No Euro Referendum until at Least 2006
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw today signalled that the governmentâs promised referendum on the new European Constitution would not be held until early 2006.
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BRUSSELS , Dec 27  (IPS) - European Union officials will undoubtedly breathe a  sigh of relief when the final clock  chimes to mark the end of  2004. It certainly has been a tough year for the bloc. But  they  should not sit back and relax too soon - 2005 could be even  tougher.
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Cyprus and Malta clear the final hurdle and are now set to adopt the euro on 1 January 2008.
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Jack Straw revealed an 18-month game plan to win a referendum on the European Union&#39;s first constitution yesterday with a vote scheduled for March or April 2006.
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BERLIN, Dec 20 (IPS) - For the European Union, 2007 was a year rich in  events, but poor on results. Next year promises to be as  turbulent as this one, and probably as unremarkable in its  outcome.
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It would appear that as it stands there will be no F1 Grand Prix at Silverstone in 2005. As previoulsy mentioned today was effectively the deadline for the British Racing Driver&#39;s Club (Silverstone&#39;s owners
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Bernhard Langer hints he is unlikely to captain Europe at the 2006 Ryder Cup.
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Germany wants to be the first country in the EU to ratify the bloc's new constitution - and that probably means without a referendum.
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France will hold a referendum on the European Constitution in the spring, President Jacques Chirac announced today, calling on government ministers to work for a yes vote.
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MEPs call on EU member states to hold simultaneous referendums on the new European Constitution.
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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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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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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says there will likely be a British referendum on an EU treaty in early 2006 but he has declined to confirm reports the vote will be in March of that year.
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UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says a referendum on the EU constitution will take place in 2006 if Labour wins a third term. What impact will the constitution have?
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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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Common sense, Ã¦sthetics, and national character have prevailed; the forces of high modernism and weenie rationalism have received a setback.  The European Union has chosen to no longer pressure people in the British Isles to convert exclusively to the metric system.
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At an historic ceremony in Rome on Friday, European leaders signed the treaty establishing the EU Constitution. Before it takes effect, however, the document must be ratified by all member states -- a process expected to take about two years.