Sentences with phrase «calling referenda on»

And should National Front leader Marine Le Pen be elected president in France and call a referendum on EU membership, then «her government will become Merkel's antagonist.»

«Strike4Repeal,» as the day of action is called, hopes to pressure the government into calling a referendum on the constitutional ban.

Almost immediately after the vote, Catalonian President Carles Puigdemont signed into local law a bill to call the referendum on October 1, 2017, according to the BBC.

Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou proposed calling a referendum on a private sector debt - restructuring plan agreed with the creditors as part of a second bailout package in October 2011.

In this steady but unglamorous growth environment, two politically - driven events dominated the quarter in the UK: the decision by the Conservative government to call a referendum on 23 June to determine whether the UK will remain in the European Union (EU) or leave, and the Budget on 16 March.

Arnott said that the manifesto, which was launched less than an hour before the national silence to remember the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing, states that the public would be able to call a referendum on different issues.

A cross-party group of MPs is launching a nationwide campaign to force Gordon Brown to call a referendum on the EU treaty.

Academic research on the reasons parties and government call referendums on the EU suggests that in many ways, hoping a difficult situation will go away is precisely what Cameron wants his speech to achieve.

Where I think Labour really missed an opportunity was to bring the Liberals into its first administration and fulfil its pledge to call a referendum on PR.

We could have a second referendum (the UK parliament can call a referendum on anything it likes), but a vote to reject the negotiated terms would leave us in legal limbo.

(CNN) Former British Prime Minister David Cameron says he doesn't regret calling a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union — but wishes the result had gone the other way.

In 2014, Council Member Lander sponsored a bill to call a referendum on the issue.

Before David Cameron called a referendum on whether the UK should remain in the European Union, the...

Before David Cameron called a referendum on whether the UK should remain in the European Union, the Conservative party always had a strong claim to be «the party of business».

It comes as a Labour MP and ex-minister Gisela Stuart, who helped draw up the original constitution, berated the government for not calling a referendum on the treaty.

If Cameron will call a referendum on a Brexit, a British exit from the European Union, it will make both Europe and the UK nervous.

Mr Salmond has said he will use his majority in the Scottish Parliament to call a referendum on independence.

Team up with Labour and form a government to call a referendum on electoral reform?

Good to see that The Sunday Telegraph is arguing that «Target Number One» must be the Labour Party's Manifesto pledge to call a referendum on the new EU constitution.

Mr Brown has proved open to reform of the system in the past, with proposals in February to call a referendum on introducing alternative vote (AV) as a means of choosing MPs.

The story changed over the weekend, as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras surprised all by calling a referendum on whether to accept the European terms.

As prime minister David Cameron called a referendum on the country's place in Europe, Heathrow chief executive John Holland - Kaye led calls for Britain to stay in the union.

Not exact matches

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Catalonia Sunday to call for unity, voicing their opposition to last week's non-binding and referendum on independence on October 1 that was declared illegal by the Spanish government and constitutional court.

When it came to that last question, there was plenty of anger to go around, with many complaining about David Cameron's decision to call the referendum, others infuriated at the weak Leave campaign, and still others offering less than polite commentary on segments of their fellow citizens.

Hours after the call for a referendum, reports about long lines for cash machines started appearing on social media.

The prime minister called a national referendum for July 5 on the conditions of a loan from the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

The party was growing increasingly restless over his inability to come up with the so - called winning conditions for another referendum on sovereignty.

Italian elections are due to take place during the first half of 2018, and have the potential to deliver another political upset, although recently there have been signs that populist parties — most notably the Five Star Movement, which according to polls enjoys similar levels of support among Italian voters as the ruling Democratic Party — are toning down their calls for a referendum on Italy's membership of the eurozone.

April 2018 — Zuckerberg agrees to give testimony in front of US politicians — but continues to ignore calls to appear before UK politicians to answer questions about the role of fake news on its platform and the potential use of Facebook data in the UK's Brexit referendum

Both houses of the Maine State Legislature voted Wednesday to overturn Gov. Paul LePage's (R.) veto of marijuana legalization legislation, putting the state on the path to finally implementing a 2016 referendum calling for legal recreational weed.

LONDON — Two of the biggest investors in Scotland on Wednesday warned of the consequences of a «Yes» vote for independence there amid opinion polls showing next week's referendum has become too close to call.

The most recent five - day stretch of gains came despite pundits calling for some selling early last week on worries about the referendum results in Italy last week — and the effect it may have on Italy's struggling banking sector — and the likelihood that the Federal Reserve may well begin to tighten the monetary reins this week.

PARIS (AP)-- The leader of France's far - right National Front set the tone for her campaign for the French presidency Saturday, calling to fight an Islamist «offensive» and promising to hold a nationwide referendum on European Union membership if she is...

He also takes a look at the implications of the political situation in the United Kingdom where the government is facing calls to hold a second Scottish referendum as it prepares to fire the starting pistol on the process of leaving the European Union.

Bernier called for a national referendum on Senate abolition.

... came up with an idea that led to the foundation of a company called Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that went on to claim a major role in the Leave campaign for Britain's EU membership referendum, and later became a key figure in digital operations during Donald Trump's election campaign.

On 23 June 2016 a referendum was held in which a narrow majority of voters in the United Kingdom (nearly 52 %) voted in favour of leaving the European Union, the so - called «Brexit».

Orban has called for a referendum on October 2 at which voters are expected to back the government and reject any future quotas.

Former Barca boss Guardiola, who is now in charge of Premier League leaders Manchester City, also called on Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to answer questions after violent scenes broke out during Catalonia's unofficial independence referendum.

Although a call for a referendum to decide the path of Yunker farm development has become a campaign issue for the April 1 election, trustees said they would not make their approval contingent on a referendum.

AIMS Ireland calls on the government to set a date for a referendum on the 8th amendment without delay.

From outgoing Greek Prime Minister Papandreou's torpedoing of the G20 by his «bolt from the blue» referendum call, swiftly withdrawn under outraged pressure from the Merkel - Sarkozy tandem, to Italy's Berlusconi teetering on the edge, then announcing he will resign and abandon his attempts to cling to power, to Sarkozy himself introducing larger than expected «austerity» cuts despite the upcoming presidential election in 2012 — politics is back.

In the light of last night's vote in the House of Commons on whether or not to hold a referendum to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, Unlock Democracy is calling on Parliament to decide new rules over whether legislation has constitutional implications or not and how such decisions should be decided.

All of which rather raises the question of why Cameron walked on to a stage in January 2013 and called the referendum in the first place.

The Liberal Democrats have walked out of the House of Commons after their calls for a referendum on Europe were rejected.

The prime minister's attitude has been to take it on the chin; in last year's Queen's Speech debate, for example, he claimed he was «relaxed» about the amendment calling for an EU referendum law.

The prime minister also faced questions on Europe from opposition backbenchers, including the DUP's Nigel Dodds who repeated calls for a referendum and former business minister Pat McFadden.

Stevens called on the government to recognise the strength of public commitment to the NHS and make good on the EU referendum battle bus commitment of # 350m a week for the service.

Third, it called for a referendum on the constitutional future of Catalonia (which was suspended by the Spanish Constitutional Court).

AFTER more than two years of implying she was on the brink of calling a second independence referendum, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has backed down.