referendum – The Barricade

ELMO: Right to housing struggles in Eastern Europe and the Berlin referendum

András Juhász
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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The value of global real estate makes up nearly 60% of the value of all global assets, with residential real estate comprising 75% of the total. In a September referendum, which was the result of...

The housing market has no ethics, therefore it must be limited

Zsolt Levente Dobrai - Péter Máthé
Housing
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In June 2019, 77,001 Berliners had already signed the initiative of the movement Deutsche Wohnen und Co. Enteignen (Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen and Co.), which aims to force the local authorities to organise a referendum on...

The Romanian ”Referendum for the Family” – a battle for a lost cause?

Maria Cernat
Analysis
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2015 was the year when the idea appeared for the Romanian Constitution to be modified in such a way that the marriage would be defined as the union between a man and a woman. The current article of...

Democratic innovation leads to successful Irish referendum on legalisation of abortion

Vladimir Mitev
Gender issues
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A film by the Scottish journalist Patrick Chalmers describes the Citizens` Assembly of 99 Irish men and women who gathered at the end of 2016 in a hotel in Dublin... and brought about social change...