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  Liechtenstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Principality of Liechtenstein (German: Fürstentum Liechtenstein) is a tiny, landlocked state in Western Europe, bordered by Switzerland to its west and by Austria to its east.
Liechtenstein is situated in the Upper Rhine valley of the European Alps.
Liechtenstein is one of only two doubly landlocked countries in the world; i.e., a landlocked country surrounded by other landlocked countries.
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 Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
The Prince of Liechtenstein has sweepingly broad powers; a referendum to adopt Hans-Adam's revision of the constitution to expand his powers passed in 2003.
On August 15, 2004 Prince Hans-Adam II formally turned the power of making day-to-day governmental decisions over to his son Prince Alois, as a way of transitioning to a new generation.
On July 30, 1967 at Vaduz, Liechtenstein he married his cousin Marie Aglaë, Countess Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (born 1940).
www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Hans-Adam_II_of_Liechtenstein   (258 words)

  
 Liechtenstein - Gurupedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
Liechtenstein is a parliamentary democracy, headed by the prince, or Fürst, currently Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein, who succeeded his father after his death in 1989.
Liechtenstein is situated in the Rhine valley in the
The Liechtenstein family claims 1,600 sq km of land in the Czech Republic which was confiscated from its royal family in 1918.
www.gurupedia.com /l/li/liechtenstein.htm   (643 words)

  
 Liechtenstein -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
Prince Hans Adam II succeeded to the throne in 1989 after the death of his father, Francis Joseph II, and has had a number of conflicts with the parliament due to his attempts to have a significant role in running the government, particularly its economic policy.
Le prince Hans-Adam II du Liechtenstein Le prince Hans-Adam II du Liechtenstein, 58 ans, a annoncé vendredi qu'il quittera.
Le prince Hans Adam II du Liechtenstein Dans un an exactement, le 15 août 2004, le prince Hans Adam II, 58 ans, qui règne.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/liechten_history.asp   (635 words)

  
 Liechtenstein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
The Principality of Liechtenstein (German: Fürstentum Liechtenstein) is a tiny, landlocked microstate in Western Europe, bordered by Switzerland to its west and by Austria to its east.
Liechtenstein is a parliamentary democracy headed by its ruling prince or Fürst.
Liechtenstein is one of only two doubly landlocked countries in the world, i.e.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Liechtenstein.htm   (1692 words)

  
 Profiel: Prins Hans Adam II
Liechtenstein, zo schrijft Vanderbruggen, is 's werelds meest discrete plaats voor trusts, een constructie waarbij de eigenaar van een vennootschap ook voor de meest doortastende belastinginspecteur anoniem blijft.
Het lucratieve landje, met prins Hans Adam II voorop, zag aan het eind van de jaren tachtig in dat de reputatie van lustoord voor drugscriminelen op den duur zou leiden tot de dood van de kip met de gouden eieren.
Liechtensteiners die naar democratie verlangen, kunnen maar beter in een echt land gaan wonen, in plaats van in een fiscale constructie.
www.groene.nl /1996/16/ib_liech.html   (1370 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Liechtenstein prince threatens to leave
The head of state of the tiny principality of Liechtenstein, Prince Hans-Adam II, has threatened to pack up and leave the country if his plans to change the constitution are rejected.
Liechtenstein is a tiny sliver of alpine countryside on the border between Austria and Switzerland.
Prince Hans-Adam II has been running the country for nearly 20 years and appears to have run out of patience with its politicians.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1713201.stm   (412 words)

  
 Global Harvest Ministries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
Since Liechtenstein is only about 15 miles long, 4 miles wide and has a population of 30,000, it is not surprising that a person could overlook the country.
The title and deed of Liechtenstein was actually a purchase by Prince Hans Adam von Liechtenstein in 1712.
Liechtenstein has, since the end of the Second World War and particularly in the last forty years, experienced an economic and cultural development...
www.globalharvestministries.org /index.asp?action=liechtenstein   (725 words)

  
 Press Release 2001/14  :   Liechtenstein institutes proceedings against Germany concerning ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
Liechtenstein alleges that in 1998 the position of the Federal Republic of Germany changed however, as a result of a decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of 28 January 1998.
Liechtenstein states that it protested to Germany that the latter was treating as German assets which belonged to nationals of Liechtenstein, to their detriment and the detriment of Liechtenstein itself.
Liechtenstein further requests "that the nature and amount of such reparation should, in the absence of agreement between the parties, be assessed and determined by the Court, if necessary, in a separate phase of the proceedings".
www.icj-cij.org /icjwww/ipresscom/ipress2001/ipresscom2001-14_20010601.htm   (736 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The application of the Beneš decrees to the Liechtenstein property remained an unresolved issue between Liechtenstein and Czechoslovakia until the dissolution of the latter, and it continues to be an unresolved issue as between Liechtenstein and the Czech Republic, on whose territory the vast majority of Liechtenstein property is located.
Prince Hans Adam II the applied to the Cologne Regional Court for an interim injunction ordering the municipality of Cologne to hand over the painting at the end of the exhibition.
The gist of the claim is that Liechtenstein was recognized as a neutral country by all belligerents in WWII and that property of Liechtenstein nationals should not have been seized as reparations.
www.law.harvard.edu /faculty/martin/art_law/hans_adam.htm   (694 words)

  
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Liechtenstein further requests that the amount of compensation should, in the absence of agreement between the parties, be assessed and determined by the Court in a separate phase of the proceedings.”
Liechtenstein maintains, inter alia, that, in so far as there was a change of position by Germany, the decisions of the German courts in the Pieter van Laer Painting case and the “positions taken by the German Government, in the period after 1995” gave rise to the present
Liechtenstein disagrees with Germany’s interpretation of the jurisprudence applicable to this case.  It argues that the temporal limitation expressed in Article 27 (a) of the European Convention for the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes “refers to the generating fact.
www.icj-cij.org /icjwww/idocket/ila/ila_judgment/ila_judgment_20050210.htm   (2826 words)

  
 Portal of the Principality of Liechtenstein - Princely House - Prince Hans-Adam II
Prince Hans Adam II was born on 14 February 1945 as the eldest son of Prince Franz Joseph II
On 30 July 1967, Prince Hans Adam II married Countess Marie Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau (born 14 April 1940 in Prague).
In 1984, the 45th year of his reign, Prince Franz Josef II appointed Prince Hans Adam II as his permanent representative and conferred upon him the mandate to administer the business of the State, in accordance with article 13 of the Constitution.
www.liechtenstein.li /en/eliechtenstein_main_sites/portal_fuerstentum_liechtenstein/fl-fueh-fuerstenhaus/fl-fueh-fuerstenfamilie/fl-fueh-fuerstenfamilie-hansadam2.htm   (442 words)

  
 Hans-Adam II de Liechtenstein - Wikipédia
Jean (Hans) Adam II Ferdinand Aloïs Joseph Marie Marc d'Aviano Pie, prince souverain de Liechtenstein, né le 14 février 1945, fils du prince souverain François Joseph II (1906-1989) et de sa femme Gina von Wilczek (1921-1989), est l'actuel prince régnant de Liechtenstein.
Invoquant une certaine paralysie des institutions, Hans-Adam II a soumis à référendum, en 2003, une révision constitutionnelle adoptée à une large majorité.
Le 15 août 2004, Hans-Adam II a transmis la direction des affaires courantes à son fils Aloïs de Liechtenstein, futur prince souverain Aloïs III, nommé par ordonnance « représentant habilité à exercer toutes les fonctions de chef d'État ».
fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hans-Adam_II_de_Liechtenstein   (204 words)

  
 The EFTA Secretariat: Principality of Liechtenstein
The Principality of Liechtenstein is the 4th smallest country in Europe with a surface of 160 km2 and about 34'000 inhabitants.
Liechtenstein is one of Europe's ten monarchies with a lively parliamentary life and strong elements of direct democracy.
Liechtenstein's inflation rate was 0,6% in 2003 and the unemployment rate was 2,3% in 2003.
secretariat.efta.int /Web/EFTAAtAGlance/memberstates/Liechtenstein   (938 words)

  
 Fürstenhaus Liechtenstein: Prince Hans-Adam II (1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
Prince Hans-Adam II Prince Hans-Adam II was born on 14th February 1945, the eldest son of Prince Franz Joseph II von und zu Liechtenstein and Princess Gina.
The name Hans-Adam forms an apt link between past and present: Prince Johann (Hans) Adam I — he reigned from 1699 until 1712 — was the founder of the Principality of Liechtenstein through his purchases of the Lordship of Schellenberg (1699) and the County of Vaduz (1712).
In autumn 1965 Prince Hans-Adam II embarked on a degree course in Management and Economics at the University of St. Gallen, completing it in 1969 with the degree of Licentiate.
www.fuerstenhaus.li /256.0.html?&lang=en   (254 words)

  
 About Liechtenstein - Prince Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
Prince Hans Adam II was born on 14 February 1945 as the eldest son of Prince Franz Joseph II von Liechtenstein and Princess Gina.
Prince Hans Adam I, who reigned from 1699 to 1712, was the founder of the Principality of Liechtenstein, thanks to his purchases of the Duchy of Schellenberg (1699) and the County of Vaduz (1712).
Princess Marie was born on 14 April 1940 in Prague as Countess Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau, the fourth of seven children of Count Ferdinand Carl Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau and Countess Henriette, born Countess of Ledebur-Wicheln.
www.about-liechtenstein.co.uk /his/roy/f15.html   (669 words)

  
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The proof that the neutrality was respected by all states in World War I and World War II was the fact that none of those states declared war against Liechtenstein or that Liechtenstein was occupied militarily dur­ing those wars.
Historically one has to say that the Liechtenstein family became a foreign dynasty with the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, as it was the case with the Bavarian, Würt­temberg and other dynasties who before had been part of the Holy Roman Empire and were therefore quite close to the Habsburg dynasty.
Prince Hans-Adam II: I have always been in favour of our membership in the EEA despite the fact that this membership was rejected by Switzerland in fall 1992 in a popular vote and despite the opposition of influential groups here in Liechtenstein against our membership in the EEA.
www.volny.cz /kahounuvcirkus/Hans-Adam-II-eng.htm   (3881 words)

  
 The Observer | International | Prince tells voters to hand over power in Liechtenstein
High on a hill in a fourteenth century castle, Prince Hans Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein, Duke of Trappau and Jägerndorf and Count of Rietburg, literally and figuratively looks down on his subjects.
If the family were to reign from there it would be nothing new: Hans Adam's father, Franz Josef II moved back to Liechtenstein in 1938, when Austria was annexed.
Adam, 58, has been a brilliant businessman for the country and his family.
www.observer.co.uk /international/story/0,6903,910554,00.html   (617 words)

  
 boys clothing: European royalty -- Liechtenstein Hans Adam II II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
Franz Joseph II von Liechtenstein was in 1984 succeeded by his oldest son Hans Adam, who in 1989 took the name Hans Adam II.
Prince Hans Adam was granted all the Regency's executive powers in 1984 and rose to the throne upon his father's death in 1989.
Hans Adam in late 1993 he revised the Hausgesetz (the 'house code' of the ruling family), including the right for the population constitutionally to depose him or even abolish the monarchy altogether if they so wished.
histclo.com /royal/gers/lie/lieha2.htm   (148 words)

  
 EURO IUS-INFO European Court of Human Rights - CASE OF PRINCE HANS-ADAM II OF LIECHTENSTEIN v. GERMANY
The applicant is the monarch of Liechtenstein, born in 1945 and living in Vaduz (Liechtenstein).
In his view, the confiscation of Liechtenstein property by the authorities of the former Czechoslovakia could not possibly be regarded as confiscation of “German external assets” within the meaning of Chapter 6, Article 3 § 1, of the Settlement Convention.
Referring to the sovereignty of Liechtenstein and its neutrality during the Second World War, the applicant further considered that the German courts arbitrarily assumed that the assets owned by the applicant’s father had been seized “for the purpose of reparation”.
www.ius-software.si /EUII/EUCHR/dokumenti\2001\07\CASE_OF_PRINCE_HANS-ADAM_II_OF_LIECHTENSTEIN_v._GERMANY_12_07_2001.html   (11291 words)

  
 Liechtenstein News
Liechtenstein's two major parties agreed on Wednesday to form a coalition government after parliamentary elections last month failed to give the ruling party an absolute majority.
In 1719 the Principality of Liechtenstein was found by the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire who named it after the family that owned it.
Farmers in Liechtenstein will no longer be allowed to feed cannabis to their livestock under new rules to be introduced in March in the tiny Alpine state.
www.topix.net /world/liechtenstein   (378 words)

  
 H.S.H. Prince Hans-Adam II
In his address to the Fiftieth General Assembly, His Holiness Pope John Paul II referred to the quest for freedom in the second half of the twentieth century.
After a debate on the Liechtenstein initiative, it was decided that the General Assembly would consider the matter further at a later state.
As one element of Liechtenstein's contribution to commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations in 1995, I gave a grant to Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs to establish a research program on self-determination.
www.catholic.net /RCC/hsmission/UN050896/LIECHTEN.html   (2127 words)

  
 LIECHTENSTEIN MUSEUM Wien
In the decades after World War II it was no longer possible for the Princely Collections to extend their holdings through new acquisitions.
Acquired by Prince Hans Adam II of Liechtenstein in 2002
This fascinating portrait of an unknown gentleman is a masterpiece from the early 1650s, a period of stylistic transition in the artist’s oeuvre during which his pictures generally became darker with fl and greys dominating.
www.liechtensteinmuseum.at /en/pages/neuerwerbungen.asp   (1552 words)

  
 Liechtenstein Prince Hans Adam II: I want my property back
The proof that the neutrality was respected by all states in World War I and World War II was the fact that none of those states declared war against Liechtenstein or that Liechtenstein was occupied militarily dur-ing those wars.
Prince Hans-Adam II: The Principality of Liechtenstein was one of the few European states which did not recognize the Munich Treaty and later the occupation of Czecho-slovakia by the Third Reich.
Historically one has to say that the Liechtenstein family became a foreign dynasty with the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, as it was the case with the Bavarian, Würt-temberg and other dynasties who before had been part of the Holy Roman Empire and were therefore quite close to the Habsburg dynasty.
www.blisty.cz /art/17123.html   (4101 words)

  
 Namnlöst dokument
Prince Hans Adam II and King Juan Carlos I are fifth cousins.
Prince Hans Adam II and Queen Beatrix are fifth cousins.
Prince Hans Adam II and Rainier III are fifth cousins.
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 My line to Fuerst Hans Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein *1945   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-08)
Wilhelm II Philipp Volland Landgraf von Hessen Vogt in Pforzheim 1469-1509 1472-1537
Franz Josef II Fuerst von und zu Liechtenstein 1938-1989 1906-1989
Hans Adam II Fuerst von und zu Liechtenstein 1989- 1945-
worldroots.com /gitte/famous/h/hansadamliechtensteinline.htm   (239 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Europe | Nazi crimes taint Liechtenstein
"Liechtenstein was definitely not the worst country during that period, but there are a lot of things that could have been improved," said historian and commission member Dan Michman.
Liechtenstein took in about 400 refugees from Nazi-controlled Austria between 1933 and 1945 but turned back 165, the commission said.
Liechtenstein's Prince Franz Josef II died in 1989, and his family has ruled for 300 years.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4443809.stm   (284 words)

  
 Liechtenstein
It is situated in the Alps between Austria and Switzerland and is bounded in the west by the Rhine River.
Liechtenstein - Principality of Liechtenstein National name: Fuerstentum Liechtenstein Ruler: Prince Hans Adam II...
Liechtenstein: Bibliography - Bibliography See P. Raton, Liechtenstein: History and Institutions of the Principality (1970); T. Liechtenstein: History - History The Liechtenstein ruling house is an old Austrian family.
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