Note to selt: to be read at some point when I have more time. Looks promising

And again

And yet again

“From radical right-wingers to authoritarian post-communists, the political landscape lacks a center”

“The process — which will continue to transform Turkey — is more important than the final outcome, Erdogan told Sarkozy” – too right.

Sarkozy’s “Mediterranean Union” idea is gets public backing from Italy

“Corruption, chaos and extremism are depressingly recurrent themes in Eastern Europe’s political scenery”

Some of the stuff going on in France is pointing the way for the next round of civil liberties battles