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<p>The aftershocks of Thursday's referendum on British membership in the European Union continued to reverberate Saturday, as more than 2 million people signed an online petition calling for a second vote and one lawmaker said Parliament should overturn the result.</p>

David Cameron is facing his first bloody nose in the House of Commons just five weeks after the general election with as many as 50 Conservative MPs set to try to force changes to the rules of the European Union referendum. The Prime Minister is hoping that the potential Tory rebels—which include former Tory Cabinet ministers Liam Fox and Owen Paterson—can be bought off with some “credible assurances” ahead of Tuesday’s crunch votes on backbench amendments to the EU Referendum Bill. However, Sir William Cash, who led the Tory rebels against Sir John Major’s Government over the Maastricht Treaty in...

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Per Stig Moeller wants a clear advice on the future of the treaty Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller has suggested that his country's referendum on the EU constitution may be called off.Danes had been due to take part in a legally binding vote on 27 September, but the re-think follows the French and Dutch rejection of the treaty. Mr Moeller said he did not expect EU leaders meeting this week to give a clear answer on the fate of the text. The charter has been ratified by 10 of the 25 member states so far. EU foreign ministers...

One in four of France's 42 million eligible voters had turned out by midday to cast their ballots in the country's hotly-contested referendum on the EU constitution, the interior ministry said. The 25.08 percent turnout was nearly five points higher than the 20.39 percent who had turned out by the same hour in 1992 to vote on the Maastricht treaty, which created the European Union's common currency, the euro. Polling stations opened across mainland France at 8:00 am (0600 GMT), and were to remain open until 8:00 pm nationwide, with residents of Paris and Lyon given an extra two hours...

NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV ONCE COMMENTED WRYLY that the only trouble with free elections is that you never know who's going to win. The old shoe-banger's words have been echoing around Europe these last few weeks, as the continent prepares for a democratic exercise that could alter the entire political construct and direction of Europe. Nobody has a clue what is going to happen. And European leaders are as terrified of voters as the ever-smiling Khrushchev was.The occasion is not strictly an election, but a referendum, or a whole series of them, beginning Sunday, May 29, in France, on whether or not...