Hungarian Citizenship Referendum Fails
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A referendum in Hungary on giving citizenship to millions of ethnic Hungarians living abroad has failed because of low voter turnout.
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For the Record: 8 November 2004, Monday. In Macedonia, a referendum aimed at blocking plans to grant more local autonomy to the country's ethnic Albanian minority has failed due to low voter turnout.
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Macedonia's national referendum Sunday on abolishing local autonomy for the country's ethnic Albanian minority failed, authorities said.
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Legislation that would have offered a path to citizenship for illegal-immigrant high school graduates who entered the United States as children failed a key test vote in the Senate yesterday.
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Polls opened early Sunday for a vote on whether ethnic Hungarians should get Hungarian citizenship, an issue that is expected to reopen a decades old wound in the country.
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Macedonia's opposition complained of "fraud" after a referendum to overturn EU-backed legislation giving more autonomy to the country's ethnic Albanian minority failed due to low turnout.
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The Dutch government rejected mounting calls for a referendum on Europe's new reform treaty today, two years after voters in the Netherlands killed off the European constitution in a referendum that stunned the EU.
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LONDON/SKOPJE, 8 November 2004 - An anti-Muslim referendum forced by Macedoniaâs nationalist opposition VMRO-DPMNE party against added rights for the ethnic Albania minority is likely to fail due to low voter turnout yesterday.
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SKOPJE, Macedonia -- A referendum bid to block a law that gives Macedonia's Albanian minority more rights failed yesterday, upholding the Western-brokered peace plan that ended ethnic fighting in 2001.
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Voters in Switzerland reject measures to give the children of immigrants the right to become Swiss citizens.
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Swiss voters appear to have rejected proposals to relax the country's strict  naturalisation laws.
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KIEV - Ukraine&#39;s parliament failed Saturday to pass a set of reforms designed to prevent fraud in the next round of presidential balloting.
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MADRID (International Herald Tribune) - The Spanish government on Tuesday dismissed a proposal by the head of the Basque regional government to let Basques vote on whether to continue being part of Spain. The plan presented to Prime Minister JosÃ© Luis RodrÃ­guez Zapatero by Juan JosÃ© Ibarretxe, head of the Basque government, revived debate about the status of the Basque region amid a crackdown by the authorities on the separatist movement's radicals as well as questions of nationhood threatening to dominate general elections in March.  Zapatero rejected the proposed referendum as unconstitutional and said it was a rehash of a similar plan, floated by Ibarretxe in 2005, that was rejected by Parliament. That plan called for Basques to vote on becoming a "free associated state" within Spain and for separate representation before bodies like the European Union. Ibarretxe, a leading member of the Basque Nationalist Party, which governs the region as part of a coalition, denied that a referendum would be illegal and vowed to press ahead with it in October 2008. He said it would be the first step in a "Basque-style Downing Street process," referring to the 1993 declaration by the governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom that paved the way for peace in the British province of Northern Ireland.
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GENEVA - Voters in Switzerland - where one in five residents is foreign-born - rejected liberalizing tough rules on granting citizenship Sunday.    Reflecting the divide between French-speaking areas and the more conservative German region, two government-backed citizenship proposals failed to win support in a majority of the 26 cantons, official results showed by early afternoon...
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Voters in Switzerland  --  where more than one in five is a foreigner  --  rejected proposals to liberalize tough rules on citizenship in a national referendum Sunday.
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BUDAPEST : Voters in Hungary failed to turn out in sufficient numbers to pass a referendum to extend citizenship to millions of ethnic Hungarians living in the region, a motion that split the country and drew ...
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Voting has begun in Hungary in a double referendum on citizenship rights and the health care system.