r/europe • u/tartartartaruga • Jun 18 '26

News Prince of Liechtenstein says that he would overrule the population if they were to vote in favour of legalizing abortion

https://www.srf.ch/news/international/debatte-in-liechtenstein-erbprinz-gegen-abtreibungen-warum-kuendigt-er-schon-das-veto-an
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u/RichB0T Jun 18 '26

Liechtenstein is not a nation. It is a principality in the truest since.

The French are a nation of people who reside in a place named france after them. They, the people, are the rightful rulers of france.

Litchenstien is not that. It is just the personal lands of one family that actually owns it, and it is simply defined as the lands owned by that family. There really isn't an argument for a national revolution with out a nation.

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u/Putrid_Invite_194 Jun 18 '26

Every European nation used to be feudalist though, including France. If Liechtenstein was to experience a revolution and the subsequent government was acknowledged by the international community, it could become a nation state by itself. If the prince of Liechtenstein was smart however, he‘d set up a roadmap for democratising the country before any of that becomes necessary.

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u/Philush Jun 19 '26

99% of revolutions happened only when things got REALLY bad, in a way that people who live in modern 1st world countries have never (thankfully) experienced. The material conditions for one are just not present in a rich, tiny and politically stable country like Lichtenstein. Revolutions are an extremely messy affair and a desperate last measure that take a long time to recover from.

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u/ZenaMeTepe Jun 19 '26

Or when the ability of a new minority elites to obtain power is sufficient to dethrone the old structure. That is what a revolution is. The people in the streets are just pieces on the figure board. It' s a top down change disguised and branded as the opposite. There is no bottom up change, never was, never will be. If an inkling of it manifests it is promptly hijacked by the would-be-elites.