Nicolas Sarkozy has – finally – declared his candidature. In one sense, this was a mere formality as the likelihood of the incumbent President not standing for re-election was … Read the rest
Category: European Politics
Ballots and Bullets is delighted to be publishing several guest blogs from the two minds behind 500 signatures. Professor Jocelyn Evans and Dr Gilles Ivaldi offer expert insight into … Read the rest
Last month, it was announced that a 12.5km border wall between Greece and Turkey will be complete within 5 months. The EU is not happy with the plans. Already labelled … Read the rest
Ballots and Bullets is delighted to be publishing several guest blogs from the two minds behind the blog 500 signatures. Professor Jocelyn Evans and Dr Gilles Ivaldi offer expert … Read the rest
Ballots and Bullets are delighted to be publishing the first of several special blogs from the two minds behind the blog 500 signatures. Professor Jocelyn Evans and Dr Gilles … Read the rest
“The sprint is the most subtle form of track competition […] Sprinters will bring their bikes to a complete standstill in an attempt to force the other man to lead … Read the rest
For a Swiss-watcher, recent events in Georgia have created an unexpected flurry of excitement. Moscow’s 18 year wait to join the World Trade Organization inched a step closer with the … Read the rest
1. Governments lose elections more than oppositions win them. It’s an old adage in politics, but these elections really underlined how voters had got fed up with the ruling centre-left … Read the rest
In March 2004, it was confidently predicted that the ruling right-wing Partido Popular (PP) would see a repeat of the electoral victory which four years earlier had delivered an absolute … Read the rest
The recent attacks in Oslo and Utøya by ‘lone wolf’ Anders Behring Breivik have prompted a tidal wave of reaction and analysis in the international press and blogosphere.
Here, Ballots … Read the rest