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- Europe United
- translating the program into German/drafting a German program before the foundation
- drafting Vereintes Europa - Europe United's foundation press release
- registering Vereintes Europa - Europe United
- switch from europeunited.org to europeunited.eu
- Missing flags:
- Unrecognized countries:
- Image:Flag of Tamil Eelam.svg → {{TAMIL EELAM}}
- Regional organisations:
- Image:Flag of ECOWAS.svg → {{ECOWAStl}}
- Image:Flag of GCC.svg → {{GCCtl}}
- Flags don't exist yet:
- Image:Flag of CSN.svg → {{CSNtl}}
- Image:Flag of SAARC.svg → {{SAARCtl}}
- Image:Flag of CEMAC.svg → {{CEMACtl}}
[edit] Regularily
- Checklist
- Mai 2007: DATUM (27 Apr), Foreign Affairs, currencies, anime
- Juni 2007: DATUM, Europaeische Rundschau, currencies, anime
- Juli 2007: DATUM, Foreign Affairs, currencies, anime
- August 2007: DATUM, currencies, anime
- September 2007: DATUM, Foreign Affairs, Europaeische Rundschau, currencies, anime
- Oktober 2007: DATUM, currencies, anime
- November 2007: DATUM, Foreign Affairs, currencies, anime
- Dezember 2007: DATUM, Europaeische Rundschau, currencies, anime
[edit] Unsorted
 Canada:
- 40th Canadian federal election possibly to be held in 2007 due to the current Conservative minority government.
- S-4: Bill to limit Senators' terms to eight years. (Constitution Act, 2006 (Senate tenure); waiting for 3rd reading in the Senate)[1]
- C-16: Bill to set fixed election dates; next date would be 19 October 2009 at the latest. (waiting for Royal Assent only)
- C-22: Bill to raise age of consent from 14 to 16. (committee stages in the Commons after 2nd reading)
- C-43: Bill to make senators elected.[2] (Senate Appointment Consultations Act; 1st reading in the Commons)
- C-51: Bill to give effect to the Nunavik Inuit Land Claims Agreement. (Nunavik Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act; 1st reading in the Commons)
- S-202: Bill to repeal all acts that didn't come into force ten years after they were passed. (Statutes Repeal Act; finished in the Senate, 1st reading in the Commons)
- C-208: Bill forcing MPs to stand in a by-election if they change their party allegiance. (committee stages in the Commons after 2nd reading)
- S-216: Bill to recognise self-governing First Nations of Canada. (First Nations Government Recognition Act; committee stages in the Senate after 2nd reading)
- C-318: Bill to establish a committee which would consider proportional representation. (1st reading in the Commons)
- C-329: Bill to allow referenda on electoral reform. (1st reading in the Commons)
- C-353: Another bill to set fixed election dates, this one resulting in the next election on 21 September 2009. (1st reading in the Commons)
- Constitutional amendment to give the Western Provinces more seats in the Senate (not yet introduced).[3]
- Electoral district name changes:
 United States:
- Reunification negotiations:
- Negotiations and developments in the refoundation of
 Somalia.
- Negotiations on
 Nagorno-Karabakh between  Armenia and  Azerbaijan.
- Negotiations on a monetary agreement between the
 European Union and  Andorra; Andorra to mint its own euro coins subsequently (2009?).[4]
- Negotiations on all of
 France's territories adopting the euro (instead of the CFP franc);  French Polynesia in favour,[5] New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna have not yet voted, though W&F is in favour.[6] Proposed dates range from 2007 to 2009.
- New
 CEFTA treaty to be ratified before 31 March 2007 by: ALB — BIH — KOSOVO — MKD — MLD — MNE — HRV — SRB and to enter into force on 1 May 2007.[7]
- Stabilisation and Association process:
 Albania: ratification ongoing; EU — AUT (first half 2007) — BEL — CYP — CZE — DNK — EST — FIN — FRA — DEU — GRC — IRE — ITA — LUX — MLT — NLD — PRT — ESP — SWE — GBR (source) Montenegro: ratification ongoing; MNE — EU — AUT — BEL — BUL — CYP — CZE — DNK — EST — FIN — FRA — DEU — GRC — HUN — IRE — ITA — LAT — LTU — LUX — MLT — NLD — POL — PRT — ROU — SVK — SVN — ESP — SWE — GBR Bosnia and Herzegovina: ongoing since 2006-11-25, four demands:[8] police reform, reform of public broadcaster, reform of government structure and construction of a single BiH economic space; BIH — EU — AUT — BEL — BUL — CYP — CZE — DNK — EST — FIN — FRA — DEU — GRC — HUN — IRE — ITA — LAT — LTU — LUX — MLT — NLD — POL — PRT — ROU — SVK — SVN — ESP — SWE — GBR Serbia: ongoing since 2005-10-10 as  Serbia and Montenegro, three demands:[9] election of a new democratic government, clear statement that Mladić will be arrested, proof of progress in indictment; SRB — EU — AUT — BEL — BUL — CYP — CZE — DNK — EST — FIN — FRA — DEU — GRC — HUN — IRE — ITA — LAT — LTU — LUX — MLT — NLD — POL — PRT — ROU — SVK — SVN — ESP — SWE — GBR
- European Constitution timetable: German EU presidency in 1st half of 2007 will present proposals for an adaptated treaty,[10] should be realised until France's presidency in the 2nd half of 2008 (before the next election and commission in 2009).[11]
- Constitution, plebiscite, referendum, election, election date, electoral reform, electoral law, political party, statehood, independence.
[edit] Transitional governments
- 2007 (certainly)
- 2008 or later
 Bangladesh (elections by 2008 — 2006–2007 Bangladeshi political crisis) Sudan (elections in 2008 or 2009[13] [14] — Second Sudanese Civil War, Eastern Front, Darfur conflict) Myanmar (currently drafting new constitution,[15] remaining chapters are "Election", "Political Parties", "State of Emergency", "Amendments of Constitution", "State Flag, State Emblem, National Anthem and Capital", "Transitory Provisions" and "General Provisions",[16] supposedly to finish in May 2007;[17] [18] if so, referendum in 2007 and election in 2008?[19]) Angola (parl. and pres. elections repeatedly postponed, to be held 2008 and 2009?) Fiji (elections in 2010?[20] — 2006 Fijian coup d'état)- Somalia (no elections planned — War in Somalia)
 Eritrea (elections only after the resolution of the conflict with Ethiopia — Eritrean-Ethiopian War, Algiers Agreement)
[edit] New governments
[edit] New parties
 Italy (parties, historical, 15th legislature): Democratic Party, Freedom Party, Association for the Rose in the Fist, Christian Democratic Federation, Republicans, Liberals, Reformers, new fascist pact of MIS, AS, FN and National Volunteers (Italy)- 2007: Scottish Voice, Solidarity in
 Scotland (3 May 2007), Iceland's Movement – Living Land in  Iceland (12 May 2007), Patriotic Socialist Union in  Basque Country (27 May 2007), Democratic League of Dardania in  Kosovo (September 2007), National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction in  Timor-Leste (mid-to-late 2007)
- 2008: Liberal Democratic Party in
 Romania (28 November 2008), Citizens' Forum in Bangladesh (2008)
- 2009: Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria in
 Bulgaria, four Tahoera'a Huiraatira members to found new party in French Polynesia[22] (2009), Red in  Norway (2009)
- 2010: Party for Dignified Life in
 Czech Republic (2010), United National Front in  Afghanistan (2010), Social Justice in  Israel (2010), United Socialist Party of Venezuela in  Venezuela (by November 2007[23], 2010)
[edit] Military operations and conflicts
[edit] Political issues
 Austria: Only interesting government proposals are voting with 16 and per mail plus the extension of the term to five years[27] and a ban on smoking in public places by 2008.[28] Chile: Electoral reform?[29] [30]- Italy: New electoral law?[31] [32] Berlusconi and Prodi both have forwarded ideas for electoral reform.[33] [34] [35]
 Kyrgyzstan: Constitutional reform yet again...[36] Lebanon: 2006–2007 Lebanese anti-government revolt by pro-Syrian forces against the anti-Syrian government. New electoral law? Republic of Macedonia, Macedonia naming dispute: Name still disputed with  Greece, progress expected after the July '06 elections.[37] [38]- Montenegro: new Constitution of Montenegro (with two languages and no church list[39]) likely to be complicated to agree on,[40] to join Council of Europe only afterwards.[41] (Foreign_relations_of_Montenegro#Membership_in_international_organizations)
 Nepal, Nepalese Civil War: Arms monitoring ongoing under United Nations Mission in Nepal supervision, preparations for Constituent Assembly elections.[42] [43]- Romania: Voting law might be changed to majority/personal vote[44] and president may be impeached through referendum.[45] New government helped by SocDem, but likely only until their poll numbers improve.[46]
- Serbia: Arrest of Ratko Mladić; if not done, SAA negotiations will not restart. Negotiations could be reopened without Mladic, but candidate status impossible without his capture.[47] Radovan Karadžić also missing, as well as Vlastimir Đorđević, Goran Hadžić, Zdravko Tolimir and Stojan Župljanin.
 Zimbabwean political crisis: Possibly the end of Robert Mugabe?
[edit] Noteworthy contributions
- 159753, Adam Carr, Aldux, Alinor, AndrewRT, Bolivian Unicyclist, Briaboru, CaribDigita, Checco, Chochopk, Chris_nelson, C mon, Cuivienen, Davewild, Dove1950, Electionworld, Etherialemperor, Everyking, Ezhiki, Hoshie, IdiotSavant, Ingoman, JLogan, Kseferovic, Lexicon, Lholden, Number 57, PaxEquilibrium, Petercorless, Raystorm, Ronline, Ssolbergj, Švitrigaila, TheFEARgod, The Tom, Thomas.macmillan, Valentinian, Warofdreams, Wiki-vr, Wiz9999, Zntrip, Zscout370; Denelson83, Ingoman, Mysid, Valentinian, Zscout370.
[edit] Upcoming
- Ongoing:
- Venezuelan presidential election, 2006 (final 0.92%) [2]
- Lesotho parliamentary election, 2007 (final seat) (45 Makhaleng)
- New South Wales general election, 2007 (LegCo) [3]
- Egyptian constitutional referendum, 2007
- Beninese parliamentary election, 2007
- Madagascan constitutional referendum, 2007
- Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin (ISO codes)
- Successor for Aristides Gomes in
 Guinea-Bissau
- crisis over early elections in
 Ukraine on 27 May 2007
- United States congress by-election in Massachusetts to replace Martin T. Meehan.[48]
- unity deal in Lebanon,[49] List of entities and changes in The World Factbook, National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, six-party talks 6th round
- Canadian vacancies: federal (Outremont by 28 July, Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot by 25 August), Albera (Calgary Elbow by July, Drumheller-Stettler by July), Manitoba (Kirkfield Park by March)
- Kosovo's status to be decided. Provisions: constitutional, international presence; from entry into force, 120-day transition period during which UNMIK will continue to govern to give the Kosovar parliament the time necessary to draft a constitution and similar legislation; after that, general and local elections will have to be held within nine months.[50]
- 8 April: Toukyou gubernatorial election.[51]
- 9 April: Presidential election in Timor-Leste.
- 10 April: ORF-Programmreform.
- 11 April: Election for the president of the Territorial Assembly in Wallis and Futuna.
- 12 April: Machap by-election, 2007 in
 Malaysia.
- 13 April: Next round of Juba talks.[52]
- 15 April:
- 16 April: Announcement of candidacies for Turkish presidential election, 2007.[53]
- 16 April—mid-June: 2007 Somali National Reconciliation Conference.
- 19 April: New President of Mauritania to be sworn in.[54]
- 20 April: Some kind of election in Curacao, relevant for
 Netherlands Antilles restructuring?[55]
- 20 April–22 April Foundation of new leftist party Democratic Party (Italy) (L'Ulivo → Partito Democratico) in Italy?[56]
- 21 April:
- 22 April: Okinakawa Prefecture House of Councillors by-election.[58]
- 22 April and 6 May: Presidential elections in France, next chance for rightists to fall, important for European Constitution. Ségolène Royal to win?
- 22 April: Parliamentary election in
 Syria.
- 27 April: Nova Scotia Liberal Party leadership election, 2007.
- 29 April: Presidential election in
 Mali, second round on 13 May.
- by April:
 Morocco to abolish capital punishment.[59]
- Late April: Next step in ISS assembly sequence. (STS-117, Template:ISS modules)
- April:
- April–June: Bulgaria to join ERM II.[60] [61]
- Soon:
- Early June: Neue Volksanwälte, Kostelka bleibt, Stoisits als Dritte, ÖVP noch unbekannt.
- 2 June: Next round of 2008 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying. (6 June, 8 September, 12 September, 13 October, 17 October, 17 November, 21 November)
- 3 June: Parliamentary election in
 Senegal.
- 6–24 June: 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
- 10 June: Legislative elections in
 Belgium, next chance for liberals to fall.
- 10 June and 17 June: Legislative elections in France, next chance for rightists to fall.
- 12 June:
 United States Virgin Islands to elect 30-member constitutional assembly.[72]
- 16 June: The Left Party.PDS and Labour and Social Justice Party to merge into The Left. (Germany).
- 19 June: United States Congress by-election for Georgia's 10th congressional district.[73]
- 20 June:
- 21 June/22 June: European Council summit.
- 24 June: Baja California state election, 2007 in
 Mexico.
- 24 June and 22 July: Parliamentary election in
 Republic of the Congo.
- 26 June–15 July: Copa América 2007.
- June:
[edit] Unknown
- Trinidad and Tobago general election, 2007, European Parliament election, 2007 (Romania), Qatari legislative election, 2007, Next Bangladeshi parliamentary election
- Canada: Prince Edward Island general election, 2007; Manitoba general election, 2007; Saskatchewan general election, 2007; Alberta general election, 2007.
- Michel Platini to reform UEFA: 24 teams instead of 16 in European Championships, at most three instead of four teams per country in the Champions League?[86]
 Bolivia[87] and Mexico to join Mercosur,  Panama to join as an observer?[88] [89] [90]- Chile to rejoin Andean Community as a full member (already an associate)?[91]
 Seychelles to rejoin  Southern African Development Community. Faroe Islands to join EFTA.[92] Vatican City to start negotiations on joining the Schengen Agreement,  Liechtenstein finished negotiations, needs to be ratified now.[93] [94]- Reform of the House of Lords in the
 United Kingdom (?).
- Reform of the United Nations Security Council and Reform of the United Nations.
 Sweden to consider same-sex marriage.[95] Hungary to determine euro coin design.- Euro banknote design to be changed: Cyrillic version of "euro" (EBPO) to be added for Bulgaria, abbreviation for ECB to be added in additional languages,
 Cyprus to be added on the map.
 Poland to join ESA PECS (Plan for European Cooperating States).- Complete integration of CAN and Mercosur into South American Community of Nations?
- Constitutional reform (and referenda?) in
 Algeria — presidential term limits and length, certainly in 2007?[96] Barbados — becoming a republic?[97] Bermuda — independence? British Virgin Islands — constitutional reform talks with the UK finished? new post of premier.[98] Denmark — royal succession?[99] Dominican Republic — constitutional reform underway, likely in 2007[100] [101] Ecuador — Correa strongly in favour: Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly referendum, 2007[102] Georgia — opposition supportive, to be drafted soon, possibly only to be promulgated after the restoration of territorial integrity?[103] [104] Jamaica — becoming a republic?[105] Japan — establishment of a real defence ministry?[106] Kenya — Kenyan constitutional referendum, 2005 failed, currently drafting another new constitution?[107] Philippines — turning a bicameral presidential republic into a unicameral parliamentary, possibly to be held in 2007, public strongly opposed?[108] Spain — royal succession?[109] Thailand — next constitution of Thailand currently being drafted: Thai constitutional referendum, 2007- Venezuela — "socialist revolution", continuing the Bolivarian Revolution: Venezuelan constitutional referendum, 2007[110] [111] [112]
 Zambia — replacing a British constitution with a Zambian constitution, date to be set after February 2007?[113] [114]
- Possible flag changes:
- Czech Republic and Hungary to join ESA.
 Western Sahara to hold a referendum on independence. Palestine to become independent. Taiwan to declare independence/join the  UN.- Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
 Croatia, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia to join  NATO.
- Gemeinderatswahlen Graz, Landtagswahlen
 Lower Austria and  Tyrol.
- Elections in Greece (32nd),
 Malta and  Slovenia, next chance for rightists to fall.
- Nunavut general election, 2008.
- Referendum on minor changs to the constitution in Spain (changes regarding hereditary order for royalty), to be held just before the next legislative elections.
- Referendum to be held on the new constitution in
 Bhutan, first elections to be held later this year.
- Referendum in Hungary on introduction of €.
 Greenland to introduce their own semi-independent currency, similar to the Faroe Islands króna.[120]- Belize legislative election, 2008
- Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2008 and Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008
- New Caledonia to hold up to three referenda on independence until 2018.
- COMESA to introduce a common currency.
[edit] Unknown dates
[edit] Certain
[edit] Possible
[edit] Issues
[edit] Currencies
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[edit] Other currency unions
[edit] Remainder
[edit] Regional bloc accession/membership
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 Association of Southeast Asian Nations: Timor-Leste (applied 2006)[130] Caribbean Community: Dominican Republic East African Community:  Burundi,  Rwanda (1 July 2007) — Sudan[131]- ESA:
- Czech Republic (joined PECS in November 2003, to join 2008)
- Hungary (joined PECS in April 2003, to join 2008)
- Romania (joined PECS in February 2006, to join 2011?)
- Poland (to enter partnership by 2007?)
- Bulgaria, Cyprus,
 Estonia, Malta,  Latvia,  Lithuania,  Slovakia, Slovenia (matter of time)
- Community of Democratic Choice: possibly Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Sweden
- European Union:
- Croatia,
 Turkey (in negotiations)
- Republic of Macedonia (candidate)
- Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia (after concluding SAA negotiations; certain)
 Cape Verde (to apply soon),  Moldova (???), Ukraine (to apply 2007) (stated goal of governments)- Faroe Islands (not entirely impossible),[132] Iceland (to be discussed between 2007 and 2010), Norway (to be discussed after 2009 elections),
 Switzerland (currently pursuing "bilateral way"; other possibilities exist[133]) (matter of time)
- Andorra (Social Democratic Party in favour, last elections 2005, next 2009),[134]
 San Marino (Popular Alliance in favour, last elections 2006, next 2011)[135] (possible)
- Liechtenstein,
 Monaco, Vatican City (questionable)
- European Union Neighbourhood Policy:
- Action Plan being implemented: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Israel,
 Jordan, Lebanon, Moldova, Morocco, Palestine,  Tunisia, Ukraine
- Association Agreement in force, Action Plan being negotiated:
 Egypt
- Country Report being prepared after ratification of Association Agreement: Algeria
- No Association Agreement yet: Syria
- Current political situation makes Association Agreement impossible:
 Belarus,  Libya
 Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf:  Yemen (in 2016?)- NATO:
- OECD: Numerous countries. Next round of enlargement in May 2007?[139]
- OPEC: Possibly Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Sudan, Syria;[145] maybe
 Kazakhstan and  Russia.[146] [147]
- Schengen treaty:
- Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland (certain)
 Ireland, United Kingdom (after introduction of British and Irish national identity cards sometime in the future...?)
- UNO: Taiwan
 WEU: non-full-member states; could also be abolished in favour of a new defence concept.- WTO: 47 countries
[edit] Status changes
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- Further information: list of disputed or occupied territories
[edit] Internal status changes
[edit] Secession
[edit] Will secede (or at least hold a referendum)
[edit] Certainly wants to secede
[edit] Could secede, insufficient support
[edit] Unification/Breakup
[edit] Democratization and related issues
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— next update in January 2008
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- 108 states to abolish death penalty.
- 89 – 145 states to ratify Rome Statute and APIC.
- Lots of states to abolish conscription, most notably Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia,
 Finland,  Germany,[165] Greece, Lithuania and Sweden in the European Union. Plans to abolish it in Bulgaria on 1 January 2008[166] and Poland before 2012.[167] Source: http://www.wri-irg.org/co/rtba/
- All but five states to allow same-sex marriage.
 Liberia and Myanmar likely to metricate once democracy has fully returned, United Kingdom (Metrication in the United Kingdom) and United States (Metrication in the United States) likely to take their time (though the UK *has* to, according to Union law).
[edit] Disputes and conflicts
- Armenia and Azerbaijan to resolve dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh.
 Belize and  Guatemala to resolve conflict over the Belizean territory.- Bolivia and Chile to resolve conflict over Bolivia's sea access.
 Colombia to resolve civil war with  ELN and  FARC-EP. Democratic Republic of the Congo to resolve civil war with multilateral participance and Ituri conflict. Côte d'Ivoire to resolve civil war with northern rebels.- Eastern European Union to improve human rights situation for
 Roma, e. g. through the Decade of Roma Inclusion.
 Indonesia to deal with  West Papua independence movements, as well as implement the autonomy agreement for  Aceh and help sustain Timor-Leste's development.- Republic of Macedonia to resolve naming dispute with Greece.
- Nepal to resolve civil war with Maoist rebels.
- Russia to resolve civil war in Chechnya.
- Senegal to resolve conflict over independence of Casamance.
- Spain to resolve the amibitions of its autonomous communities:
- Historical communities:
 Andalucía, the Basque Country,(38 to 31 in favour?![168])  Catalonia and  Galicia demand more autonomy or independence. The Basque Country might attain independence ( Basque Country and  Navarre in Spain, parts of the département  Pyrénées Atlantiques in France). The Catalan Countries might also succeed with this endeavour ( Balearic Islands,  Catalonia, La Franja (eastern part of  Aragon) and  Valencia in Spain, Andorra, Northern Catalonia (part of the département  Pyrénées-Orientales) in France). Galicians might also favour to merge with  Portugal.
- New statutes for Andalucía (referendum soon), Aragon, Balearic Islands and
 Castile–La Mancha (to be passed as law soon), Valencia.
- Autonomous communities which want to declare themselves comunidades históricas: Aragon,[169]
 Asturias,[170] Balearic Islands,[171]  Castile and León,[172] Valencia[173]
 Canary Islands,  Cantabria, Castile–La Mancha,  Extremadura,  La Rioja,  Madrid,  Murcia and Navarre don't have plans to declare themselves as a comunidad histórica yet.
- Sudan to resolve civil war in
 Darfur.
- Turkey to resolve Armenian Genocide, Assyrian Genocide and Pontic Greek Genocide issues.
 Iran,  Iraq, Syria and Turkey to resolve conflict over  Kurdistan issue: Rebels have been fighting in eastern Turkey for an independent Kurdistan for decades, and the Kurdish Autonomous Region in northern Iraq might break away. Uganda to resolve civil war in the north with Lord's Resistance Army.
[edit] Monarchism
[edit] Commonwealth Realms
[edit] Monarchies
- Constitutional monarchies:
- Equal primogeniture: Belgium (×),
 Netherlands (×), Nepal (×, possibly to be abolished), Norway (×), Sweden (×)
- Male primogeniture: Denmark (×, to be changed), Spain (×, to be changed), United Kingdom (×), Thailand (×)
- Salic law: Japan (×, could still be changed?),
 Luxembourg (×)
- Special cases: Andorra (/×/, co-principality),
 Cambodia (×, appointed by Throne Council),  Lesotho (×, appointed by the College of Chiefs), Malaysia (×, elective monarchy with fixed order of rotation for five-year terms),  Samoa (until Malietoa Tanumafili II of Samoa dies; thereafter republic, which it technically already is)
- Semi-constitutional monarchies:
- Absolute monarchies:
[edit] Flag changes
- National level:
- Angola (proposal exists since 2003, not yet ratified; after general election in 2006/7?)
 Australia (repeatedly discussed; still uses blue ensign)- Bolivia (flag of Bolivia to be changed to
 through new constitution in 2007?)
 Cook Islands (not discussed yet, but still uses blue ensign)- Fiji (currently under discussion; proposal to include the whole Coat of Arms made by Great Council of Chiefs; still uses blue ensign)
- Kosovo (currently under discussion, lacks own flag, uses for now, inofficially uses Image:Kosovo Presidential Flag.gif)
- Luxembourg (flag of Luxembourg to be changed to
 through a simple law in 2007?)
 Mozambique (RENAMO still wants to change the flag, which it considers to be too closely related to the FRELIMO flag)- Myanmar (flag of Myanmar to be changed to a "red-green-yellow" flag through the long-time constitutional convention controlled by the military dictatorship?)
- New Caledonia (lacks own flag, officially uses
 , inofficially uses  )
 New Zealand (repeatedly discussed; still uses blue ensign) Niue (not discussed yet, but still uses yellow ensign) Northern Ireland (new flag likely to be designed after reestablishment of the  Northern Ireland Assembly)- Tokelau (not discussed yet, but still uses
 officially, inofficially uses  )
 Tuvalu (not discussed yet, but still uses blue ensign).
- Subnational entities still using blue or red ensigns:
[edit] Austrian politics, public transport in  Vienna, electoral reform
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- Proporz to be abolished in Lower Austria,
 Burgenland (goal of all parties except ÖVP),  Styria (soon?),  Carinthia,  Upper Austria, and to be factually abolished in Vienna.
- Voting age to be lowered to 16:
- SPÖ to take Carinthia (almost certain after the split of FPÖ and BZÖ), Upper Austria (possible with the right candidate), Lower Austria, Tyrol and
 Vorarlberg (highly unlikely).
- Civil union and same-sex marriage to be legalized in Austria.
- Studiengebühren to be abolished, or university and education budgets to be increased.
- Eurofighter not to be bought...?
- Better immigration policy.
- Smoking restrictions.[183]
- Abolishing conscription.[184]
- Legalising abortion de iure, and not only de facto.
- Carinthia to finally put up the bilingual town signs, Enotna Lista finally to have electoral success.
- Vienna's Bezirksvertretungen:
- 1., Innere Stadt — swing needed to go from ÖVP to SPÖ: 6.74%
- 2005: ÖVP 43.32%, SPÖ 29.84%
- 2001: ÖVP 33.11%, SPÖ 25.64%
- 1996: ÖVP 38.21%, SPÖ 18.90%
- 4., Wieden — swing needed to go from ÖVP to SPÖ: 0.47%; from ÖVP to Grüne: 1.08%
- 2005: ÖVP 30.28%, SPÖ 29.35%, Grüne 28.13%
- 2001: ÖVP 30.11%, SPÖ 28.70%, Grüne 22.10%
- 1996: ÖVP 34.89%, SPÖ 24.14%, Grüne 12.74%
- 6., Mariahilf — swing needed to go from SPÖ to Grüne: 3.29%
- 2005: SPÖ 35.55%, Grüne 28.97%, ÖVP 25.40%
- 2001: SPÖ 30.66%, ÖVP 25.70%, Grüne 24.91%
- 1996: ÖVP 34.21%, SPÖ 24.11%, Grüne 14.99%
- 9., Alsergrund — swing needed to go from SPÖ to Grüne: 2.19%
- 2005: SPÖ 33.81%, Grüne 29.43%, ÖVP 25.52%
- 2001: SPÖ 32.50%, ÖVP 26.03%, Grüne 21.23%
- 1996: SPÖ 27.80%, ÖVP 26.83%, Grüne 14.58%
- 13., Hietzing — swing needed to go from ÖVP to SPÖ: 3.06%
- 2005: ÖVP 39.50%, SPÖ 33.38%
- 2001: ÖVP 36.65%, SPÖ 31.65%
- 1996: ÖVP 38.57%, SPÖ 29.02%
- 18., Währing — swing needed to go from ÖVP to SPÖ: 2.23%
- 2005: ÖVP 34.85%, SPÖ 30.40%
- 2001: ÖVP 32.13%, SPÖ 28.36%
- 1996: ÖVP 32.87%, SPÖ 24.65%
- 19., Döbling — swing needed to go from ÖVP to SPÖ: 3.18%
- 2005: ÖVP 40.67%, SPÖ 34.31%
- 2001: ÖVP 36.54%, SPÖ 32.61%
- 1996: ÖVP 37.31%, SPÖ 28.17%
- Electoral reform in Canada:
 Federal: FPTP Ontario: FPTP, referendum on MMP in 2007 New Brunswick: FPTP, referendum on MMP in 2008 British Columbia: FPTP, BC-STV almost approved in 2005 referendum (58% approval, 60% needed), another referendum on BC-STV in 2009 Prince Edward Island: FPTP, MMP rejected in 2005 referendum (38% approval) Alberta,  Manitoba,  Newfoundland and Labrador,  Nova Scotia,  Quebec,  Saskatchewan,  Yukon: FPTP Nunavut,  Northwest Territories: FPTP non-partisan
[edit] Miscellaneous
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[edit] References
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