In a second attempt, Giuseppe Conte managed to become Italy’s new prime minister and to form a government that was both...

In the light of the fairy-tale coalition program of the Italian populist parties Five-Star-Movement and Lega, which promise at...

Italy’s political turmoil is far from over. Luigi Di Maio, the leader of the populist Five-Star-Movement, wants the Italian...

Giuseppe Conte is now indeed Italy’s new prime minister, but it took a second attempt. On June 1, Conte presented another...

Whenever you think it impossible to find a president more incompetent than the previous one, the US electorate proves you wrong. After Bush The Torturer, they found Obama The Messiah and...

As the polls had predicted, the Social Democrats (SPD) say Yes to another grand coalition with Merkel’s Christian Democrats...

Updated on February 16, 2018 at 09:34 Berlin time: According to a poll by Infratest Dimap for the German public television...

According to news reports, it began in Mashhad on December 28, 2017 as a preplanned celebration of the anniversary of the...

Added on December 21, 2017 at 22:16 German time: Today, December 21, 2017 a total of 128 countries in the United Nations General...

Is Merkel history? Unfortunately not yet. The so-called “Jamaica” coalition talks collapsed with the economically liberal FDP walking out. The FDP mentioned 237 points of contention...

The Catalan mess is nothing to be proud of. All sides are to blame for the current crisis, including the Spanish Prime Minister...

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has rightly suffered a terrible defeat in the 2017 German federal election (article in German). Nevertheless, she can most likely stay in office as head...

In September 2015, we concluded that Austria was moving to the right. Since then, two new leaders on the left and right have emerged. The Social Democratic leader Christian Kern (SPÖ;...

The new prime minister, the minister of the economy and the budget minister of President Macron’s government all come from...

So far, the new French President Macron and his La République en marche (REM) have only nominated candidates in 428 out of 577...

The newly elected French president, with whom will he govern? According to the first estimation published by the French public television France 2 at 20:00 Paris time, as predicted by all...

Last update on May 4, 2017 at 08:33 Paris time: According to a poll by Elabe for BFMTV, 63% of the debate viewers saw Emmanuel...

In the French presidential runoff, Macron vs. Le Pen, the question is not who will win (Macron), but with whom will he govern, and what will he do? Already after the first round of voting...

What a presidential election in France! President Hollande’s approval ratings were so catastrophic that he renounced to...

Last update on March 21, 2017 at 10:52 Paris time: According to a poll published after the debate by Elabe for BFMTV, Emmanuel Macron was considered the most convincing of the five...