The Netherlands will hold a referendum on the EU-Ukraine association agreement, the Dutch electoral council confirmed on Wednesday (14 October).
It said it had verified the validity of the signatures collected by a citizens' petition.
It received 472,849 requests for the referendum. Base on a sample, it determined that 90.6 percent, or 427,939 of the requests, are valid.
“With this, the legal threshold [of 300,000 required signatures] has been passed amply, so a referendum ...
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