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This is what the parties are offering young voters

The last Prime Minister’s Questions are over and election day is in four weeks. Time to make up your mind who to vote for! We have been out there discovering what the parties have to offer young voters:

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Can Students tell David Cameron from Colin Firth?

After we found out that more than 50 per cent of 17 to 24 year-olds are not registered to vote, Robert Powell and Stefanie Linhardt went out to find out whether students at the University of Westminster can tell David Cameron from Colin Firth. Part two of our politics trilogy.

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Are students not interested in politics?

For as long as there are universities – students have always been associated with politics. But a new report by the Electoral Commission shows that this might be changing – as more than 50 per cent of all young voters are not registered to vote in the upcoming general elections. Stefanie Linhardt has been finding [...]

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The end to Ukraine’s Orange Revolution?

Ukraine’s presidential election is likely to result in an end to pro-Western ‘Orange’-minded politics, according to exit polls. The country went to the ballot boxes on Sunday, February 7th, to decide on their new president. It seems to be certain that the pro-Moscow opposition leader, Viktor Yanukovych, was able to secure the majority of votes – [...]

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Libel fees to be capped

Finally a libel law revision: “Jack Straw proposes capping libel law fees at 10%” If lawyers earn less, the ‘no-win, no-fee’ business is less lucrative, and libel tourism might ease off. A more in depth account of how libel laws are functioning in the UK will follow soon. Until then, I leave you with the [...]

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The Lisbon Treaty – actually set in stone

The eurosceptic Czech President Vaclav Klaus was the last European leader to sign the Lisbon Treaty today. As a result, the EU reform treaty is officially ratified. Four weeks after the second Irish referendum, and after the Tories claimed to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, if they won the general elections and the [...]

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Step by step towards ratification

After the official signing of the Lisbon Treaty by Polish President Lech Kaczynski, yesterday, there is only one country left with the ability to jinx it. Czech President Václav Klaus remains the sole EU-head of state not to have signed, and thus, ratified the Reform Treaty. On Friday, Mr Klaus announced that he would not give his [...]

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Lisbon Treaty – Future still in jeopardy

Even though the Irish voted ‘yes’ on the Lisbon Treaty on Friday, the Treaty’s future is still unclear. Not only Poland and the Czech Republic have yet to ratify it – the British Conservatives are champing at the bit to challenge the Reform Treaty’s ratification if/when in power. Tory-Leader and Shadow Prime Minister David Cameron [...]

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Ireland has voted

Since the 21 century, the European Union found itself in a gridlock. First, the Constitutional Treaty was rejected by the French and Dutch populations. Then even the ‘rescue-option’ the Lisbon Treaty failed – although it did not have to be approved by the majority of countries (including previously ‘No’-voting France and Netherlands). Still, the Treaty, [...]

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