Irish Times Political Editor Stephan Collins has an article in the paper arguing that "a second referendum on the Lisbon Treaty is doomed to almost certain defeat." He therefore suggests that the core of the Treaty should be passed through the Irish Parliament, with a far more limited referendum held on certain points of controversy: "If a referendum cannot be won, the only solution is for the D" ...

Alex Salmond’s SNP have a political mandate to hold a referendum on Scottish Independence. With an unprecedented majority in the Scottish Parliament and a manifesto pledge, the question is not if we have to confront this issue, but how. Leaving aside arguments about the Scottish Parliament’s legal authority to legislate on an independence referendum (this

Turkey's parliament approved early on 7 May a bill introduced by the ruling AK Party to reform the constitution, clearing the way for a referendum militant secularists have pledged to block in court.

There might just have been an argument to support the Lisbon Treaty (LT) in the 2008 Irish referendum, although I do not see it myself, but it is impossible to make a valid case to vote in favor of the LT in the forthcoming October 2009 referendum, as this second referendum in itself is a massive betrayal of the democratic will of the Irish people. At the 2008 referendum, which took place a year a...

The government is facing the prospect of a rebellion by Conservative MPs when Parliament votes on proposals for a referendum on Europe.

The Conservatives will fight next year's European Parliament elections by campaigning for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

I am with the Prime Minister when he says the UK Parliament should decide on when the referendum on Scottish independence is held, and what the question should be. Scottish nationalist concerns will be recognised by the UK Parliament holding a referendum on the topic, and by agreeing to their view that only Scottish voters

A referendum on breaking up the UK will be the centre­point of the legislative programme Alex Salmond will reveal to the Scottish Parliament later this week.

Clever Clegg the clog dancer has announced his great idea. Deny people the referendum the Libs promised: a referendum on the EU constitution. Give them a referendum they don’t want on in our out. ...

No, not that referendum. We still don't know what will happen in Ireland where they may well have to vote again, as they got the original answer wrong. There will be no referendum in the UK or in Denmark, the country we are talking about. However, a little while ago the Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, announced that he was thinking of holding one or more referendums (that is the correc...