The last time Croatians voted in a referendum it was to decide whether – 21 years after the country broke away from Yugoslavia and declared independence – it should join the European Union.
Over the years, it has had to consider many issues -- whether Christianity, rather than the worship of Odin, should be the national religion, for example; whether women should be hanged, drowned or beheaded for adultery (the decision was drowning, and a special spot in a nearby stream was renamed the Women's Pool); or just how much independence it should dare to demand from Denmark.
The new charter must also set clear limits on the National Audit Office's oversight of BBC activities to protect editorial independence, and it should report to the BBC board, not to parliament.
Nuclear power is a necessary component of our quest for energy independence, and it should not be abandoned no matter how horrific the scenes are coming out of Japan.
In after-dinner conversation at his home near Versailles, Laboulaye, an ardent supporter of the Union in the American Civil War, is supposed to have said: "If a monument should rise in the United States, as a memorial to their independence, I should think it only natural if it were built by united effort a common work of both our nations".
The European Union official in charge of foreign and security policy, Javier Solana, left, said that the union opposed any moves by Montenegro toward independence and that it should remain within the Yugoslav federation with Serbia.
The idea took hold that work should rehabilitate the workhouse inmates for their eventual independence, and that it should therefore be rewarded with no more than the workers' maintenance, otherwise there would be no incentive for them to seek work elsewhere.
It should promote independence and autonomy, offering people the desired level of control over their services, and support in handling that responsibility (AARP, 2013; NCD, 2005).
If you practice the two ball technique with each of your hands separately, it should increase independence in each hand, helping you work up to throwing at different times.
And yet, in the dispute over Badme, Eritrea is also right; and, as its tenacious independence struggle should suggest, it is unlikely to forget it.
In January, a referendum is scheduled in southern Sudan to decide whether it should secede and declare independence.
