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...students passed (by an 82-percent margin) a referendum that called for the addition of an optional wind energy fee to their termbills. Administrators may have swiftly vetoed the initiative, but it ultimately resulted in the creation of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)-backed Green Crimson Fund to educate students and bring $10,000 worth of renewable energy to campus. Students voted green again in 2006, demanding FAS adopt emissions reduction targets through another College-wide referendum. Even more widely supported than the wind referendum, this one garnered a “yes” from 88 percent...
...saga is over for good. If the treaty is to take effect in 2009, it's got to be ratified by all member states. And in at least one country, Ireland - and possibly in several others - the new treaty will be put to a public vote via a referendum...
...That's déjà vu, but with a difference. Three years ago a similar all-night E.U. marathon session ended in a celebration of the vaunted E.U. constitution. Then French President Jacques Chirac made the controversial decision to put the constitution to a referendum - which he lost on May 29, 2005, setting the stage for the Dutch rejection several days later...
...Governments will be desperate to avoid making a similar mistake," says Daniel Gros, the director of the Center for European Policy Studies. That's why British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insists that the treaty be ratified by the British Parliament, not a popular referendum. Opinion polls show that E.U.'s most euro-sceptic nation would reject the treaty as convincingly as French and Dutch voters...
...anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the genesis of the present Union. To the horror of Euro-skeptics around the world, the Union—which started in Rome with six countries in an economic alliance—has since grown relentlessly, adapting and surviving more than one failed referendum. In fact, the French and Dutch in 2005 were not the first to reject the EU; the Norwegians, for example, repeatedly voted against joining. The main problem with the 2005 vote was that many national constituencies confounded the EU constitution with a plebiscitary vote on their governments. For instance, most...