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The Fifth Congress
for Democracy
was held on Friday
2 February 2001
at Church House,
Dean's Yard, Westminster
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full report
Guest
speakers - verbatim speeches available on-line:
PREPARING FOR A
REFERENDUM
Simon Wolfson, Managing
Director of Next plc
Larry Elliott, Economics Editor, The Guardian
THE TREATY OF NICE
Daniel Hannan MEP
Anthony Coughlan, Senior
Lecturer Emeritus in Social Policy at Trinity College, Dublin and
Secretary of the National Platform
REFERENDUM
LEGISLATION
Anthony Ogilvie LLB,
Secretary of the Congress for Democracy's Constitutional Committee,
reporting on referendum aspects of the Political
Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.
INTRODUCTION TO THE
DECLARATION FOR DEMOCRACY
Professor Trevor Hartley,
Professor of Law, London School of Economics, and member of Congress for
Democracy's Constitutional Sub-Committee
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The agenda of the
Fifth Congress was:
9.00
REGISTRATION - COFFEE
9.30
PREPARING FOR A REFERENDUM:
Simon Wolfson
Managing Director of Next plc
Larry Elliott
Economics Editor of The
Guardian
10.30
THE TREATY OF NICE:
Daniel Hannan MEP
Daniel Hannan is a
member of the European Parliament'sJustice & Home Affairs Committee
and Budgets Committee.
Anthony Coughlan
Senior Lecturer
Emeritus in Social Policy at Trinity College, Dublin and Secretary of
the National Platform.
11.15 COFFEE
11.30 REFERENDUM
LEGISLATION:
Anthony Ogilvie LLB
Secretary of the
Congress for Democracy's Constitutional Committee reported on the
referendum aspects of the Political Parties, Elections and
Referendums Act.
11.45 THE DECLARATION FOR
DEMOCRACY:
Professor Trevor Hartley
Professor Trevor
Hartley - who is Professor of Law at the
London School of Economics, and also a member of the Congress for
Democracy's Constitutional Sub-Committee - introduced the draft
Declaration
of Democracy, which the Congress was asked to discuss and
approve.
1.15 LUNCH
2.30 FURTHER DISCUSSIONS
3.30 TEA
The Congress was jointly chaired by Sir Michael Spicer
MP and
Austin Mitchell MP.
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