the ministers said in a draft statement to Iraq Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=1070&scid=64 (1373 words)

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Â 1999 Outcome of the Elections for European Parliament

Elections for the European Parliament are held in all the member countries of the European Union.
On the 13th of June, 1999, the RAINBOW Party (representing the Macedonian minority in Greece) participated in the European Elections.
In the previous elections for the European Parliament the RAINBOW party officially received 7300 votes.

http://www.florina.org/html/1999/1999_eu_elections.html (1373 words)

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Â Human Rights Watch: Europe and Central Asia : Azerbaijan

Elections in the former Soviet Union are stolen all the time, but governments get away with it by stifling democratic institutions.
AzerbaijanÂ’s government should act now to stop the deterioration of press freedom underway since the October presidential elections, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released today.
Ilham Aliev, the son of the outgoing leader, was elected president in a vote that international and local observers said was marred by widespread fraud.

http://www.hrw.org/europe/azerbaijan.php (1159 words)

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Â France looks in the mirror - The Washington Times: World Briefings - July 11, 2004

Only 43 percent of French voters took part in the June elections to the European Parliament.
Chirac's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), his main power base, suffered a major defeat in the March regional elections, sending the government a troubling signal.
Efforts to enhance European unity, demonstrated by this year's expansion of the European Union from 15 to 25 members and the drafting of a constitution that has yet to be ratified, got relatively little attention in France.

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20040710-102150-6313r.htm (1159 words)

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Â Armed Forces Special Powers Act: A study in National Security tyranny (From the SAHRDC Resource Centre)

Since the Delhi High Court found the AFSPA to be constitutional in the case of Indrajit Barua and the Gauhati High court found this decision to be binding in People's Union for Democratic Rights, the only judicial way to repeal the act is for the Supreme Court to declare the AFSPA unconstitutional.
The 1950 act was a revision of the 1911 Indian Army Act.
All personnel acting in a law enforcement capacity should be trained according to the UN Code of Conduct for law enforcement personnel.

http://www.hrdc.net/sahrdc/resources/armed_forces.htm (11243 words)

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Â WEU [Definition]

He was a physicist who became an important Spanish politician, and then served as NATO Secretary General in 1995 for 4 years before becoming Secretary General of both the Council of the European Union, and of the Western European Union....
The European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC), both established to function under the EU's CFSP pillar, are replacements to the Western European Union Institute for Security Studies and the Western Union Satellite Centre which had been established to function in connection to the WEU.
The Union was established under that name by the Treaty on European Union (commonly known as the Maastricht Treaty) in 1992.

http://www.wikimirror.com/WEU (11243 words)

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Â European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For example, in the United Kingdom one poll suggested that around 50% of the population are indifferent to the European Union and 20% voted for parties that wanted to withdraw from the EU in the 2004 EU elections.
A Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (TCE), commonly referred to as the European Constitution, is an international treaty intended to create a constitution for the European Union.
The European Communities are one of the three pillars of the European Union, being both the most important pillar and the only one to operate primarily through supranational institutions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union (6021 words)

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Â European Parliament Elections 2004 Europe Deutsche Welle

Fewer than half of voters in the EU actually cast ballots in European elections.
Voters in the European Union will go to the polls in mid-June to decide who will represent them in the European Parliament.
Elections for the European Parliament started Thursday as Dutch and British voters headed to the polls.

http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1433_A_1222422_1_A,00.html (6021 words)

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Â Trades Union Congress - International

Read about the TUC campaign to get more union members voting in the upcoming European elections.
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has called on trade unionists around Europe to take action on 2-3 April to make the case for the European social model, and as well as regional events, the TUC is holding a conference in London from on Friday, 2 April.
Downloadable TUC advertisements and flyers to support the TUC's 2004 European Election campaign to get more union members to vote.

http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/index.cfm?mins=323 (6021 words)

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Â natPress

First, insofar as the political parties are concerned, the link between the elector and candidate has been broken through the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999 which imposes on the British electorate a closed list system.
Accordingly, I urge all voters who wish to participate in the European Elections to oppose those who advocate scrapping the Pound and adopting the Euro.
The last, underscoring the rest, was an Act which, for the purposes of June's elections to the European Parliament, divies the UK into 12 giant new 'regional constituencies', corresponding exactly to the 12 regions which are now to have their own assemblies.

http://freespace.virgin.net/c.mowbray/natPress.htm (10959 words)

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Â Biographies - The history of the European Union and European Citizenship

In 1949 he became chairman of the party in West Germany; and in the first general elections under the new regime, his party and its ally, the Christian Social Union (CSU), together won 139 of the 402 seats in the Bundestag (Federal Parliament).
However, it marked the entrance of the European Parliament onto the European scene as a new political actor in the process of democratising the Community's institutions.
Mitterrand was thus a leading proponent of the Treaty on European Union (1991), which provided for a centralised European banking system, a common currency, and a unified foreign policy.

http://www.historiasiglo20.org/europe/biografias.htm (3428 words)