What’s the difference between Belarus and Zimbabwe? It’s a genuine question – the UN’s reject Belarus for a seat on the human rights panel, but allowed Zimbabwe to chair the sustainable development group? Eh? (tags: Belarus UN Africa) Turkey not … Continue reading →

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss (Only a bit more Scottish). Yep, it’s Prime Minister Brown… (tags: Britain Labour) More on the proposed EU opt-outs for the UK Hurrah! EU Referendum finally seems to be covering the … Continue reading →

Slagging off eastern Europe The press’ lack of knowledge of the new EU countries (tags: EU Eastern_Europe) Germany fails to save EU-Russia summit agenda There’s a surprise – Putin seems to be having fun with this (tags: Russia Germany EU) … Continue reading →

Herzog’s EU plans DJ Nozem on yet more proposals for EU reform (tags: EU) Moldova, Romania and Ukraine A journey on the EU’s forgotten frontier (tags: Ukraine Moldova Transdniester Romania) Anti-Semitism in Europe Myth or Reality? (tags: Europe) Ukraine and … Continue reading →

Ruling coalition on verge of collapse The aftermath of the Icelandic elections (tags: Iceland) Russia cafe blast leaves 10 dead It wouldn’t be the run-up to Russian elections without a few “terrorist” incidents… (*ahem*) (tags: Russia) Bertie Ahern An interesting … Continue reading →

Armenian opposition sour grapes Despite the best efforts of the UK and US, the election goes the way of the ruling party, apparently with no fraud (tags: Armenia) Iceland government holds on to power By a one seat majority (tags: … Continue reading →

Polish court acts (fairly) sanely “Jerzy Stepien, the tribunal’s presiding judge, said the law’s scope had been too wide and that lustration should only apply to senior officials” (tags: Poland) Armenian elections A rough guide to past fraud and future … Continue reading →

Proportional Representation: lessons from Finland “It’s clearly a terrible way to rule a country. I wonder how we’ve managed to sustain it for 100 years.” (tags: Finland Elections) Peter Mandelson likes… David Cameron? Makes sense, I suppose… (tags: EU Conservatives) … Continue reading →

The EU’s appeasement of Russia Ignore the wildly inaccurate Ukraine stuff, the rest is quite interesting (tags: Russia EU) Northern Irish devolution 1 A mini roundup (tags: Ireland) Scotland and Proportional Representation People still don’t get it (tags: Britain Elections) … Continue reading →