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  european parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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.
Although the two institutions of the EU's executive, the European Commission and the European Council, both have their seats in Brussels, a protocol attached to the Treaty of Amsterdam requires the European Parliament to have monthly sessions in Strasbourg.
Elections to the parliament are held using various forms of proportional representation, as selected by the member states.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /European_Parliament.html   (681 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: European Parliament Election 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/European-Parliament-Election-2004   (783 words)

  
 European Parliament Election, Germany, June 13, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
At 43 percent, voter participation was at an all-time low for a federal-level election, a fact that in light of the concrete influences of the European Parliament shows a disconnect from their policies.
The European Parliamentary election was used by many voters as a vehicle to punish the SPD government in Berlin.
However, the European Parliamentary election in Germany, particularly because of its low voter turnout, is no test case for the Bundestag elections in 2004.
www.aicgs.org /wahlen/eu04sum.shtml   (736 words)

  
 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings (also known as 11/3, 3/11, M-11 and 11-M) were a series of coordinated terrorist bombings against the commuter train system of Madrid, Spain on the morning of 11 March 2004, which killed 191 people and wounded 1,460.
The European Parliament observed a minute of silence; its president Pat Cox expressed the parliament's condolences, and a resolution was introduced proposing 11 March as a European Day of Remembrance of Victims of Terrorism.
Germany hastily arranged an urgent meeting of European Union security chiefs on 14 March 2004 as possible al-Qaida involvement in the Madrid bombings set alarm bells ringing across the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/March_11,_2004_Madrid_attacks   (4155 words)

  
 Socialism Today - Euro-elections 2004
Elections to the European parliament in June became a massive protest vote.
Of those who did not boycott the elections, the revulsion against the ruling parties was mostly expressed through votes for the traditional opposition parties or, in some cases, for parties closely allied to the main ruling party, but seen as ‘less guilty’.
According to the constitution, the European parliament also doubles its areas of co-decision and is given a say over such things as farm subsidies, fisheries and the EU budget.
www.socialismtoday.org /85/euroelections.html   (7065 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christendom
The opening century found the Church in the midst of that Hildebrandine movement, in favour of clerical celibacy and against simony, which was necessary to save the spiritual character of the clergy from being obliterated by too close a contact with temporal administration and the material ambition of feudal society.
The settlement of a disputed papal election practically depended on his verdict, he appeased the feuds of German noble families and reconciled Italian cities, he led one emperor to the South of Italy and sent another on a crusade of the East; more wonderful still, single-handed he pursued the Roman people to forsake the antipope.
Germany was long to regret the glories of the reign of Frederick Barbarossa, yet even his power failed to level the Alps politically and to overcome the still hardly conscious nationalism of the Lombard cities.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03699b.htm   (5586 words)

  
 European Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Other organisations of European countries, like 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.
The European parliament represents 374 million citizens of the European Union; starting with the eastern expansion in 2004 this will increase to 450 million people.
There are at the moment 626 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), with a proportionally larger representation for smaller member states.
www.usapedia.com /e/european-parliament.html   (495 words)

  
 Voting Systems - dKosopedia
This article covers voting systems used in elections, and some of the systems which are commonly used to produce the final result of the political will of the voters of a particular jurisdiction or district.
For example, elections to a legislature may seem driven by personality on the local level, but in a legislature which is strongly majoritarian, voters who chose their favorite candidate on local issues could well be in effect supporting a larger set of policies which they do not subscribe to.
In New Zealand and Germany additional seats are granted to parties if their total number of single member district seats is less than their share of the popular vote in all the legislative races combined.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Voting_Systems   (3204 words)

  
 IV360/1 - Autumn 2004
In addition to the election for the European Parliament there were local elections in some parts of the country, and elections in London for the assembly and mayor.
As a Sinn Fein European MP was also elected in the north of Ireland with 26.1% of the vote, the organization became the first European political party to have deputies elected from two different member states.
The results of the European parliamentary elections in Spain were characterized in the first place by the highest rate of abstention registered in our country since 1977 (55.8%), reflecting thus the tendency, common in the majority of EU countries, towards a growing distance of the public from the Parliament and the European institutions.
www.internationalviewpoint.org /rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=7   (1976 words)

  
 European Parliament election, 2004 (Germany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elections to the European Parliament were held in Germany on June 13, 2004.
The elections saw a heavy defeat for the ruling Social Democratic Party, which polled its lowest share of the vote since World War II.
More than half of this loss, however, went to other parties of the left, particularly the Greens.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Parliament_election,_2004_(Germany)   (126 words)

  
 Give Europe A Face: Newsletter 25.05.2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In the future European Parliament should be the second chamber of the parliament, acting as a chamber of the people alongside the chambre of the states in the Federal Europe.
We as young European Liberals believe that it is of utmost importance that all Liberals across the continent stand united in their vision for the next European Parliament 2004-2009.
Elections to the European Parliament are held every fifth year at the same time in the Member States according to their national election legislation.
www.giveeuropeaface.net /index.php?id=788   (3280 words)

  
 European Parliament UK Office - Elections Facts
Elections to the European Parliament are held every five years.
The European Parliamentary Elections Act, which received Royal Assent on 14th January 1999, introduced a regional list system with seats allocated to parties in proportion to their share of the vote.
There would, however, be a by-election if the vacancy arose because of the death or resignation of an independent MEP or if there was no-one left on the party list.
www.europarl.org.uk /guide/Gelectionfacts.htm   (278 words)

  
 UK Liberal Democrats in Europe: Newsletter June 2004
This Euro election special edition newsletter has a number of reports from the field, an analysis of the results as a whole and what they mean for European Liberals, and an invitation to our AGM taking place on 14 July 2004 in Brussels.
I quickly learned that unfortunately a European election did not capture the imagination of the electorate in quite the same way as a general election.
Both were inter-twined with local elections; in London with the mayoral and Assembly elections; and in my corner of south-east England - Sandgate in Shepway (the Folkestone & Hythe constituency of Michael Howard) with elections for a newly-formed Parish council.
www.cix.co.uk /~sldweb/overseas/eun04iii.htm   (1829 words)

  
 European Parliament UK Office - European Elections
Results of the 2004 election in the UK by region.
Record of the parties and candidates taking part in the June 2004 election in the UK Record of the parties and candidates who took part in the 1999 election in the UK Results of the 1999 election in the UK by region; members elected and share of the vote by party.
Results of the elections to the European Parliament in the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1999; seats won, share of the vote by party, voter turnout across the EU.
www.europarl.org.uk /guide/textonly/Gelecttx.htm   (634 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 /frontlineworld/elections/europe   (2706 words)

  
 Election Resources on the Internet: Western Europe
Elections to the Senate of the Republic - Italy - in Italian
Elections to the Spanish Congress of Deputies, in English and Spanish
Parliamentary Elections in the U.K. - Elections to the House of Commons
electionresources.org /western.europe.html   (430 words)

  
 Give Europe A Face: Newsletter 08.06.2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The European Union is a unique institution where a number of problems that cannot be dealt with inside national borders are (or should be) approached in common and result in a common vision or strategy that goes beyond the sum of the 15, now 25, national positions.
For this, the survey tried to quantify their voting intention, determine how much they knew about the EP elections and the European Parliament in general and see to what extent they were aware of the European Union and its institutions.
According to UEF there is the danger that the European elections are once again misused as a referendum on the performance of the member state governments.
www.giveeuropeaface.net /index.php?id=961   (5336 words)

  
 Final result of the 2004 election to the European Parliament
Consequently, the final result of the 2004 election to the European Parliament does not differ from the official provisional result issued at an earlier time.
The final result of the 2004 European election for the Federation, the 16 Länder, the 439 towns not attached to an administrative district, and administrative districts are available on the Internet at http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de.
They are documented in the publication of the Federal Statistical Office on the election of the members of the European Parliament from the Federal Republic of Germany of 13 June 2004, no. 3 (Endgültige Ergebnisse nach kreisfreien Städten und Landkreisen — Final results by towns not attached to an administrative district, and administrative districts).
www.bundeswahlleiter.de /wahlen/europawahl2004/informationen/pressemitteilungen/presse04e/p0300212.htm   (272 words)

  
 2004 EP Elections
EPERN is producing briefing papers on the 2004 European Parliament elections for each EU member state.
The European Parliament Election in the Czech Repbulic, June 11-12 2004
The European Parliament Election in the Netherlands, June 10 2004
www.sussex.ac.uk /sei/1-4-2-2.html   (357 words)

  
 Search for European Parliament Election, 2004 - WordIQ.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This area is divided into four sections: Results of the 2004 election in the UK by region.
The European Parliament election, 2004 was the UK part of the European Parliament election, 2004...
European Parliament election, 2004 (France) Elections to the European Parliament were held in France on June 13, 2004
web2.wordiq.com /web/european+parliament+election,+2004.html   (499 words)

  
 ARCHIVE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION - "The Content of European Parliament Election Campaigns: A Framework for Analysis ...
This paper seeks to explain the overwhelmingly national focus of European Parliament election campaigns.
The first section reviews the plethora of oft-contradictory existing explanations for the national focus of EP campaigns, arguing that few of these explanations are both logically convincing and empirically supported.
The third section uses the 2004 EP campaigns by German political parties as a plausibility probe to investigate our hypotheses.
aei.pitt.edu /archive/00003076   (252 words)

  
 Franco German locomotive
The Franco German locomotive is a term used to describe the highly collaborative "sister" countries, France and Germany, which of all European nations are the most enthusiastic for further intergration of the European Union.
This integrationist agenda is facing growing opposition, naturally from the United Kingdom, but also increasing numbers of EU countries, particulary the new members where euro-critical parties performed well in the European Parliament election, 2004.
The government of the two nations are making enormous efforts to merge the biggest enterprises of the Franco-German industrial alliance, it is interesting to note that once united the Franco-Germans enterprises often rises to world leadership in their respective fields.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/franco_german_locomotive   (258 words)

  
 European Elections 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Member States are allocated seats within the European Parliament to broadly reflect the size of their national population.
For example, whilst Germany elected 99 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in the 1999 elections, Luxembourg with its small population elected only 6.
There will be 732 MEPs sitting in the European Parliament after this year's elections of which the UK will elect 78, the same number as France and Italy.
www.europecounts.org.uk /electioninfo/europe_explained   (430 words)

  
 Federal Foreign Office - Facts about Germany: European Parliament
Since 1979, members of the European Parliament have been selected by general, direct elections every five years, with the next elections scheduled for 2004.
Not least of all owing to this direct legitimization the European Parliament has evolved from being an advisory assembly to constituting a parliament with legislative powers and controlling authority on a par with that of the national parliament.
The members of the European Parliament are elected according to the principle of national election regulations.
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 Historical German Election Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
European Parliament Election in Germany, June 13, 2004
Elections to the Federal Parliament, October 1994 (Tables)
Elections to the Federal Parliament prior to 1994
www.aicgs.org /wahlen/history.shtml   (33 words)

  
 Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats - Homepage
Geoffrey Van Orden MEP, the European Parliament's rapporteur for Bulgaria, has intervened with the President of the largest political group in the Parliament, Hans-Gert Poettering (EPP-ED), in order to facilitate the early arrival of Bulgarian observers to the Parliament.
Member of the EPP Group in the European Parliament from 1979 until 1999 and former Belgian Minister for Economic Affairs from 1975 until 1977, died on April 4th, 2005
Parliament's priorities and proposals for the regional policy and the reform of the structural funds
www.epp-ed.org   (507 words)

  
 France
The conservative, pro-business climate contributed to the election of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing as president in 1974.
Elections for the National Assembly in 1997 gave the Socialist coalition a majority.
In 2004, the French government passed a law banning the wearing of Muslim headscarves and other religious symbols in schools.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107517.html   (1821 words)

  
 Wikisource:Election data - Wikisource
This page links to data about election results anywhere in the world.
This can include the results of elections from federal, sub-national and municipal authorities, and can include referendum results.
2004 Caucuses and Primaries: Iowa, New Hampshire, Delaware, South Carolina, Missouri, Arizona, New Mexico, Virgina, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Michigan, Washington State, Maine,...
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