How can my vote for the MEPs (European Parliament) have an influence?

Dear Canadians, Brits, and other citizens of parliamentary democracies: Inspired by this comment, how important is party affiliation to your vote? In other words, how much of an asshat does your party's parliamentary candidate have to be to force you...

Following action by John Mann MP and a vote in the House of Commons, MEPs including the BNP’s Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons will be denied Parliamentary passes and access to House of Commons facilities thus putting an end to a 20 year precedent...

WHAT THE EU TREATY OF LISBON DOES (legally accurate) * National Platform EU Research and Information Centre 15.02.2008 This document has been prepared by the National Platform EU Research and Information Centre, 24 Crawford Ave., Dublin 9; Tel: 01-8...

November 5, 2006 Where Plan A Left Ahmad Chalabi By DEXTER FILKINS 1. London, August 2006 Many miles away in a more dangerous place the dream is ending badly. The bodies pile up. Good people stream to the borders. Leaders pile money onto planes. The...

By The Numbers On September 11th, 2001 4 Flights were hijacked. American Airlines Flight 11 which left Boston's Logan Airport bound for Los Angeles before being piloted into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.American Airlines Flight 77 which...

Abdullah Ocalan,’s last interview. Q: What exactly is your situation today? Are you really free or not? Abdulla Ocalan: We are living in a very strange situation, almost unprecedented. I am neither free nor a hostage. I am almost the only man for...

I don't mind someone else from NDA like Manohar Parrikar or Nitish Kumar (ex-NDA) becoming India's PM. But not Modi of all people. As per opinion polls BJP is almost likely to win and I am really worried. I am donating to AAP to help support their campaign...

In the early career, Dr Subramanian Swamy was assosiated with the Janta Party, however he was expelled in late 1970s.   Dr Subramanian Swamy was then, as everyone knows, an old friend of Rajeev Gandhi.   However, later, there were allegations that he...

I live in America and I heard that if UK parliament doesn't sign ACTA, then ACTA won't go into effect in America. I don't know if that's true, but I hear a lot of mixed information about ACTA all the time. Supposingly it is in effect here in America...