Unions call for referendum on EU treaty
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Union delegates today added to pressure on Gordon Brown over the EU reform treaty by backing calls for a referendum.
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Germany could hold a referendum to approve the European Union&#39;s new constitution if changes can be made to its own basic law in time for such a vote, a government spokesman said Monday.
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Workers for London Underground have voted to authorize a strike to press demands for a new contract and a retroactive pay hike, the RMT union said Monday.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday he hopes the imminent signing of the new European Union treaty would shift the bloc's focus away from an "institutional debate".
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The question to be asked in the referendum on the EU constitution will be "Should the United Kingdom approve the treaty establishing a constitution for the European Union?", the Government said.
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Nurses in England are being sent voting papers, asking if they wish to be balloted on taking industrial action.
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Sir Menzies Campbell calls for a referendum on Britain's EU membership, ahead of the Lib Dem conference.
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The Sun tabloid, Britain&#39;s best-selling daily, made an impassioned plea Monday for a referendum on the new EU treaty in a front-page editorial ahead of a major speech by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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The government has braced Monday for the start of a bruising battle to ratify a controversial new European treaty, dismissing demands for a referendum likely to reject the pact.
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Britain could hold a referendum on a new European Union treaty if needed, future prime minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday, fuelling reports of tension with current premier Tony Blair before a crunch EU summit.
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European Parliament members issued a declaration Wednesday demanding the European Union ban the import of seal products to protest Canada's seal hunt.
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The tiny southern English village of East Stoke is set to vote on whether or not it should have a referendum on the new European Union treaty, The Daily Telegraph reported on Thursday.
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Britain plans to hold its referendum on the new European Union (EU) constitution in March 2006, the British Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported Sunday.
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TONY BLAIR was today set to urge unionists and republicans to do the deal to transform Northern Irelandâs deadlocked peace process.
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Travel: Airline travellers could face disruption at Christmas as union confirms call for ballot on industrial action.
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Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder urged voters here to approve the proposed European Union constitution in Spain's weekend referendum.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair rejected Monday calls for a referendum on a new EU treaty agreed last week, saying it did not go as far as the bloc&#39;s doomed constitution which it replaced.