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Egypt’s Monster in the MakingBRUSSELS – On December 15, Egypt’s draft constitution is due to be put to a referendum.
The military has barricaded the presidential palace and, until the results of the referendum are announced, they are under orders to protect Egypt’s state institutions.
Have the Dutch now done it again, holding back the wave of populist politics that seemed to be threatening Europe after last year’s Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s victory in the United States?
Brexit’s Blow To GlobalizationCAMBRIDGE – The United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum has shaken equity and financial markets around the world.
Consequently, in his inauguration speech on May 20, Chen promised to amend the constitution via the current mechanism, rather than adopting an entirely new constitution via referendum.
BERLIN – At stake in the United Kingdom’s upcoming referendum on whether to remain a member of the European Union is the nature of the EU itself.
But in Norway, voters rejected EU membership in a referendum and still do.
A new constitution, proposed by the king and adopted in a referendum in July 2011, has already generated robust political competition.
They relentlessly but unsuccessfully pressured Montenegro’s leaders to remain in a dysfunctional union with Serbia, condoned Kostunica’s dubious 2006 referendum on a new constitution enshrining Kosovo as a part of Serbia, and weakened demands for Serbia’s cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague.
But when Scotland held its failed independence referendum in 2014, those who voted in favor had to accept that the democratic will of Scots at the time was to remain a part of the United Kingdom.
Likewise, those who voted “Remain” in the United Kingdom’s 2016 Brexit referendum had to accept the decision of the majority to leave the EU.
Basic Income RevisitedLONDON – Britain isn’t the only country holding a referendum this month.
A poster put up during the Swiss referendum campaign asked, “What would you do if your income were taken care of?”
And that narrow outlook has been reinforced by events such as Trump’s election and the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum.
On June 23, in a decision of momentous importance for all of Europe, UK voters will decide in a referendum whether to exit the EU.
The coalition he led boldly took up Pinochet’s challenge to participate in a 1988 referendum on extending his rule, won the vote against all odds, and in 1990 removed the dictator from office.
A wonderful example is the referendum promoted by Emma Bonino, Italy's star political renegade.
Among many issues, the referendum she put forward proposes three measures: end automatic tax withholding; end judicial power to reinstate dismissed workers; end automatic withholding of union dues from pay checks.
The referendum's advocates believe that making it much harder for the state to tax will force governments to retrench on the currently untouchable spending front.
If one believes that less overweening unions and a smaller state are the first steps toward a better supply side in Europe, this referendum item deserves praise.
Yet, over the next few years Italy ultimately cannot avoid the road laid out by the referendum.
In the meantime, even if the referendum is held and eventually lost under the combined onslaught of bureaucrats, politicians and union bosses, the modernization revolution is alive.
In the wake of June’s Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom and Donald Trump’s triumph earlier this month in the United States’ presidential election, France, too, could fall victim to destructive populist forces, if voters choose the far-right National Front’s Marine Le Pen as their next president.
Direct Democracy Strikes AgainNEW YORK – Once again, a referendum has turned a country upside down.
More recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin organized a snap referendum in Crimea that supposedly justified his annexation of the territory.
But mendacity and deception worthy of the dictators of the 1930s was certainly on display in the United Kingdom’s “Leave” campaign, and in the opposition to a Dutch referendum in April to approve an EU-Ukraine free-trade and association agreement.
Similarly, the Brexit referendum posed a question with so many ramifications that no voter could possibly have considered them all.
The death of Slobodan Milosevic has just been followed by Montenegro’s referendum on independence.
Ireland is fortunately less worrying, but the odds that the fiscal pact will be approved in a popular referendum are becoming longer.
In fact, despite Leave’s large faction of angry white working-class voters, middle-class trade-friendly Brexiteers, together with the “Remain” camp, constitute a clear majority of everyone who voted in the June referendum.
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