Add to ORKGThe Dutch are known as practical people, pragmatic seafaring merchants, at least that’s how we like to present ourselves. Nothing reflects that practical, pragmatic bend better than the little-heralded doing away with the consultative referendum in July this year. What had started as an attempt by befuddled centrist politicians in 2014 to bolster the public’s trust in democracy, was barely allowed to survive beyond infancy after it became clear that it was in danger of becoming a tool for populists and might even lead to a Nexit vote. So, Brexit, in a way, killed the Dutch referendum
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In late June 2016, the United Kingdom held a referendum to consider its withdrawal from the European...
[Introduction]. The Dutch referendum on the European Constitutional Treaty was the first one in over...
The Dutch are known as practical people, pragmatic seafaring merchants, at least that’s how we like ...
Jos de Beus discusses a scenario of getting rid of Dutch Euroscepticism. In the Netherlands widening...
"On lst June 2005, 61.6% of the Dutch electorate rejected the draft European Constitution. It was f...
On 6 April 2016, a referendum on the approval of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement will be held i...
One of the issues raised by the UK’s decision to leave the European Union is the effect it could hav...
To understand the challenges facing European democracy today we need to think in three-dimensional t...
One of the issues raised by the UK’s decision to leave the European Union is the effect it could hav...
The EU referendum result was not a triumph for democracy, so much as a symptom of large-scale manipu...
The result of the Brexit referendum on 23 June 2016 came as a shock to many, including much of the p...
Despite disparate attempts in both Conservative and Labour circles to get ‘beyond Brexit’, last week...
In June 2005 the Dutch electorate rejected the EU constitutional treaty in a national referendum. Th...
The fact that we have left the EU is no surprise. Nor is David Cameron’s resignation. Brexit is the ...
The shy pro-Europeanism of the last 40 years, together with the ways the EU was being abused for dom...
In late June 2016, the United Kingdom held a referendum to consider its withdrawal from the European...
[Introduction]. The Dutch referendum on the European Constitutional Treaty was the first one in over...