Today's topic is referendums in the European Union.

The reason why we want to talk about this topic is because referendums in the European Union. The reason why we want to talk about this topic

is because referendums are playing an ever-increasing role in political decisions and policy-related

decisions in a lot of places in the world, especially here in Europe. So we're going to be

talking about referendums that are related to EU matters, but also

about referendums that happen in the European continent that have nothing to do with European

related matters. And before kicking off the episode, I want to quote someone who gave a speech on June the 24th, 2016. That person said the

following. We should be proud of the fact that in these islands we trust the people with these

big decisions. We not only have a parliamentary democracy, but on questions about the

arrangements for how we are governed, there are times when it is right to ask the people

themselves, and that is what we have done. The British people have voted to leave the European

Union, and their will must be respected. The will of the British people is an instruction

that must be delivered. It was not a

decision that was taken lightly.

I wish Mr. Cameron had known back then that the second most search question on Google, after the pole stations closed on June

the 23rd, was, what is the EU? So, UK citizens were just 100% sure that they may have perhaps

made a terrible blunder and they wanted to know exactly what they had gotten themselves

into. In any case, we're not going to talk today about Brexit. I know a lot of you outside might be

thinking about this because of the relevance and because of the importance, but this episode is

not about that. This episode goes beyond that. And Brexit is just perhaps one of the most

famous and recent

examples of what a referendum is and the consequences that it may have, even if it's non-binding,

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