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Topic: Wales (European Parliament constituency)

	About Wales - Welsh History
		The Romans occupied the whole of Wales, where they built roads and forts, mined gold and conducted commerce, but their interest in it was limited, because of the difficult geography and shortage of flat agricultural land.
		Wales remained Christian, and the "age of the saints" (approximately 500-700 AD) was marked by the establishment of monastic settlements throughout the country, by religious leaders such as David, Illtud and Teilo.
		Wales was divided into a number of separate territories, and for a single man to rule the whole country at this period was rare, the first to do so being Rhodri Mawr, during the 9th century AD.
	www.walesonline.com /info/history.shtml (991 words)

	BBC Wales - Living in Wales - Living in Wales - moving to Wales - pronouncing Welsh - new to Wales
		Wales is governed from two directions: from the UK Parliament at Westminster, and from the National Assembly for Wales.
		Parliament continues to make primary legislation (law) covering Wales, and the UK Government remains responsible for defence and national security, foreign policy, home affairs, economic policy, employment legislation, social security and broadcasting.
		It is possible to have an MP and an AM in the same constituency from different political parties (as was the case in Monmouthshire until the 2005 election).
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/livinginwales/sites/aboutwales/pages/law.shtml (675 words)

	Wales (European Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wales is a constituency of the European Parliament.
		The constituency corresponds to the country of Wales, one of the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom.
		Category: European Parliament constituencies in the United Kingdom
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wales_(European_Parliament_constituency) (115 words)

	European Parliament UK Office - Elections Facts
		Elections to the European Parliament are held every five years.
		The European Parliament was directly elected for the first time in 1979.
		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.
	www.europarl.org.uk /guide/Gelectionfacts.htm (278 words)

	BBC - Action Network - What do MEPs do in the European Parliament?
		There are currently 626 members of the European Parliament but, with the recent expansion of the European Union to include 10 new member states, the number of MEPs is being increased to 732 members.
		This procedure of approval by the parliament and the council is called ‘co-decision’ and applies to various fields, including the environment, consumer protection, and the free movement of workers.
		There are three official constituency weeks in the parliament calendar but both the national parties and the constituents expect MEPs to spend more time than this in their constituency.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ican/A2584497 (1353 words)

	parliament
		Although Parliament has a key role in passing laws and checking on the role of Government, it is by no means the only institution involved in the process.
		Parliament is also heavily involved in implementing EU law in the UK.
		Parliament has the opportunity to refuse this secondary legislation or, in some cases, approve it before it takes effect.
	www.parliamentary.org /parliament.aspx?id=2 (1909 words)

	Roger Williams
		European law is based upon the treaties that initially set up the process of integration and further treaties that were signed to expand the remit of the EU.
		The European Commission is the body responsible for implementing legislation passed by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers, and as such is often compared to a European civil service.
		The Commission is ultimately accountable to the European Parliament, which has the power to sack it (as was the case when Jacques Santer was president of the Commission in 1999).
	www.rogerwilliams.org.uk /html/parliament/european_union.html (2549 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Wales: The Referendum of 1997
		Notwithstanding the defeat of the 1979 referendum, the people of Wales were not yet finished in their bid for a measure of home rule.
		In an edition of the Guardian (June, 1994), Glenys Kinnock, the Welsh-speaking wife of the former leader of the Labour Party, received great acclaim at her election to the European Parliament at Brussels with a huge majority.
		Plaid Cymru, the Party of Wales did not receive a mention, yet by that time political intrigue, mistrust, and outright misrule by what is known as the system of quangos (non-elected government bodies) by 1995, had the effect of catapulting Plaid into second place among the political parties in Wales.
	www.britannia.com /wales/whist30.html (702 words)

	Women and Equality Unit \| Women in Public Life \| Women in Politics
		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).
		There is evidence in the newly devolved institutions in Scotland and Wales that the relatively high number of women have had a discernable impact on shaping their policy agendas.
		¹Twinning: Constituencies with the same likelihood of being won by a political party are paired and then a male candidate is placed in one constituency and a female candidate in the other.
	www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk /public_life/parliament.htm (675 words)

	Welsh elections - party breakdown \| Special Reports \| Guardian Unlimited Politics
		She is currently Wales' commissioner for racial equality and is running as Labour's first choice for the Mid and West Wales regional seat.
		As Wales' deputy first minister, with responsibilities for economic development, Michael German, 54, has been dogged by allegations of "sleaze".
		It believes having the formula based on the number of people living in Wales, rather than on need, is of considerable disadvantage to the country.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /wales/page/0,,897504,00.html (1017 words)

	European Parliament Elections 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Winnie Ewing went on to become the Mother of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and as acting Presiding Officer uttered the memorable words 'The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25 th day of March in the year 1707, is hereby reconvened'.
		A Board member of the European Movement, he is a regional organiser for the pro-euro Scotland in Europe campaign and established the vote16 campaign planning to reduce the voting age to 16.
		He had served in the European parliament twenty years before, having been elected as MEP for Mid Scotland in Fife by 7,487 votes in 1979 before losing the seat to Labour's Alex Falconer by 27,166 votes in 1984.
	www.alba.org.uk /euro04/euro04cand.html (2618 words)

	Parlianet - UK Parliament
		The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislature of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
		Parliament is the legislative branch of Government and at the head of Government is the Prime Minister.
		Its power was once equal to that of the Commons but this was limited to delaying money bills for 30 days by the Parliament Act 1911 and other bills for two years-in 1948 reduced to one year by the Parliament Act 1949.
	www.parlianet.com /addservices/ukparliament.asp (849 words)

	National Assembly for Wales: Subject Index: The Richard Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Parliament for Wales Campaign has been in existence for nearly fifty years and during this time has sought to obtain a Welsh Parliament with tax-varying powers and the ability to pass primary legislation.
		The Parliament for Wales Campaign therefore believes that Wales should not be denied a devolutionary body similar to those in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
		The Parliament for Wales Campaign would like to see staff and work of the Courts Service Agency to be transferred to the Welsh Civil Service and that staff working on of the Courts Service Agency in Cheshire be transferred to the Northern Circuit.
	www.richardcommission.gov.uk /content/evidence/responses/parlfw (3618 words)

	Law.com - European Commission Sparks Software Patent Debate
		Parliament's proposal had been strongly influenced by the intense lobbying and public relations campaign of the open-source community, an increasingly vocal -- and increasingly effective -- group of software developers, programmers, and activists who believe that software code should be open, not protected, so that anyone can modify or improve it.
		In May 2004, the council removed the parliament's patent-limiting amendments and went back to a draft that was close to the commission's original proposal.
		The bigger worry is that European courts may be hearing the debate, as well, and patents that were just a little uncertain three years ago are now a lot uncertain.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1114506316658 (1842 words)

	Quota Database
		The Liberal Democrats implemented a "zipping" system on their candidate lists for the European election in 1999 which were conducted using List-PR, but did not use the zipping system in the European Parliament election of 2002.
		Scottish Parliament: In the 1999 election, women were elected to 48 of 129 seats (37.2%) in parliament.This increased slightly to 51 women and 39.5 percent in 2003.
		National Assembly for Wales: In the 2003 election, women were elected to 30 of 60 seats (50%) in parliament.
	www.quotaproject.org /displayCountry.cfm?CountryCode=GB (434 words)

	Projects: 22nd September 2004 - European Parliament Project: MEPs Replies (UK)
		The group I belong to in the European Parliament (Greens/European Free Alliance) is against the ban in general.
		This position is based upon the belief in a multicultural European society which holds up the values of tolerance and peaceful coexistence, and which strives to achieve a balance between personal freedom and respect and equality for all.
		I have just been elected chairman of the European Parliament's cross-party Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup, where I am sure the ban will be the subject of much discussion, and I shall continue to raise the issue whenever possible in the European Parliament.
	www.prohijab.net /english/projects-MEPs-replies-uk.htm (4914 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions \| The Campaign for an English Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In spite of having their own Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, Scottish and Welsh MPs are still entitled to attend the Westminster Parliament and vote on matters affecting only England, such as health, education and transport, etc. However, English MPs are not entitled to vote on matters affecting Scotland or Wales.
		Not one of the MPs in the Commons represents the country his/her constituency is in, be it England, Scotland or Wales.
		But if they got their own parliament again, then they could point to it knowing it was originally founded in 1153 and existed as the very Mother of Parliaments and the seed bed of modern democracy, and proudly say, that’s part of what we’ve achieved as the English nation.
	www.thecep.org.uk /questions.shtml (2544 words)

	Sian James MP - About the UK Parliament
		The Westminster Parliament is probably one of the oldest representative assemblies in the world, dating from the 13th Century.
		All Members of Parliament, like myself, sit in the House of Commons, which is the elected part of the United Kingdom’s bi-cameral Parliament.
		Committees are small groups of Members of Parliament which are set up in order to discuss, examine or advise upon specific public policy issues or pieces of legislation.
	www.sianjamesmp.co.uk /index.php?page=parliament (748 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions
		The European Union consists of 25 countries in Europe, encompassing some 450 million people, that have come together to co-operate in areas where it is beneficial to do so.
		The European Parliament is one of the EU's three main decision-making bodies, and the only one that is directly elected by the people of the EU.
		Wales is one constituency, so Jonathan Evans is your Conservative representative, no matter where you live in Wales.
	www.jonathanevans.org.uk /faq.html (570 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| BBC Parliament \| Wales: First Minister's Questions (24/02/04)
		Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru, South Wales Central) asked whether he agreed with Tony Blair that headteachers should be given the power to undertake drug-testing schools.
		The First Minister said the opposite was true as BT couldn't afford to extend the programme to rural Wales without the investment form the Government.
		Helen Mary Jones (Plaid Cymru, Mid and West Wales) asked why small progress was being made in extending NHS dentistry in Wales.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/programmes/bbc_parliament/3518015.stm (1074 words)

	European Parliament constituency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In five European Union Member States (Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom), the national territory is divided into a number of constituencies for European elections.
		Currently, the German speaking community of Belgium are the most represented in the EU Parliament with one seat for their 71,000 population, while the people of Sardinia and Sicily are the least represented, with only one seat per 943,000 people.
		The number of seats per constituency varies from 1 in the German speaking community of Belgium, to 23 in the north-west region of Italy.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/European_Parliament_constituency (235 words)

	AF - Against Parliament - Scottish & Welsh Nationalists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In Scotland and Wales the electorate continue to be offered the "choice" of voting for their respective ruling classes (or would-be ruling classes!) in the form of the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru.
		When the British Parliament overturned the decision the response wasn't the mass (peaceful, democratic, constitutional, etc.) rebellion the SNP would have liked, but a dull resignation and subsequent massive drop in support for them.
		Wales has been hard hit by the crisis of British capitalism and is one of the poorest regions in the whole of Western Europe.
	flag.blackened.net /af/ace/ap_nats.html (1938 words)

	European Parliament UK Office - European Elections
		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.
		In Britain the Conservatives were the big winners, polling 36% of the votes and gaining 36 seats in the European Parliament.
		The UK Independence Party with 3 MEPs and the Greens with 2 MEPs were main beneficiaries of proportional representation, winning seats in the European Parliament for the first time.
	www.europarl.org.uk /guide/textonly/Gelecttx.htm (634 words)

	Wales on the Web: The Political process
		Each constituency is featured and the results are compared to past general, European and Assembly election results in Wales.
		The report is a study into the first elections of the National Assembly of Wales, by Richard Wyn Jones and Dafydd Trystan of the Institute of Welsh Politics at Aberystwyth University.
		They include general election results from 1983 to 2001, by-elections from 1979, European Parliament Elections 1979-1999, Referendum on the establishment of the Welsh Assembly and the results of the National Assembly Elections in 1999 and 2003.
	www.walesontheweb.org /cayw/index/en/324/9 (1097 words)

	Blackwood, Caerphilly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blackwood (Welsh: Coed Duon) is a small town in South Wales on the River Sirhowy.
		The South Wales leaders, John Frost, Zephaniah Williams (a Blackwood man) and William Williams met regularly at the Coach and Horses in Blackwood planning their march on Newport that was to coincide with a british wide 'revolution' against the govenment in 1839.
		However the South Wales Movement were the only ones to march and the Insurrection failed with the leaders being sentenced to death, later commuted to deportation to Tasmania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blackwood,_Wales (553 words)

	The Gibraltar Eurovote
		Lord Bethell moved an amendment to the 1998 European Parliamentary Elections Bill in the House of Lords to make a provision for the right to vote, however it was defeated by the Labour Government, who were supported by the Liberal Democrats.
		The Court has found that the United Kingdom is in violation of the European Convention of Human Rights as a result of its failure to make arrangements to enable the people of Gibraltar to vote at elections for the European Parliament.
		The European Court of Justice in its Luxembourg ruling said it was up to Britain to decide for itself whether to allow non-EU citizens to vote in European elections, saying there was no specific definition in EU treaties on who was entitled to vote.
	www.gibnet.com /eurovote (1481 words)

	Elections in the United Kingdom (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and in which electorates choose local government officials.
		The overall effect was the that the Act increased the size of the electorate to 32% of the adult male population.
		Under the system, of the candidates standing in a given constituency, the one who receives the highest number of votes (a plurality) is elected.
	elections-in-the-united-kingdom.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (2714 words)

	Government of Wales Bill
		Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
		The Assembly constituencies are the parliamentary constituencies in Wales.
		The Assembly constituency member for the Assembly constituency is to be
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200506/cmbills/121/06121.1-7.html (2201 words)

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