
Italian PM Matteo Renzi resigns
Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi was roundly defeated in a referendum to change Italy’s constitution.He conceded defeat and said he would submit his resignation to Italy’s president, Sergio Mattarella, on Monday …
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Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi was roundly defeated in a referendum to change Italy’s constitution.He conceded defeat and said he would submit his resignation to Italy’s president, Sergio Mattarella, on Monday …
Interest in pushing for California's secession from the United States has increased after Donald Trump won the presidency. The "Yes California" campaign is backing an independence referendum in support of a constitutional …
The President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev signed the law on holding the referendum to amend the Kyrgyz Constitution, which will be held on December 11, the website of the President said. The reforms would …
Kyrgyzstan's parliament approved plans for a national referendum to be held on December 11 on proposed constitutional reforms, parliament's press office said. The reforms would strengthen the powers of the prime minister. The …
The Parliamentary Committee for Constitutional Law has approved the bill on holding the referendum to amend the Kyrgyz Constitution, which will be held on December 11, the press service of the country's Parliament said. …
Turkey's nationalist opposition is in favor of maintaining the country's parliamentary system but is not against holding a referendum on introducing an executive presidency, its leader Devlet Bahceli said. …
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will send a seven-member “assessment mission”, headed by the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Aleksandar Nikoloski, to the 26 September referendum …
Azerbaijan’s Central Election Commission has approved a schedule of main activities and events on holding referendum assigned for September 26, 2016, in connection with amendments to the country’s Constitution, said the …
Amendments to the constitution have been proposed in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree on submitting the draft Referendum Act “On making amendments to Azerbaijan’s …
A turnout on the referendum in Abkhazia, according to the results on 18:00, was less than 1% (0.99%), the head of the Central Election Commission of the Republic, Batal Tabagua, said. …
Near a zero turnout in today's referendum was not a surprise for the government of Abkhazia, the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic, Shamil Adzynba, said. ‘’The …
A referendum on the early presidential election is held in Abkhazia. The voters will be asked to answer one question - "Do you think it is necessary to hold snap presidential election in the Republic of Abkhazia?", TASS reports. …
Britain leaving the European Union will be a serious test of the EU's unity, and may affect the position of the West in relation to Russia, calling the extension of the anti-Russian sanctions in January 2017 into question, the experts of the US company Stratfor said. According to the experts, a single EU front on the issue of anti-Russian sanctions has cracked even before the Brexit vote. At the same time they pointed out that some Russia-friendly countries, including Italy, Greece, and Hungary, called for greater discussion on extending sanctions against Russia. "Of course, the pro-Russia sentiment has not sufficed to break the EU unanimity in an actual vote. Nonetheless, it reveals growing uncertainty over the future of the sanctions – regardless of whether Moscow complies with the Continent's demands to implement the Minsk accords," Stratfor experts noted.
The majority of the French citizens support the idea of holding a national referendum on a further membership of their country in the European Union, but still want their country to remain within a united Europe - these are the results of the …
A senior MEP has said English would be dropped as an EU official language once the UK leaves the bloc, unless rules are changed. "If we don't have the UK, we don't have English," Polish centre-right MEP Danuta Huebner …
US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Britain and the European Union to manage their divorce responsibly for the sake of global markets and citizens, a day before he was to become the first senior American official to visit …
Slovakia's far-right People's Party launched a petition for a referendum on the country's future in the EU. For a petition to be seen as adequate to launch a referendum, the party should collect 350,000 signatures from the …
The UK decision to leave the European Union increased the volatility in the economy and this factor will be taken into account when deciding on the indexation of pensions in 2016, the Russian Deputy Finance Minister, Airat …
US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet the European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels and the British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond in London on Monday, a senior …
A parliamentary petition calling for a second referendum has attracted more than a million signatures, The Guardian reports. By Saturday morning, more than 1 million people had signed up, 10 times the number needed for the issue to be …