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What if no party crosses the electoral threshold in a parliamentary election?
In czech-republic, parliamentary elections have a 5% threshold for political parties (and 8-11% for coalitions of parties). The election law 247/1995, article 49 states that if less than two parties/...
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Why does Denmark spend less of their budget on their universal health care than USA does?
Denmark spends a smaller percentage of their total budget on health care because their government budget in relation to their population is much larger.
The US has a federal budget of $3852 billion ...
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History or events likely triggering or being used by Koran-burning anti-Muslim groups in Denmark and Sweden?
The applications to the police for permits for demonstrations are public, and the major Swedish newspaper DN managed to find all 10 individuals who have requested a permit for burning religious texts.(...
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Why did Denmark, Sweden, and Germany reject a joint investigation offered by Russia?
There is a debate strategy known as 'bullshitting.'
Bullshitting relies on the fact that stating a falsehood or half-truth takes considerably less time and energy than refuting that falsehood. So in a ...
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How is judicial independence maintained under the principle of parliamentary sovereignty / supremacy?
I will reference the United Kingdom in my answer, which uses the principle of parliamentary sovereignty.
In the United Kingdom, the role of the judiciary is not to determine whether a law is valid. ...
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History or events likely triggering or being used by Koran-burning anti-Muslim groups in Denmark and Sweden?
Frame challenge: The question asks for specific history or events to have triggered Quran burnings. I don't think any particular events are needed or even related to the recent burnings.
What is ...
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What if no party crosses the electoral threshold in a parliamentary election?
In germany, there are at least twice as many seats as there are polling districts. Voters cast two votes:
Whoever gets the most Erststimme votes in a district is elected.
The remaining seats are ...
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What are the geopolitical reasons for the United States wanting to buy Greenland?
Well, it's kind of simple, actually. In fact, you provided the answer with the first map. Greenland is rather close (as the crow flies) to another country in Europe that the United States has not ...
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What if no party crosses the electoral threshold in a parliamentary election?
In Germany there would still be direct seats, i.e. the first vote. They are not affected by any threshold. So I guess that in the extremely unlikely event, that no party achieves the 5% threshold, the ...
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Why is Denmark willing to allow Greenland to become independent, but not willing to sell it to the US?
If Greenland first decides to become independent in a referendum accepted by Denmark, and then petitions to join the United States, that's the sovereign decision of Greenland's residents.
If Denmark ...
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Why did a party with more votes get fewer seats in the 2019 European Parliament election in Denmark?
If I've correctly understood this auto-translated Danish article, Radikale Venstre (Social Liberals) were in an election alliance with Alternativet (The Alternative), so the votes of the latter were ...
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How is judicial independence maintained under the principle of parliamentary sovereignty / supremacy?
Here is a fourth question with basically the same answer:
The executive branch is fundamentally the most powerful one, because it has guns while the others don't. Why does the executive branch simply ...
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Will it be harder to emigrate to a European country (e.g. Denmark) if Britain leaves the EU?
Currently it's hard to tell. EU membership of the UK won't end the day the referendum goes through. Leaving the EU will be a gradual process and we will have to see which agreements will be replaced ...
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Dependencies, autonomous territories and the EU
Each is a special case.
At the time the "motherlands" joined the EC, the number of EC members could be counted by the fingers on two hands. Each had specific constitutional relations with ...
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What if no party crosses the electoral threshold in a parliamentary election?
In denmark Compensatory seats are available to parties that have:
won at least 1 constituency seat
obtained in two of the three regions of Denmark proper, a number of votes greater than the average ...
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Why does Denmark allow its citizens to return from Sweden, but not admit Swedes?
The risk is present (although not necessarily strictly equivalent) but it has to be balanced against other concerns:
The right for everybody to enter their own country. Some countries have ...
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History or events likely triggering or being used by Koran-burning anti-Muslim groups in Denmark and Sweden?
Turkey
Turkey put barriers in the way of Sweden's entry into NATO (in part out of unhappiness over European opposition to Turkey joining the E.U. or the European free trade area).
Protestors sought to ...
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Would Greenland need the permission of Denmark to make a deal with the United States if they became independent?
Under current law, the source for a sentence saying that they can vote to get independence in the Wikipedia article you linked to says that (translated with Google, edited for grammar):
The ...
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What if no party crosses the electoral threshold in a parliamentary election?
Parties take measures to ensure something like this might not happen. Even without changing the threshold law, other rules and/or tactical agreements might help smaller parties to gain seats anyway.
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Why does the government formation process tend to be so fast in Denmark?
The biggest difference to e.g. Germany is that the minor parties declare loyalty to either the left (red) or the right (blue) wing before the election. And part of the election is then that voters ...
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Dependencies, autonomous territories and the EU
It simply depends on the status of the territory: if it's part of a country which belongs to the EU then by definition it is part of the EU.
Formally British Overseas Territories are not considered ...
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History or events likely triggering or being used by Koran-burning anti-Muslim groups in Denmark and Sweden?
Russia may be funding this (source, the Guardian).
Permit for demonstration at which anti-Islam provocateur burned Muslim
holy book was paid for by far-right journalist linked to Moscow-backed
media
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Does the new Danish education law conflict with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights?
This hasn't been tested in court, but the Danish government could argue that it was consistent.
Title 3 requires "discrimination based on any ground such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin,...
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Why do some governments completely remove COVID-19 restrictions instead of keeping minimum ones?
It's hard to really know why a given government takes decisions to loosen covid restrictions (they do tend to justify themselves exhaustively when they tighten restrictions).
Part of it is that there ...
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How is judicial independence maintained under the principle of parliamentary sovereignty / supremacy?
The UK uses practical steps rather than a written constitution to maintain judicial separation from the executive
One of the key difficulties many have in judging the UK constitution is that the rules ...
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In parliamentary systems, why are Speakers of Parliament often granted special independence, despite no such protection is required in Constitution?
In many, perhaps all, countries there is the "Constitution" (a legal document) and the "constitution" (the rules and traditions which describe how the government should behave). ...
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Why did Denmark, Sweden, and Germany reject a joint investigation offered by Russia?
They also do not co-operate with each other, not just with Russia, citing "national security" as the reason. It is not very clear where is the threat to the national security here, but:
It ...
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How are levelling seats allocated in Scandinavian elections?
The system for using lists to fill the leveling seats (or "adjustment seats") varies per country. This answer summarises information from this document (PDF) published by the European Committee for ...
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"Debunking Scandinavian Envy"
You say:
they are presumably wealthy white collar workers (or even possibly succesful artists), since these are the kind of people who could afford relocating to the US in the first place, and so ...
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