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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The Hungarian parliament voted to withdraw the country's 300 troops from Iraq by the end of the year, rejecting a government initiative that would have prolonged the deployment until March 2005.
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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 fire from neighboring governments.
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Hungary becomes the second country to ratify the European Union's constitution, after joining in May.
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Swiss voters appear to have rejected proposals to relax the country's strict  naturalisation laws.
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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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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 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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Swiss voters rejected proposals on Sunday to make it easier for the children and grandchildren of immigrants to get Swiss passports, a victory for the nation&#39;s right wing.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany has won a parliamentary vote of confidence, which he had called to gauge his mandate for continuing unpopular austerity measures after his party was drubbed in local elections at the weekend.
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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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JosÃ© Manuel Barroso, the incoming European commission president, today failed in a bid to appease key European parties demanding that the justice minister designate, Rocco Buttiglione, be removed.
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Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany has to convince the Hungarian electorate he can be trusted again after a rocky start since taking office.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany has won a vote of confidence in parliament, which he had called to gauge his mandate for continuing unpopular austerity measures after his party was drubbed in local elections at the weekend.
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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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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.