Talk:List of European Union member states by political system

message: The term "competences" is used a lot on this page, and does not have a wikilink pointing to a discussion of what it means in this context. The best I can find from the disambiguation page Competence is Competence (law), but that deals with the ability of a person to be tried criminally, not with rights & responsibilities of governmental bodies. -- Tmhand 15:01, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I wasn't able to find anything suitable, either... —Nightstallion (?) 06:05, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Competence? 

message: Is the word "list" in this article's title really appropriate? Although half is a list, the other half is prose and I can see the prose developing further. --Oldak Quill 15:59, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: shrugs List of European Union member states, which BTW needs a name change -- see talk page, has about as much prose, but it would never have passed FA; FL was possible, though. I suspect that this list will also not be able to become a FA, but a FL should be possible, as well. —Nightstallion (?) 18:12, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that this is a list. The list of Category 5 Pacific hurricanes is an FL and it has a large amount of prose. The reason I think that this is a list is the fact that the key information here is not the explanations of what a presidential system or legislature is but rather the categorization of the member states using the criteria that is explained by the prose. Theoretically, you could remove almost all of the prose and simply use wikilinks in table headings and picture headings to accomplish the same thing. In that case all of the explanations are external to this article rather than internal to it. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 21:15, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Mentioning Featured Lists, geez this is almost up to the standard.  A very very good job. --210.86.116.67 23:12, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That *was* my intention, yes. I'll put it up for FL review some time soon. I've put it up for FL status now.  —Nightstallion (?) 06:05, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this a list? 

message: I've removed the section for the following reasons: It was factually wrong ("dictatorship" is not a form of government); and it didn't fit into the scope of this article (it would fit into Politics of Europe with a few changes, though). Hope that's okay. —Nightstallion (?) 21:09, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think something like this section would be useful to put the EU's political systems in regional perspective. How about a section on EU candidate states? On the dictatorship issue - this article refers several times to the EU members being 'democratic' and that 'democracy' must be guaranteed as a criteria for membership. The definition of a democracy is entirely subjective, however, its opposite is clearly 'dictatorship'. And it is interesting that there are a number of states in europe which are offically considered to be dictatorships by the EU. Seabhcán 22:37, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, you didn't label Russia, Algeria and Morocco as dictatorships, and they most certainly are (check Freedom House). Also, you coloured a part of Ukraine as a dictatorship, while the rest was red for presidential system...  But fair enough, I'll whip something up about the Union's neighbours. —Nightstallion (?) 05:39, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

text: I've included a short section about democracy in the first section. —Nightstallion (?) 06:25, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I like those changes you made. Great article by the way. Seabhcán 23:06, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks on both accounts.  —Nightstallion (?) 05:40, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section on EU neighbours 

message: I'm not sure how relevant the information from Freedom House is to this article.  It seems that they have nothing to do with Europe in particular? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.31.116.8 (talk • contribs) 
:It puts the European countries in regional context. Self-Described Seabhcán 09:16, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Importance of Freedom House stats? 

message: A while ago I changes two of the images to their SVG versions, which was reverted for the following reason: "sorry, but I disagree; most people, including me, have no easy means of updating svgs." Aside from the Freedom House image, for which there is no SVG, I don't see a call for updating them. How soon do you think a member will get a second chamber, or turn republic? A third SVG has now been corrected (Italy was missing which is why I didn't put it up) so we have three SVGs, which look very good. I reckon we could include them, I'm sure the editor who created them would be willing to convert the fourth if we actualy use the three he has already done for us. - J Logan t: 15:01, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mh. There is a call for updating them, if you ask me -- new members are joining regularily. ... I would be okay with using SVGs, I guess, if they're precise conversions of the current maps (including colour, size of the map, and so on and so forth). —Nightstallion 09:28, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well that is two years away at best, I see yout point though. If we do make sure they are the same colour etc, then if something changes we could switch back to the png's we can update till the SVG's are updated by someone with the tech? - J Logan t: 17:13, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mh, yeah, possibly. I'll look into it, I may actually have a program somewhere with which I can convert the PNGs to SVGs. —Nightstallion 19:05, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
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message: Quoting the article:
By definition, constitutional monarchies are parliamentary, as there is no elected head of state who could assume non-ceremonial competences; ...
This seems dubious to me. The first counter-example that comes to mind is the Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946). It was always, at least on paper, even under Mussolini, a constitutional monarchy due to the Statuto Albertino, but hardly a parliamentary system. Another is Denmark, which became a constitutional monarchy in 1849, but the government did not depend on parliamentary support until 1901. Hemmingsen 16:25, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: How about we use "modern democratic constitutional monarchies" instead, so that those two cases are not included? —Nightstallion 11:44, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That would indeed prevent those two cases from being included. The only other situation I can think of is the theoretical possibility of a constitutional monarchy with a directly elected prime minister, but "modern" does seem to imply that we are only discussing existing states, so your suggestion is acceptable to me. Hemmingsen 18:28, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good, changed it. —Nightstallion 14:59, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Hemmingsen 06:41, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "By definition, constitutional monarchies are parliamentary"?

message: The english translation of Dáil Éireann is House of Representatives as per the Irish Constitution a House of Representatives to be called Dáil Éireann  --Barryob  (Contribs) (Talk) 18:53, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, that's the English *name*, not the English *translation* of "Dáil Éireann". —Nightstallion 13:56, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It has been translated as three separate names in English the current translation is House of Representatives   --Barryob  (Contribs) (Talk) 12:57, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahem, no. "Dáil Éireann" can only mean one thing, no matter what the *English name* is. The *translation*, not the *name*, of "Dáil Éireann" is what's in the table. —Nightstallion 13:35, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What ? Dáil can mean more than thing the Oireachtas own website calls it the House of Representative the discussion on the dáil talk page list the three translations.--Barryob  (Contribs) (Talk) 18:20, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The Irish word "dáil" has a single set of possible English words to which it translates, of which "council" appears to be the best fit. "House of Representatives" is not a translation, but the English name. —Nightstallion 11:25, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

text: I'm also fine with the way you changed it, except for the fact that you didn't put the footnote in the right place; I've corrected that now, though, so everything should be in order. —Nightstallion 23:21, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

text: OK, thanks. jnestorius(talk) 00:36, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dáil Éireann 

message: Am I the only one seeing the slight formatting error in the lists? Just wondering as it seems to have been there for an while an everyone is editing like it is fine. Whenever the lang template is used in the links on the lists, the link fails to work.- J.Logan`t: 21:26, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it looks like the lang template kills the links. I'm removing them. - SSJ ☎ 22:08, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Speaking of errors, I was looking at the list of states at the bottom and hovered my cursor on the unitary link and saw the map showing which countries were Unitary in blue, and noticed that Denmark is supposedly Unitary, but when I look at the list it is listed under 'Federate' and shows up further down, so which is it? Seems like something is wrong, either the list or the unitary page --2A02:AA7:4605:7538:1DD5:3B1E:477A:CB24 (talk) 21:43, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  List error 

message: On the "Degree of self-governance", replace "in the Netherlands, the Caribbean island groups of Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles are equal partners to the Netherlands within the Kingdom of the Netherlands" by "in the Netherlands, the Caribbean island groups of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten are equal partners to the Netherlands within the Kingdom of the Netherlands" (The Netherlands Antilles were abolished on 10 October 2010)
81.84.85.217 (talk) 18:26, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, thank you for notification Petrb (talk) 20:38, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
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message: Hello,
I think you should change the political system of Finland and Romania: in these countries, the prime minister is the head of government and he has the executive power. The President is the head of state and has not power on the policies in his country. France, for example, is a real semi-presidential state: the President is a member of a political party and manages the foreign policies and the internal policies, and the deputies vote laws.
Djsahm (talk) 16:40, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: They are, constitutionally, semi-presidential systems. —Nightstallion 15:46, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Djsahm, 7 May 2011 

message: The Mount Athos is an autonomous state inside the Greek state.
95.17.44.74 (talk) 03:12, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greece is not unitary : Mount Athos 

message: Can we get a reference describing Portugal as semi-presidential? Which of the powers of the President of Portugal elevates the system from parliamentary to semi-presidential? Ability to dissolve parliament without prerequisites? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 23:10, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The President is elected by universal suffrage for a 5-year term, and can renew it once. He can reject the government suggested by the incumbent Prime Minister, has power of veto, may dissolve the parliament and dismiss the Government. Jorge Sampaio dismissed the Pedro Santana Lopes' Government in 2004.  82.154.137.87 (talk) 00:00, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  You also may want to read the Role section where it refers the dismiss of that government by Sampaio. 82.154.137.87 (talk) 00:00, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portugal semi-presidential 

message: I'd suggest to insert a link to this Guardian infographic with a historical series on politics and governments in EU member states--78.13.182.22 (talk) 10:28, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guardian infographic 

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message: The latest image to represent the spread of unicameral / bicameral parliaments as introduced an error (as of 12th May 2020).
The new version of the image presents Ireland as unicameral when it is in fact bicameral (this is stated accurately in the section beneath).
I can't figure out how to revert to the previous version (i'm an occasional contributor to wikipedia, and I don't get involved with images).
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replies: text: I have contacted the original author of the image. AndreasBM (talk) 08:54, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
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message: Denmark is listed as a federacy, and it can be argued that it is indeed actually a federacy, but formally it is a unitary state, see e.g. https://portal.cor.europa.eu/divisionpowers/Pages/Denmark-Introduction.aspx
Does this list assign the categories by the formal or actual situation?
--AndreasBM (talk) 08:53, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
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