18 Artikel
There was always the strong belief that UK voters would vote to remain in the EU and without success, every effort was made by EU's leaders, institutions and bureaucrats as well as by the pro-EU polit...
Since Norway rejected EU membership in a 1994 referendum, eurosceptic sentiment has been kept strong with a majority against joining for more than fifteen years. There is a growing concern about Norwa...
by Michael James Macpherson England has been called the "mother of parliaments" (Bright) but progress in democracy since the nineteenth century has been slow. The late 19th century's wave of reform ...
Independence or Empire? Ireland and the Nice Treaty
The Peace & Neutrality Alliance was established to advocate an Independent Irish foreign policy, maintain Irish Neutrality and promote a Transformed United Nations and the OSCE as the organisations th...
Despite the rosy rethoric around `the Europe of the citizens`, the reality of European unification is that the EU promotes a sweeping transformation of societies along neoliberal lines, through ` free...
"Why Switzerland should not join the EU" - English Versions of the Articles in the Swiss Left Wing Weekly WoZ
The most important issue in British politics at the moment is the Euro. Well, that is if you ask Trade Unions Against the Single Currency (TASC)which I am working for. We have been promised a referend...
Arjen Nijeboer* Although The Netherlands is one of the three countries worldwide where never a national referendum has been held, the debate on direct democracy is more than a century old. In 1994 th...
by Mercedes Echerer, Austria, Per Gahrton, Sweden, Caroline Lucas, England, Patricia McKenna, Ireland, Ilka Schröder, Germany, Matti Wuori, Finland, Members of the Greens/EFA Group of the European Pa...
by Ulla Klötzer, Chair of Alternative to EU – Finland; Board member of the European Anti-Maastricht Alliance TEAM; Activist within the movement Women for Peace - Finland One huge step in the developm...
The History of Direct Democracy in Switzerland, by Kris W. Kobach, law professor at the University of Missouri (Kansas City) School of Law. (pdf-document)
3. [The Parliament of the European Union] Affirms, furthermore, that the purpose of a common defence policy is to protect the European Union's interests in all areas, including security of essential s...
The Forum for direct democracy is the centre-left movement in Switzerland which opposes the Swiss EU-membership for democratical, social and ecological reasons. We oppose the building of a European su...
Democracy and Internationalisation
by Paul Ruppen, Chairman of the "Forum for direct democracy" In defence of political democracy Democracy is a specific organisation of political decision processes. It can be considered as a fact th...
By Glenn Forster, Chairman, Youth Against the EU, UK Those in favour of the EU constantly suggest that young people are in favour of the EU. The EU is presented as a young, idealistic idea, and as a ...
The Economist Survey of 21.12.96 about "Direct Democracy (and Switzerland)"