Saving Europe from the tyranny of referendums

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Series Details No.2, Spring 2006
Publication Date February 2006
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Popular referendums are not the purest form of democracy but an invitation to vote irresponsibly, writes Tøger Seidenfaden, Editor-in-Chief of Denmark's leading weekly magazine Politiken. He outlines here his proposal for a new electoral mechanism that would give Europe's voters a greater say in major EU projects
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Europe's World, No.3, Summer 2006 (Look in Letters to the editor for a response to the article) http://www.europesworld.org/PDFs/Issue3/EW3_Letters_to_the_Editor_FULL_VERSION.pdf
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