Cameron pushes his own reforms
Following on from potential Labour leader Alan Johnson's call for the implementation of proportional representation in the House of Commons, Conservative leader David Cameron...
Europe 2009 – Germany
Germany is the most populous country in the European Union, and thus elects 99 MEPs (both in 2004 and 2009). These 99 MEPs are...
Europe 2009 – France
France elects 72 MEPs at the 2009 European election, down from 78 in 2004. The French electorate is divided into eight constituencies, seven covering...
Europe 2009 – Spain
Spain will elect 54 MEPs in 2009, the same number it elected in the last election in 2004. All Spanish MEPs are elected as...
Europe 2009 – Luxembourg
Guest post from our Benelux correspondent, Justin-Paul Sammons.
One of the smallest and wealthiest nations in the EU, as well as one of its six...
Jenkins reheated
With the resurgence of interest in proportional representation in the UK, and calls for an electoral reform referendum at the 2010 general election, I...
Europe 2009 – Sweden
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Sweden joined the European Union in 1995, two years after its formal establishment with the signing of the...
Europe 2009 – Portugal
Portugal has been a member of the European Union since 1987, when they first elected a delegation of MEPs. Portugal votes as a single...
Fremantle wrap
There has been a lot of commentary on the Greens' victory in last weekend's Fremantle by-election result. First of all, it is clearly a...
UK scandal brings flowering of reform ideas
Following the recent scandal in the UK, some senior figures in the Labour government have used the opportunity to push ahead with major democratic...