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	European Parliament election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections to the European Parliament were held from June 10, 2004 to June 13, 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union, using varying election days according to local custom.
		A European Union-wide political party, the European Greens, was established in Rome on 21 February 2004 to contest this election.
		The elections coincided with legislative elections in Luxembourg and presidential elections in Lithuania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Parliament_Election_2004 (795 words)

	European Parliament election, 2004 (Estonia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections to the European Parliament were held in Estonia on June 13, 2004.
		The voter turnout in Estonia was one of the lowest of all member countries at only 26.8%.
		A similar trend was visible in most of the new member states that joined the EU in 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Parliament_election,_2004_(Estonia) (139 words)

	Social Democratic Party (Estonia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a member of the Party of European Socialists since 16 May 2003 and a member of the Socialist International since November 1990.
		It was the most successful party in the 2004 European Parliamentary Election, obtaining 36.8% of the national vote and returning 3 MEPs.
		After last elections to the local government councils on 16th October in 2005 party in main cities are in oppositsion, but are a part of the governing coalition in Rakvere and Tapa.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sotsiaaldemokraatlik_Erakond (828 words)

	Elections in Estonia - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Estonia elects a legislature on the national level.
		Locally, Estonia elects local government councils, which vary in size, but by the election law there are minimum size of councils depending on the size of municipality.
		Estonia has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Elections_in_Estonia (192 words)

	Estonia (10/05)
		Estonia maintains an embassy in the United States at 2131 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20008 (tel: [1] (202) 588-0101; fax: [1] (202) 588-0108).
		Estonia formally joined the EU on May 1, 2004, one of 10 states, mostly from eastern Europe, to join the Union on that date.
		Estonia also is represented in the United States by a Consulate General in New York and three Honorary Consuls: Jaak Treiman in Los Angeles, Mart Kask in Seattle, and Scott E. Schul in Maine.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5377.htm (5524 words)

	Estonians trickle into polling stations in first European election - EUbusiness
		A few voters braved spring drizzle in sleepy EU newcomer Estonia on Sunday to vote for their six members of the European Parliament for the first time, amid signs of a very low turnout in the Baltic state.
		Only 7.8 percent of Estonia's electorate -- about half the amount in last year's general election -- took up the chance to vote in advanced polling stations which were open across the country from June 7 to June 9.
		Estonia is one of the EU's most sparsely populated countries, with 1.4 million inhabitants spread over an area larger than the size of Belgium.
	www.eubusiness.com /Estonia/040613085625.vno8vbe6 (460 words)

	2004 EP Elections
		The European Parliament Election in Hungary, June 13 2004
		The European Parliament Election in the Czech Repbulic, June 11-12 2004
		The European Parliament Election in Latvia, June 12 2004
	www.sussex.ac.uk /sei/1-4-2-2.html (359 words)

	EU Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Other organisations of European countries such as NATO, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, and the Western European Union have parliamentary assemblies as well,but the European Parliament is unique in that it is directly elected by the people and has legislative power.
		European Parliament party groups are distinct from the corresponding political parties, although they are intimately linked.Usually, the European parties also have member parties from European countries which are not members of the European Union.
		Elections to the parliament are held using various forms of proportional representation, as selected by the member states.These forms include regional and national lists and Single Transferable Vote.
	www.therfcc.org /eu-parliament-183592.html (546 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mitch Hepburn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1926 he was elected to Parliament as a representative of Elgin West, and was overwhelmingly re-elected in 1930.
		Senior cabinet ministers such as Provincial Secretary Harry Nixon resigned demanding a leadership convention and due to pressure from both provinical Liberals and the federal wing one was held in May 1943 at which Hepburn finally tendered his resignation as leader (by telegram) and Nixon was elected the new party leader and Premier.
		The Liberals under Nixon were routed soon after in the 1943 Ontario election falling to third party status behind the Progressive Conservatives under George Drew and the Ontario CCF under Ted Jolliffe.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mitch-Hepburn (895 words)

	European Election Survey 2004
		The EES 2004 is based on a mixture of postal and telephone surveys representative of the general adult population in each of the 25 member states of the enlarged European Union.
		2 Elections to the European Parliament represent potentially the most important opportunity for citizens to express their views about the future direction of the EU, to hold EP representatives and parties to account, and to influence the democratic process.
		Thus in the European Election Study of 2004 we firstly hope to discover whether an identification with Europe influences voters in elections to the European Parliament.
	government.politics.ox.ac.uk /Projects/EES_2004.asp (1445 words)

	Estonia posts 26.7 percent turnout in first European election - EUbusiness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Estonia posts 26.7 percent turnout in first European election
		Estonia's National Electoral Committee said after polling stations closed that 233,450 of the 874,402 registered voters took part in the vote.
		The participation in legislative elections in March 2003 was twice as high with 58 percent of Estonians casting their votes.
	www.eubusiness.com /afp/040613190600.ztm23buq (293 words)

	2004 - Simple English Wikipedia
		2004 is a year in the 21st century.
		January 22- The European Union bans the import of poultry from Thailand, as bird flu spreads throughout Southeast Asia
		The chief justice of the Haitian Supreme Court, Boniface Alexandre, is sworn in as interim (short-term) president.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004 (2267 words)

	THE EUROPEAN GAP: Turnout in European Parliament Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		At the European Parliament election in 1999, across 15 countries turnout averaged 53.0 percent, whereas it averaged 75.0 percent in the latest national parliamentary election.
		The results of the European Parliament election 2004 have been a big disappointment to the winners as well as the losers, for they show that most electors would rather stay home than take the trouble to vote for or against them.
		Promptly after the 2004 Election Parliament results are in, IDEA will produce a fresh report on the Euro-Gap and identifying the extent to which national politics or Europe-wide influences explain turnout differences between countries.
	wwwold.idea.int /elections/voter_turnout_europe/introduction.htm (540 words)

	MOFA : Estonia
		Estonia will go to the polls on 13 June 2004 to elect six Members to the European Parliament for a term of five years.
		Six of the 732 Members of the European Parliament are elected from Estonia.
		Basis of the electoral system: Estonian Members of the European Parliament shall be elected by secret ballot on the basis of a general, uniform and direct right to vote.
	www.vm.ee /estonia/pea_172/kat_340/4523.html (1112 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Election 2004 - Europe \| PBS
		On June 13, election night for most of Europe, I was invited to join a hundred or so of the EU elite -- a mix of politicians, parliamentary aides, policymakers and multilingual technocrats -- as they awaited the returns in a reception hall on the seventh floor of the Parliament.
		Indeed, the election is viewed in Brussels -- the capital of an integrated Europe -- from a new position as the EU evolves into a superpower that for the first time in history is based not on nationalism or military strength, but on the idea that national interests can be better expressed collectively than individually.
		Europeans on the left, right and center know there is a lot at stake in the U.S. presidential election.
	www.pbs.org /elections/homepagefeatures/redir/http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/elections/europe (2706 words)

	European Greens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The program of the European Greens emphasizes typical green topics such as nuclear energy, consumer safety and women's liberation.In the area of Internet politics, the EFA/The Greens parliament faction became famous for the strong support of proponents for a free information infrastructure, especiallyin their work on the directive against software patents in 2003.
		The first goal of the newly founded European Greens is the election campaign for the European Parliament in June, 2004 (see European Parliament Election 2004), whichwill be the first election campaign in Europe that features similar motifs and slogans in all EU countries.
		Critics have suggested that the European Greens do not yet amount to a single party: in particular the different nationalcomponents have a widely different approach to the European Union ranging from strong eurofederalist forces to eurosceptics.
	www.therfcc.org /european-greens-69749.html (344 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Dutch defy EU on election results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the UK, the elections are likely to be the last test of public opinion before general elections next year.
		As a result, European election turnout is already higher in many areas than at the last elections in 1999.
		The European Parliament was designed as a democratic counterweight to the European Commission, whose members are appointed, not elected.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3792877.stm (572 words)

	2004 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Estonia
		Estonia is a constitutional parliamentary democracy with a unicameral legislature (Parliament), a prime minister as head of government, and a president as head of state.
		Parliamentary elections, last held in March 2003, led to the formation of a three party coalition government comprised of the Res Publica, Reform, and People's Union parties.
		A presidentially established roundtable composed of representatives of the Parliament, the Union of Estonian National Minorities, and the Russian speaking population's Representative Assembly discussed and made recommendations on social integration issues, as did an analogous but independent roundtable that met monthly.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41679.htm (3658 words)

	European Parliament election, 2004
		The same issue of European Voice also reported that Sweden's Junilistan, the pro-life League of Polish Families, and the French Combats Souverainistes will join the Europe of Democracies and Diversities group, which already includes the United Kingdom Independence Party.
		On July 20, 2004 the group, comprising 37 MEPs, changed its name to 'Independence and Democracy'.
		European Greens manifesto; Successes of the Greens in the European Parliament; A Green Contract for Europe; European Election Manifesto: Green Party of England and Wales Manifesto: Northern Ireland (Greens/EFA)
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/european_parliament_election__2004 (770 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- European Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		In 2004, the EU admitted 10 central and eastern European countries that are, in general, less advanced technologically and economically than the existing 15.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/ee.html (2010 words)

	European Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On several occasions parliament has expressed a wish to choose itself the location of its seat, but in the successive treaties, including the newest Treaty of Nice, European governments keep reserving this right for themselves.
		There are at the moment 626 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), with a proportionally larger representation for smaller member states.
		Following the enlargement of the Union on 1 May, they will be the largest simultaneous transnational elections ever held in the world, with approaching 400 million citizens eligible to vote.
	www.portaljuice.com /european_parliament.html (467 words)

	Palgrave Macmillan : Catalogue Page
		DescriptionThe 2004 election of the European Parliament marks something of a defining point in the history of European integration.
		The 2004 elections seemed simultaneously mundane and an accepted feature of a sui generis system, now accepted as a polity in its own right, that a quarter of a century ago had seen politicians fiercely disputing the wisdom and desirability of the people directly electing a European Parliament at all.
		European Woman of the Year in 1992, she has published extensively on the European Parliament, Euro-elections, democratic legitimacy and on the EU.
	www.palgrave.com /products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403935181 (163 words)

	European Parliament Elections 2004 : Results
		The 2004 elections have continued the downward trend in voter participation in European elections.
		EurActiv, 7 June 2004) and resulted in the lowest turnout in the history of the European elections, suggesting an increasing distance between the EU institutions and the citizens.
		Prior the first plenary meeting of the European Parliament on 20 July, negotiations will be ongoing to decide on the make-up of the political groups in the newly elected Parliament.
	www.euprayer.com /EP%20Elections%202004.htm (1338 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Yegorov declared that EUPP was planning to appeal to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament to pay attention to the situation in Latvia.
		He said that a conference of those forces would take place in Tallinn before the European Parliament election, to discuss defense of ethnic minorities' rights by constitutional means both in the Baltic countries as well as in the European Parliament.
		Yegorov underlined that the Russian-speaking population of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania totaled about 1.4 million people and it was a force that had to be reckoned with.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art3566.txt (448 words)

	Women in the election to the European Parliament in 2004 - english (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Even though the political parties usually declare their support for gender equality policy and the idea of increasing the number of women in the decision-making and even though there are relevant provisions in their internal statutes, they do nothing in practice to encourage women to run for the political seats.
		Female candidates are often on the low positions on the candidate lists, do not have funds for their election campaign, they do not have access to the media and therefore they are no likely to present their political agenda to the voters.
		The experiences of the accession countries and the challenges concerning the European integration" which was prepared at the request of Women's Program of the Stefan Batory Foundation as a part of the regional project of the Network Women's Program OSI and Partnership for Equality Foundation from Romania, prof.
	www.oska.org.pl /pe/english/project (1345 words)

	ESTONIA -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Political activity in Estonia in 1998 focused on the legislative elections scheduled for March 1999.
		Opinion polls showed falling support, and in the country's first elections to the European Parliament in June, Res Publica finished sixth, garnering only 7% of the vote and none of the six available seats.
		Politics in Estonia in 1999 was dominated by parliamentary elections in March and municipal elections in October.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9124479 (824 words)

	ELECTIONS TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On June 13, 2004 Estonia had elections to the European Parliament.
		Six Members of the European Parliament was elected for a term of five years.
		Election results were determined based on the principle of proportionality.
	www.vvk.ee /ep04/index_eng.html (35 words)

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