Welsh Assembly

Last week, I was talk about some information about the British House of Parliament in my blog and this week, I will discuss the Welsh Assembly. Wales is located in the west of the UK and it has own language – Welsh. Therefore, before I begin to describe it, I will introduce a few words of Welsh. The first is ‘Senedd’, it means parliament. Then is ‘Neuadd’, it is same as hall. Thirdly is ‘Oriel’, it implies gallery. The end is ‘Siambr’, it means chamber.

The tour of the Senedd is located in the capital of Wales – Cardiff and it was opened in 2006. And the same time, the Senedd building is a symbolic building in Wales. And this building’s establish means the history of devolution. The devolution is implies the process of declining from a higher to lower, vitality or essential quality.

This Wednesday, we were visited the Senedd, it is look grand and magnificent. And it also has some building beside the Senedd. When I stood in front of the Senedd, we can see David St Hotel, Pier Head and Penth House.

When I enter the gate, we can see a large space houses, this house is the reception area and it use for staffs reception the visitor. If you need some help or questions, you can answer the staff in this area. It has Welsh name of reception -- Neuadd.

Look the photo, in the centre of the building, it has a large funnel at the top of the stairs and it is called Oriel. This funnel is use for  reflect natural light downwards into the Siambr. And the funnel is like a tree because it can be encourage the visitor to meet here and share ideas.

And it has provides the public gallery for visitors. The visitor can access to a screen on watch the proceedings. And they can through the cameras to see what is happen in the Siambr and it also use the headphone to translation from English to Welsh. The plenary meeting is 60 Assembly Members’ weekly meetings and it takes place in the Siambr on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons between 13.30 and 18.00. This Wednesday, we were just in time for the meeting was held and we were sat and listened a few minutes. It is feel very exciting.

It has a Committee Room in the Siambr, this room use glass walls and collect natural light to lighting. I think the purpose of this room is in order to let the people can knowing the process of making laws too clearly. At the same time, the room through collect natural light to lighting can reduce energy consumption of building.

The end, when we were finished visit the building, we were gone to the shop to buy some good for your friends, family or children. In the shop, you can buy Clogau gold, Melin Tregwynt, Penderyn for friend and books, kids' products, tenth anniversary products for children.

This is tour of the Senedd, I enjoyed this trip!

Reference:
http://www.assemblywales.org/

The British House of Parliament

The British House of Parliament

The parliament is a sovereign region of legislature and it in order to limits royalty to establish. In Britain, the parliament constitutes of the House of Lords and the House of Commons. They are all in the London and near the Big Ben.

The member of the House of Lords is not through election to engender, while it is consists of Royal family and aristocrat’s member. In the last century, the House of Lords has lost most of its powers. At present, most powers are grasping by the House of Commons. Therefore, the House of Commons has more power than the House of Lords.

The member of House of Common consists of men and women and they are through election to engender. The right of House of Commons can decide national policy and each Members of Parliament (MPs) have a constituency. According to the size of city and population, some places have many constituencies, and some place just has one constituency. In the UK, the England has 529 constituencies, the Scotland has 72 constituencies, the Wales have constituencies and the Northern Ireland have 18 constituencies.

For the House of Commons, the general election is very important. Because through election, people will vote to choose a member of parliament that he/she have some special responsibility and lead to their constituency. About the general election is extremely fair and square. Firstly, the electorate need to register that they have right to vote. Then is electoral nomination, thuswise voters will know what candidates can vote. After this step, all candidates can be beginning election campaign. Through election campaign, the candidate can be undertaking to persuade people to vote them. Fourthly, the vote is start and the voter should take their result put in the ballot box. The end, through canvass and votes counted will be elect minister. It is use the ‘first past the post’ system to elect and this system is means who have acquire the most votes is winner.

These MPs and political party forms the government and the leader of that party becomes Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has right to selects a member of parliament to become minister. Nowaday, the  Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister are David Cameron and Nick Clegg. David Cameron is represent Conservative party and Nick Clegg is represent Liberal Democrats party.

(David William Donald Cameron, incumbent Prime Minister of Britain)

(Nick Clegg,  incumbent Deputy Prime Minister )

These are the British House of Parliament.

Reference：

http://thehoneyballbuzz.com/2009/12/04/european-liaison-meeting-with-the-house-of-lords-and-the-house-of-commons/

http://denning.law.ox.ac.uk/lrsp/overview/legislation.php

http://goleudy.com/gallery/

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/petermullen/100125233/nick-clegg-on-the-house-of-lords-this-is-a-man-consumed-by-the-politics-of-envy/

The European Union and Eurozone Crisis

European Union

The European Union is the European Community in the formerly, it is according to ‘Treaty on European Union’ made up an international organization by original European Communities members. Now, the European Union has 27 European countries and 23 languages. The purpose of establish the European Union is improve economic and social harmonious development and promote economic and social can be balanced development for every countries.

The European Union of flag’s colour blue and it has twelve golden stars around circle in the middle of flag. This pattern is symbolizing the Virgin Mary. It means establish a united Europe and to promote people's impression for the European Union and the European unity. The institutions of European Union are running the European Council, the Council of ministers, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the European Court of Justice.

The European Union was established after the Second World War. In 1957, it has six countries (West Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Italy) signed the Treaty of Rome. But the Britain was not joined, because of its future’s Commonwealth was in the trading modes and it have a special relationship with USA. The formation’s reason of the European Union is due to the nations of European economic and political status was fells sharply, the USA was supported the Combination of Western Europe and worry about the expansion of the Soviet Union. In the process of European Union’s unity have six times of crisis, now it also have some crisis was existed in the European Union. Then, I will discuss the crisis of European Union.

About political crisis, in 1954, The French national parliament was vetoed the European Community treaties. And in 1965, the president of French -- Charles de Gaulle was implemented ‘Empty Chair Policy’. In 1992, Danish voters was vetoed ‘Maastricht Treaty’. In 1996, due to the British was happened the mad cow disease, so the European Union was banned Britain transport the beef to another countries. In 2001, the Ireland voters was vetoed ‘Treaty of Nice’. Until 2005, the French and Netherland voters were vetoed the ‘Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe’. Except the political crisis, the national of European Union have exist some economic crisis. In 2009, because of the Greece’s financial deficits is too high, so it lead to European crisis was out broke in Greece. And in 2010, Spain, Italy, Ireland and Portugal also was happened the economic crisis.

At present, in these countries, the Greece’s economic crisis is the biggest. Although the euro zone finance minister’s member a meeting decided to help Greece solved the economic crisis, at the same time, the premier of Greece announced use austerity measures. About austerity measure is an official action taken by a government in order to reduce the amount of money that it spends or the amount that people spend. Thus, it stopped the Greece’s economic crisis to spread. However, the debt of Greece is increasingly serious. If the Greece wants to solve the debt crisis, they must with others parties to compromise agreement as soon as possible, otherwise the debt crisis of Greece will be affect others members of European Union and lead to others members of European Union has appear the economic crisis gradually.

 Refenence:
http://europa.eu/about-eu/basic-information/index_en.htm
http://europa.eu/about-eu/basic-information/symbols/index_en.htm
http://www.eucountrylist.com/
http://www.eurocartrans.org/Activities/EUAffairs/TheEUOverview.aspx
http://useconomy.about.com/od/Europe/p/Eurozone-Crisis.htm
http://lexicon.ft.com/Term?term=austerity-measure
http://europa.eu/abc/maps/members/italy_en.htm
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/it.html
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http://useconomy.about.com/od/Europe/p/Eurozone-Crisis.htm