Nice intro to one of the (many) forgotten wannabe states of the Caucasus: “It’s basically 75,000 people living on rocks”

Using arch eurosceptic Iain Duncan Smith’s own words to show how referenda are silly. Top stuff!

Moscow Warns against NATO Membership for Georgia, Ukraine – nice…

Really? I never would have guessed… (Merkel, however, for no apparent reason seemed to think otehrwise – is she finally losing the plot?)

Very cunning – the opposition’s even more hardline. Either way, a renewed democratic mandate to oppose Kosovo’s independence. Situation escalates. Fun fun fun…

Very handy introduction to the issues behind today’s Spanish elections for those of us who haven’t been paying much attention

Probably your best bet for regular English-language updates on the Spanish elections today. And yes, yes it is a blog.

This time a bit more in-depth and policy-focussed, from the chap behind Iberian Notes.

Erm… Why the US and not the EU, exactly, if the UN’s failed? Something rather odd’s going on here…