Promising-looking new EU / economics site

Dear Christ… Just as I was starting to like Sarkozy, he comes up with this little suggestion again…

Wonderfully pessimistic, or worryingly prescient?

According to the latest Freedom House report, at least

Don’t you wish Merkel would make up her mind?

Constitutional reforms scale back French presidential prerogative

On the disappearance of Latvian money-making proto-chavs

A handy introduction

Personally Immortality’s my favourite Kundera, but still – fascinating stuff on the significance of his breakthrough work, 22 years on

Introducing the Democratic Party Of Russia