T he incumbent Hassan Rouhani has been selected, not elected, to a second-term as the mullahs’ president in Iran.
At 12:30 pm local time reports from inside Iran announced the near final results, claiming…
P resident Erdoğan's march on the road map, very clearly defined by him for long, proceeds with no hurdles.
On Sunday, he was re-elected as party chairman after nearly 1000 days of absence, and,…
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by Joseph Hammond*
One of the first tests Emmanuel Marcon will face as French president is also an…
by Žiga Turk
In the EU we have the luxury reflecting upon if we would rather have a one-speed or two-speed Europe, we complain that governments don’t do this and the EU does not do that.…
I have the bitter sense that we passed that despicable threshold, perhaps to a point of no return. The result of the referendum was the sealing of an autocratic rule; a stamp for…
T he brawl that erupted after the referendum will not easily go away. So, as predicted, post-referendum Turkey is now dragged into a deeper crisis.
'No' camp had dreaded secretly that if 'yes'…
T he referendum on 16 April was the last station -until the next one- in the path to oriental authoritarianism which Tayyip Erdogan, the domineering protagonist of the Turkish political sphere since 2002, has…
W hat political dilemma is the regime in Iran intending to resolve through this presidential election?
In 2005, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, having the final say in all state matters, thought to spread his…
by Vincenzo Scarpetta
European Council President Donald Tusk is a man of his word. He promised he would have a first draft of the Brexit negotiating guidelines for the 27 remaining EU member states ready within…
by Kata Szabó
Thousands of people are protesting against the close down of the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. A political battle about “foreign influences” and pro or anti EU, US or Russia sentiments.
With the…