Freedom of Press in Europe?

[Bereta_Eder]

Those damn turkish subjects indeed. (no idea what it means)

[Bereta_Eder]

POMS. In french it means apples. Better make them red.

[Evil Knevil]

(See my edit)

Yeah, its the hangover from never having a proper revolution. The Monarch hasn't refused a bill from Parliament since Queen Anne (the Ugly) in about 1707. However all power rests in them and the relationship between the two bodies.

The system is still that all bills have to get Royal assent, but it's so automatic that special comissionars do the assent. Technically the Monarch could refuse a law, or refuse to dissolve Parliament for a new election. In fact George V did refuse to dissolve parliament in 1924.... long story.

[Bereta_Eder]

The country who gave birth to the sex pistols the clash not having a proper revolution... how sad then again if it did it maybe wouldn't have them! miden kakou amiges kalou (no bad is devoied of good)

any way queen, drags the tourists in. smile like the pope if you think about it my fellow anarchist

[Dauphin]

Its true, our civil war was a civilised affair. The parliamentarians won and decided that the Royals weren't all that bad and asked them to come back.

[Evil Knevil]

It would be good to change the system it's certainly gotten incrediably creaky --Parliament could ban elections if a majority of 1 voted for it, referendi have absolutely no official power. The worst problem is that the two party system causes huge swings in economic policy and cause nasty damage.

....However it's 'worked' for better or for worse so far. This amazing talking-shop called Parliament was strongly 'for the people' and 'liberal' long before anywhere else, even if it wasn't properly democratic.

Did you know that only 2 countries that started WW1 didn't have universal male sufferage, Britain and Hungary

The path to change seems to come from EU treaties and the like, since foreign treaties stand above domestic law and can't be abrogated without major problems.

So things like the European Human Rights Act has given us a sort of Constitution, but only through bizzarre 'Treaty Law'

[Bereta_Eder]

civilized civil war? maybe you mean "failed" big crunch?
the fervor of the french revolution. where is it?
tranposmed to britisdh punk songs maybe? marginal but not national mainstream?

anyway, german queen good for abuse. now prince william abusing butlers. good tabloid stories.

[Bereta_Eder]

basically, it's folkore. go to London go to soho (by mistake) see the queen.

same in beglium and sweden and holland.

in britain there wasnt the uprising of youth against the king (queen) as it was in beglium. LOL I was caught in the middle. old ladys saying "how sad" the only peaceful onew the belgian king found to salute was me and thats because i didnt know **** about what was going on.

anyway funny. old europe.

[Evil Knevil]

House of Windsor my ass. It's the house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. They changed in during the war!

Yes, I say kill the Queen and the fascist regime. It made me a moron.

[Evil Knevil]

Oh, btw am I the only Westerner to know that's Alizee?

[Bereta_Eder]

And Johnny Rotten smiles lol

(God im very drunk i should go to sleep)

[DAVOUT]

Originally posted by VetLegion
Monk,

the Courts seem to have power to stop papers from damaging the image of the Royalty.

You mean that damaging the image of the Royalty is a royal monopoly?

[TheStinger]

There's some bollocks being talked here.

The Royal family have nothing to do with this injunction. It was taken out by a former servant who did not want someone to report what he alledgedly told that person.

The Queen has no power, none, dada, zilch.

If and we are going into fantasy land here there was a hung parliament and all 3 parties got the same number of seats and wern't able to form a coalition its possible she would have to decide who was prime minister if the previous govt for some reason wasn't one of those 3 parties or didn't want to form a govt.

That is the only time the Queen would have power.

The prime minster carries out all the powers that the Queen theoreticaly has.

The last time a monarch thougth he had power over parliament he got deposed.

The Queen cannot refuse to dissolve a parliament, it is again a formality. Parliamnet is soverign in the UK.

Its a ****ed up complicated system but it doesn't involve the Queen having power over the courts.

[Jamski]

What happened is that the papers were not CENSORED but were warned off printing the piece by the threat of heavy libel cases.

-Jam

[Pekka]

I stand as a proud citizen of Finland, which press was picked to be the MOST FREE press in the WORLD this year. So, once again, the whole Europe this and that is completely wrong placing of words .

I don't know about the rest of you brainwashed censorship suffering people.. I like my papers free and fresh, and I get'em just I like want them.