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	Election Resources on the Internet / Recursos Electorales en la Internet
		The results of legislative elections held in Sweden from 1973 to 2006, as well as an overview of the proportional representation system used to choose members of the Swedish legislature are available in Elections to the Swedish Riksdag.
		The results of legislative elections held in Norway from 1985 to 2005, as well as a description of the proportional representation system used to choose members of the Norwegian legislature are available in Elections to the Norwegian Storting.
		Elections to the New Zealand House of Representatives and Elections to the German Bundestag describe the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation system used in both countries, with results of parliamentary elections held in New Zealand from 1996 to 2005 and in Germany from 1972 to 2005.
	electionresources.org (1557 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)

	2004 EP Elections : Sussex European Institute : University of Sussex
		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 (380 words)

	Finland
		The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomen tasavalta, Swedish: Republiken Finland) is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bordered by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west.
		The climate in Southern Finland is a northern temperate climate.
		Finland's policy of neutrality was moderated further from "active neutrality" to "military non-alignment," with an emphasis on maintaining a competent independent defence.
	www.creekin.net /n66-finland.html (3219 words)

	CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Voter Toolkit - Election Dictionary
		Prime Minister Paul Martin formed a minority government after the June 2004 election, with 135 MPs out of a possible 308, compared to 99 for the Conservatives, 54 for the Bloc, 19 for the NDP and one Independent.
		The houses of Parliament are the elected lower house, the House of Commons and the Senate, whose members are appointed by the prime minister.
		Elections Canada defines a third party as "a person or group, other than a candidate, registered party or electoral district association of a registered party," and requires that they be registered if they spend $500 or more in election advertising expenses.
	www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/voterstoolkit/electiondictionary.html (5240 words)

	European Affairs [A Publication of the European Institute]
		Composed of 105 representatives from the European Parliament, national parliaments and the governments of the member states and the candidate countries, the convention broke out of the rigid framework of intergovernmental conferences, in which national interests usually set the tone.
		The draft treaty is the sum of numerous trade-offs, such as the agreement on a stronger president of the Council in exchange for a president of the Commission elected by the European Parliament.
		Until the Parliament and not the Council has the decisive say on the nomination, the procedure cannot be described as a true election.
	www.europeanaffairs.org /archive/2003_fall/2003_fall_42.php4 (2428 words)

	Finland History & Finland Culture \| iExplore.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Russians continued to covet the territory and as Swedish influence in Europe waned at the beginning of the 18th century, Finland was briefly occupied by the Russians.
		In 1917, Finland was an autonomous region within the Russian Empire but, in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution, Finland declared independence, which the new Soviet government accepted after brief efforts to re-assert control.
		Finland is also a member of the Nordic Council and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
	www.iexplore.com /dmap/Finland/History (1087 words)

	CER \| Finland backs Hungary's EU bid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Finland must state in the first half of this year its position as to whether the 1992 political pact with Russia should remain in force.
		Finland postponed acceptance, because there was uncertainty about qualified majority decisions and the text contained the idea of moving EU summit meetings to Brussels.
		Putin visited Finland when he was prime minister to unofficially attending a meeting of EU leaders during the Helsinki EU summit in December 1999.
	www.ce-review.org /00/3/finlandnews3.html (1046 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Europeans vote in final day of balloting for EU parliament
		Yet the issues at stake were European, from the continent's role in Iraq to the EU's difficult attempts to negotiate a constitution.
		The election was a first for the 10 new EU countries, which include former communist countries such as Poland and Hungary.
		The European Parliament, based in both Strasbourg and Brussels, was created to provide a democratic balance to the EU's powerful unelected commission and has steadily gained legislative powers since the first elections in 1979.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040613-0735-europeanelections.html (678 words)

	Finland : In Depth : History \| Frommers.com
		Eastern Finland, from that moment on, became part of the Russian-Byzantine world; although it shared a common language with the western sector, that region would not be reunited with the rest of Finland again except for a brief period early in the 20th century.
		In 1998 Finland began plans to develop a "coherent strategy" toward Moscow on the part of the E.U. This "coordinated" Russian policy was in place when Finland assumed the presidency of the E.U in the last 6 months of 1999.
		Finland has long been known as a gay-friendly nation -- in fact, Tarja Halonen, the president of Finland, was a former chairman of the Finnish National Organization for Sexual Equality and has been speaking out on gay rights for years.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/finland/0261020044.html (2097 words)

	European Union Profile
		The European Union (EU) is one of the United States' strongest strategic partners, with the importance of the relationship reflected in our close cooperation on regional crises and conflicts, our extensive collaboration on a wide range of global challenges, from counter-terrorism to nonproliferation, and our deep trade and investment relations.
		Parliament's powers have gradually grown with the entry into force of the Single European Act (1986), the Maastricht Treaty (1993) and the Treaty of Amsterdam (1999).
		European firms were the largest foreign investors in 44 U.S. states and the second largest foreign investor in the remaining six.
	www.state.gov /p/eur/rls/fs/54126.htm (4262 words)

	Constitution - Ratification
		Majority of 2/3 of votes from parliament after proposed constitutional amendment was approved by majority of votes from parliament and its new-election.
		Furthermore some critics said it could suit Finland’s purposes well, the fact that there would be no decisions made on the future of the Constitution until the second half of 2006, when Finland holds the EU Presidency.
		Finland's parliament on Friday voted in favour of starting the process to ratify the EU Constitution.
	www.unizar.es /euroconstitucion/Treaties/Treaty_Const_Rat_Finland.htm (876 words)

	Europaworld 10/9/2004 Elections Underway For Afghanistan's First Free President
		European countries contributing to the $58 million election budget have included the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany.
		The Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB), which is supervising the elections, issued a statement saying that the campaign must be based on the principles of freedom of expression and conducted in a climate free of intimidation, which allowed for democratic debates and discussion.
		The presidential election is Afghanistan's first poll since the UN Assistance Mission to the country (UNAMA) was set up to help reconstruction following a quarter century of war and the subsequent Taliban regime.
	www.europaworld.org /week191/elections10904.htm (220 words)

	EurActiv.com - European Parliament Elections 2004 : results \| EU - European Information on Elections
		The 2004 elections have continued the downward trend in voter participation in European elections.
		Council of European Municipalies and Regions: Manifesto for the European elections
		Eurochambres: EUROCHAMBRES' Manifesto for the European Parliament 2004-2009
	www.euractiv.com /en/elections/european-parliament-elections-2004-results/article-117482 (2391 words)

	EU news: An Independent View from European Voice
		Reinsurers are hoping that European Union plans to regulate their industry might eventually stop the US from requiring that they tie up huge amounts of capital as risk protection.
		EUROPEAN markets are set for a rocky ride in 2006 as companies struggle to get to grips with the new international accounting standards (IAS) next year, experts have warned.
		Letters published in European Voice recently from both BirdLife International and from the UK Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) suggest that the Commission’s Environment directorate-general (DG) is about to ditch support for nature, as it moves to new and simpler funding instruments under the 2007-13 Financial Perspectives.
	www.europeanvoice.com /archive/issue.asp?id=422 (1562 words)

	CNN.com - Ex-Finnish PM denies Iraq charge - Mar. 3, 2004
		Finland's first female prime minister, who quit last year accused of using leaked documents on Iraq to win an election, actively sought secret information, the court heard on the first day of her trial on Wednesday.
		It later emerged that Manninen was the source of the leak, in a stroke tainting Finland's top two political offices and stunning a country proud of its squeaky clean image abroad.
		But she still enjoys support among Centre Party members and in June, a year after she quit, she will run in elections for the European Parliament.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/03/03/finland.pm.trial.reut/index.html (507 words)

	Child Focus - Centre Européen pour Enfants Disparus et Sexuellement Exploités
		The European Federation for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children (folder pdf), whose members have the mission of talking with a single voice to the various European bodies, serves as a driving force for this development and constitutes a forum for the exchange of information and expertise.
		The Federation was officially founded on 4 May 2001 at the European Parliament in Brussels under the patronage of Mrs Nicole Fontaine (President of the Parliament) and Mr Antonio Vitorino (member of the European Commission – DG for Justice and Home Affairs).
		In March 2004, for instance, an important meeting was held in Romania with representatives of NGOs, the police and the courts, at which the operational model of Belgium and the United States (NCMEC - www.ncmec.org) was presented.
	www.childfocus.be /en/activities_3.php (2453 words)

	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 (819 words)

	Foreign teams set to monitor balloting - The Washington Times: World - November 01, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		About 60 mainly European election observers have taken up their posts in six states, including Florida and Ohio, saying they hope their presence will serve as a "preventative to the shenanigans" during voting tomorrow.
		The observers all are legislators who have volunteered to observe the U.S. elections at the request of the OSCE, a 55-member alliance founded in 1975 to foster East-West cooperation and monitor compliance with the Helsinki Accords.
		Many Eastern European nations are frustrated by the OSCE's focus on monitoring elections in emerging democracies, explained Andreas Nothelle, a German parliamentarian who is now an ambassador at the organization's Vienna, Austria, headquarters.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20041101-122925-6356r.htm (759 words)

	A Fact Sheet: Finland and ADB - ADB.org
		Finland is the ninth largest shareholder in ADB among its nonregional members, a position it shares with Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.
		Finland has contributed to the Asian Development Fund (ADF), which is ADB’s window for concessional lending to its borrowing members, and to the Technical Assistance Special Fund (TASF), which provides grants to borrowing members to help prepare projects and undertake technical or policy studies.
		As of 31 December 2004, there were six professional staff members from Finland in ADB (0.70% of the total professional staff), including two senior staff members.
	www.adb.org /Documents/Fact_Sheets/FIN.asp (1099 words)

	Timeline Finland
		The British and French came to the Finnish defense in mid-December but by March, the "Peace of Moscow" treaty was signed, and Finland ceded 16,000-square miles of land to the Soviet Union, including the city of Vyborg and the Karelian Isthmus.
		1999 Feb 12, In Finland the parliament voted 171 to 4 to reduce the president's influence on foreign affairs and government formation.
		2004 Feb 28, In Finland hundreds of trucks prepared to roll onto frozen roads at midnight, stocked with beer and hard cider for a population that eagerly awaits a historic government measure that will cut alcohol prices by nearly 40 percent.
	timelines.ws /countries/FINLAND.HTML (2446 words)

	Statistics Finland - Elections statistics - European Parliament elections 2004
		Political parties in European Parliament elections and political groups in the European Parliament in 2004 (html)
		Number of votes cast for the parties and percentage by municipality, voting turnout in 2004 and the change from the previous European Parliament elections, major parties (Excel table)
		Number of votes cast for the parties and percentage by party in European Parliament elections 2004, 1999 and 1996 and in Parliamentary elections 2003 (Excel table)
	tilastokeskus.fi /tk/he/vaalit/vaalit2004eur/index_en.html (264 words)

	CNN.com - Latvia, Malta cast EU ballots - Jun 12, 2004
		The two countries, which joined the European Union only last month, are voting Saturday along with Italy as part of four days of elections across the bloc.
		Balloting for representatives to the enlarged 25-country European Parliament began Thursday in Britain and the Netherlands.
		The European Parliament is based in Strasbourg, France and Brussels, Belgium, with part of its administration also in Luxembourg.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/06/12/eu.elections (482 words)

	Henrik Lax
		This credibility is further reinforced by the fact that FINLAND is seen and heard in both Finnish and Swedish in the European Parliament.
		Finland’s representatives in the European Union - be it in the Council of Ministers, the European Parliament or any other organ - must forcefully and patiently insist that the dialogue with the United States over our shared transatlantic interests be deepened.
		The decisions of the European Parliament are of major importance for the future of the citizens of the Union and for the European Union’s future itself.
	www.henriklax.nu /english (2733 words)

	EurActiv.com - The European Parliament election - a wake-up call? \| EU - European Information on Future EU
		Given the uncertainties surrounding the final make up of the European Parliament political groups, it is even possible that EU Heads of Government may decide to delay their nomination of the Commission President when they meet this week to be better able to judge the final political shape of the new European Parliament.
		In a sense the European Parliament elections are suffering from acute political malnutrition.
		Perhaps the biggest challenge facing the European Parliament – indeed facing the Union as a whole – over the next five years is whether the political groups will evolve into coherent trans-national European political parties ready and willing to fight for control of the Commission.
	www.euractiv.com /en/agenda2004/european-parliament-election-wake-call/article-128496 (1343 words)

	Finnish Presidential Election
		Sauli Niinistö, director of the EU's European Investment Bank, former party leader and minister of finance, a candidate of the current major opposition party National Coalition.
		Messages are about Halonen's "speech" in 1976 where she "had said that it would be bless to Finland if the country would join to Soviet Union" and other bullsh**t like that.
		As Finland has only 5 million inhabitants and US 280 million I dare to say that there are much better than US polls.
	www.uselectionatlas.org /FORUM/index.php?topic=34880.msg790517 (1760 words)

	BBC NEWS \| In Depth \| Vote 2004 \| Finland European Election
		The main opposition party, the Conservative National Coalitional Party took the largest share of the vote with 23.7%, although they remained behind the combined results of the two main parties in Finland's centre-left coalition government.
		The results translate into three of Finland's 14 seats in the European Parliament for the Social Democrats, and four each for the Centre Party and the National Coalition Party.
		Turnout, at 41.1% was up from the last elections in 1999, credited in part to a media drive urging Finns to vote.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/shared/bsp/hi/vote2004/euro/html/7.stm (121 words)

	Women and Equality Unit \| Women in Public Life \| Women in Politics
		It is for political parties to decide for themselves whether they wish to increase the number of women candidates standing for election for their party and, if so, how to achieve this increase.
		Following that, the 2001 General Election saw a drop in the number of women elected to the UK Parliament for the first time in twenty years.
		The legislation covers elections to the House of Commons, the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the European Parliament and local government elections (excluding directly elected mayors and community councils in Scotland).
	www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk /public_life/parliament.htm (688 words)

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