Happy Birthday, Your Serene Highness!

Best wishes to Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, on his 74^th birthday!

Liechtenstien National Day

Happy National Day!

Hoch leb' der Fürst vom Land!

Happy Birthday, Your Serene Highness!

Best wishes to Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, on his 73^rd birthday!

National Day of Liechtenstein

Happy National Day!

Hoch leb' der Fürst vom Land!

Happy Birthday, Your Serene Highness!

Best wishes to Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, on his 72^nd birthday!

Nationaltag in Liechtenstein

Happy National Day!

Hoch leb' der Fürst vom Land!

Happy Birthday, Your Serene Highness!

Best wishes to Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, on his 71^st birthday!

Liechtensteiner Nationaltag

Happy National Day!

Hoch leb' der Fürst vom Land!

Hans-Adam II 70

Best wishes to Hans-Adam II, Sovereign Prince of Liechtenstein, on his 70^th birthday!

An interview on the occasion of last November's 25^th accession anniversary (in Dutch, but the interview itself in English):

National Day in Liechtenstein

Happy National Day!

Today is also the tenth anniversary of Hereditary Prince Alois as permanent regent.

Hoch leb' der Fürst vom Land!

Happy Birthday, Your Serene Highness!

Best wishes to Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, on his 69^th birthday!

Liechtenstein National Day

Happy National Day!

Hoch leb' der Fürst vom Land!

Happy Birthday, Your Serene Highness!

Best wishes to Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, on his 68^th birthday!

An American Self-Determinist on Liechtenstein

Over at the Second Vermont Republic website, Thomas H. Naylor reflects on the Principality of Liechtenstein and her Sovereign Prince, Hans-Adam II.

Happy National Day, Liechtenstein!

Hoch leb' der Fürst vom Land!

Victory in Liechtenstein!

The initiative to remove the right of the Prince of Liechtenstein to deny assent to popular referenda has failed – fortunately and expectedly. More than three fourths supported retention of this right. More than four fifths turned up for the referendum.

BBC News reports. So does The Globe and Mail. Google News has more.

Hoch leb' der Fürst vom Land!

This blogger has noticed that Liechtenstein is repeatedly referred to as the only monarchy in Europe where the monarch has any real powers to speak of left. Let us not forget the Principality of Monaco.


Elsewhere: Royal World (and pre-referendum)

Liechtensteiners Vote Sunday

All the best wishes for Sunday's referendum in Liechtenstein – for the initiative to be rejected.

Hoch leb' der Fürst vom Land!

Liechtensteiners to Vote on Assent

Apparently, the initiative for a referendum on the right to deny assent to referenda in the Principality of Liechtenstein has succeeded. Liechtensteiner Vaterland reports (in German) that there are 1732 signatories. The initiative apparently does not involve the right to deny assent to issues not put to a referendum.

Your host blogger wishes the referendum to fail.

A Challenge to Assent

A conflict over regal powers is ongoing in the Principality of Liechtenstein. So the Bangkok Post reports.

Happy Birthday, Your Serene Highness!

Best wishes to His Serene Highness Hans-Adam II, Sovereign Prince of Liechtenstein, on his 67^th birthday!

Recently, the Norwegian daily newspaper Aftenposten ran a story on Liechtenstein and Norwegian foreign policy, the main points apparently being:

• a tax haven having a right of veto over Norwegian foreign policy.
• Liechtenstein having strong democratic shortcomings.

This blogger would add:

• A tax haven having a right of veto over a tax tyranny couldn't be all that bad? Perhaps this should be expanded to other policy areas as well?
• While there certainly could be problems with systems that have democratic shortcomings, Liechtenstein's system is overall not one of them. Too much democracy is a problem in Europe. The media should be better at challenging the democratism of our time.