The new Italian government has been sworn in today by President Mattarella. The old is also the new prime minister: Giuseppe...

A few minutes ago, the government of Boris Johnson was defeated. The House of Commons voted 328 to 301 to take control of the...

With today’s defection of the Tory MP Phillip Lee to the Liberal Democrats, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has no...

In the 2019 Brandenburg state election, the coalition of SPD and The Left was voted out, the populist, right-wing AfD is on the...

On Sunday, September 1, in the regional election in Saxony, the coalition of CDU and SPD lost the majority. 66.6% of the 3.287568...

In 2003, I first heard Christian Thielemann live conducting Wagner during his term as Generalmusikdirektor at Deutsche Oper...

A book review of Colin Imber’s third edition of The Ottoman Empire (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr) has first to note that this book was first published in 2002 and...

Dear Republicans, what has happened to the party of free trade and fiscal discipline? Where are the Tea Party people? Trump might...

The Moldovan parliamentary election of February 24, 2019 led to a silent revolution in the tiny Eastern European state with less than 3 million inhabitants; roughly one million Moldovans...

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the Servant of the People party (Sluha Narodu) of President Volodymyr Zelenski...

The results of the Conservative Party leadership contest have been published today. The former foreign secretary and former...

In mid-June, as every year, any self-respecting collector, museum director and art lover travels to Switzerland for the world’s leading art fair. A look back at Art Basel 2019 proofs...

On July 6, 2019 the now famous Rag ‘n’ Bone Man was back at the Montreux Jazz Festival (MJF) where, in 2016, his...

As for the March 31, 2019 mayoral election, for the June 23, 2019 rerun, some 84% of the roughly 10.5 million Istanbul voters...

The great German chef Holger Zurbrüggen was born in the city of Greven in North Rhine-Westphalia on January 21, 1966. His father ran a restaurant, his brother was a trained chef. Holger...

In June 2019, towards the end of the asparagues season, I walked along Berlin’s river Spree and saw a restaurant...

On 9 June 2019 over 1 million Hong Kong people took to the streets to protest against the attempt by the administration of Carrie...

Amin Saikal is professor of political science, public policy fellow and director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. His 2019 book...

In seven phases from April 11 until May 19, 2019 some 900 million Indian voters had the chance to elect their 543 Lower House...

Currently, in seven phases from April 11 until May 19, 2019 some 900 million Indians are eligible to vote in the parliamentary...