Section: The United Kingdom
Dutch vote highlights EU’s problem with voters, UK beware
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s long-running problem with voters just got a little worse after the Dutch rejected an agreement on closer EU ties with Ukraine, highlighting the difficulties of further European integration. …read more Source:...
Dutch EU no vote has worrying lessons for anti-Brexit campaign
Referendum on EU/Ukraine treaty brought Eurosceptics out to voice their discontent but pro-EU voters stayed at homeThe Dutch have said no in another EU referendum. Asked to vote on an EU treaty with Ukraine that paves the way for deeper ties, Dutch voters gave an overwhelmingly negative answer. Almost two-thirds of voters, 61%, rejected the...
What was the Dutch referendum all about?
Result will send geopolitical tremors through Ukraine and holds lessons for Brexit campaigns …read more Source: Financial...
Nigel Farage tells politicians not to intervene in other countries’ EU debates – then campaigns in Holland
Hypocrite in hypocrisy shock. Oh, Nigel. You raging hypocrite. There was a European referendum in Holland yesterday, which was quite different to ours. But the result did give the EU a bit of a bloody nose by rejecting a new treaty with Ukraine. Nigel Farage loves referendums. He has spent rather a long time campaigning to have one in the UK. And...
‘The beginning of the END for the EU’ Brexit fans rejoice as Dutch vote humiliates union
THE Netherlands could follow Britain out of the European Union after rejecting a Brussels plot to work with Ukraine, says the deputy leader of UKIP. …read more Source:...
Netherlands rejects EU-Ukraine partnership
Description Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte casts his vote Credits BART MAAT/AFP/Getty Images Dutch referendum seen as a wider test of anti-European sentiment in run-up to UK vote in June One-Minute Read Thursday, April 7, 2016 – 9:35am …read more Source: The...
The Netherlands just said no to Europe. Will we?
Different countries have different politics, but the Dutch referendum may exacerbate fears about turnout and negative campaigning. We should always be wary of over-interpreting the commonalities between different countries’ politics. As the current convulsions in the US demonstrate in ghastly technicolour, every democracy has its own unique...
Dutch voters overwhelming reject Ukraine-EU treaty
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch voters have overwhelmingly rejected a Ukraine-European Union treaty on closer political and economic ties, in a rebuke to their government and to the European Union establishment. …read more Source:...
Poroshenko: Ukraine to continue moving towards EU despite Dutch vote
TOKYO (Reuters) – Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko said on Thursday his country will continue moving towards the European Union despite a resounding rejection by Dutch voters of a treaty on closer ties between the European body and Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Dutch voters reject closer EU links to Ukraine in referendum
Poll may be invalid if 30% turnout is not achieved but outcome shows strength of Eurosceptic feeling in the NetherlandsThe Dutch government said on Wednesday it may have to reconsider ratifying a treaty on closer European Union ties with Ukraine after a vast majority of voters rejected the agreement in a non-binding referendum. The outcome was...
