Hungarian Referendums Fails
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6 December 2004 -- Preliminary official results show that voters failed to approve a referendum on whether to give ethnic Hungarians living outside the country the right to become Hungarian citizens.
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International efforts to determine Kosovo&#39;s future suffered an apparent setback today as the province&#39;s Serb minority largely boycotted parliamentary elections.
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BUDAPEST -- Hungary's prime minister asked parliament yesterday to hold a vote of confidence in his government, which suffered major losses in municipal elections after weeks of protests demanding that he resign for lying about the economy. Ferenc Gyurcsany, asking that the vote be held Friday, said he recognized that it would be about him as well as his government's ...
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A referendum bid to block a law that  gives Macedonia's Albanian minority more rights failed on  Sunday, upholding a Western-brokered peace plan which ended  ethnic fighting in 2001.
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HungaryÂs president made the request on national television as the polls closed in local government elections.
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Voting has begun in Hungary in a double referendum on citizenship rights and the health care system.
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Monitors say a referendum on extending the rule of Belarus' authoritarian leader fell short of democratic standards.
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Hungary votes in local elections two weeks after violent protests over the prime minister's admission that he lied.
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Hungary's new prime minister looked to  have scored a major victory on Sunday when the opposition  failed to garner enough votes to pass a referendum giving  citizenship to millions of Hungarians abroad.
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The failure of the cash and shares transaction, which would have given the Austrian government an effective blocking minority over the combined group's Austrian operations, comes as a severe blow to both ...
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Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany may call a vote of confidence in his government after heavy losses in local elections and an appeal by the president for parliament to consider his position.
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The results of the referendum held in Hungary on 5 December defuse the potential danger of new tensions among European states with ethnic Hungarian minorities.
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A national referendum to scrap Portugal's strict abortion law appeared headed to defeat Sunday because of low turnout, even though a majority of voters approved it.
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German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has asked his Hungarian counterpart whether he could get a passport if Hungary votes to grant dual citizenship to ethnic Hungarians in a referendum on December 5. ...
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Hungary&#39;s double referendum on whether to grant dual citizenship to ethnic Hungarians abroad and whether to stop the privatisation of health care facilities has failed due a low voter turnout, the Central Election Office announced Monday.
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"Do you agree that the Parliament of the Republic of Hungary should make a law about introducing the siesta?" Hungary's eight million voters may soon be asked to answer that question after the National Election ... via Scotsman.com News
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RIGA, Latvia: Latvia's referendum on national security legislation seemed headed for failure despite a plea by President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, whose second term of office ends at midnight Saturday, to go to the ... via International Herald Tribune