Full Coverage: Politics

26.06.2006 As football fans enjoy the world cup, the Control Arms campaign is getting ready to kick off a whole series of events at the crucial UN Conference on Small Arms, which starts today. Visit The Stadium and score one for the campaign.

22.06.2006 The Macedonian Green Centre (MGC), in cooperation with six environmental NGOS – Eko-Svest, Proaktiva and Eko.net from Skopje, Biosfera from Bitola, IO Krste Jon/Zelen Centar from Struga, and Green Power from Veles – started the “Vote Nature!” Campaign.

19.06.2006 Journal writers are masters of half-truths and distortion that goes along the the paper's policy of being hostile to any government not in line with the neoliberal Washington Consensus (wreaking havoc wherever it spreads) and not fully subservient to US wishes.

15.06.2006 Representatives and leaders of 36 political parties in Macedonia signed the Code of Behaviour for Free and Fair Parliamentary Elections. The signatories promised to their opponents, but also to the citizens, that they will abide to the provisions of the Code and that they accept their share of responsibility for free and fair elections.

14.06.2006 The Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development (KIPRED) and the Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms (CDHRF) on 5 June, 2006 organized a roundtable on “Election Legislation in Kosovo: Who? What? When? How?” attended by high representatives of local institutions, the international presence, political parties and the civil society.

14.06.2006 From Eco-worrier:
"Keen recyclers rejoice. The UK government is toying with taxing us for our non-recyclable rubbish. If it follows the European example, we will be coughing up between 25p and 50p a kilo of rubbish or up to £10 a month."

14.06.2006 Last year, the UK government promised to stop forcing poor countries to open up their markets. But it supports two large international institutions, the IMF and World Bank, which continue to do just that. Drum home the trade justice message to the government this summer... join the campaign drumming petition.

09.06.2006 The test of a televised debate is not what the candidates say but how they do. This makes the end result look more like soap opera auditions than a public forum of ideas. It is doubtful that Tuesday night's spectacle swayed much of the coveted “undecided vote.” Predictably, everyone pronounced their own candidate the “winner.

09.06.2006 Norwegian mediators say they have been unable to bring the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels together for talks being held in Oslo.

07.06.2006 The MOST Civic Association appealed today to all participants in the 2006 Parliamentary Elections to adhere to the legislation that regulates the electoral processes and to maintain the positive campaign climate.