Elections
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Poland: ‘By-election scare for Civic Platform’
23 April 2013301PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Italy: ‘Who can save Italy?’
15 February 20139189PresseuropThe Economist -
Czech Republic: ‘Two worlds, one choice’
25 January 2013234PresseuropHospodářské Noviny -
Czech Republic: Who will be next in the Prague Castle?
11 January 20131026 Respekt Prague -
Strauss-Kahn affair: Chronicle of a disgrace foretold
17 May 20111059 Mediapart Paris -
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: French press on “Anglo-Saxon” sex scandal
16 May 2011255PresseuropPresseurop -
Germany: Corporate panic over Green victory
29 March 2011PresseuropHandelsblatt -
EUROPHRENIA: Whoever wins, the rain will raineth every day
5 May 2010PresseuropBlog -
United Kingdom: Barack Brown woos Clegg-Obama
21 April 2010PresseuropThe Independent -
United Kingdom: Is underdog Clegg the new Obama?
20 April 2010PresseuropThe Guardian -
United Kingdom: Britain watches first ever TV election debate
15 April 2010PresseuropThe Independent -
United Kingdom: Immigration centre of election debate
12 April 2010PresseuropThe Times -
United Kingdom: Brown calls May 6th election
6 April 2010PresseuropThe Guardian -
European Parliament: "Westerners" remain the masters of invective
9 March 2010251 România libera Bucharest -
United Kingdom: Can somebody please fix Britain?
9 February 2010PresseuropThe Times -
Romania: Geoană, president for a night
7 December 2009PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
Romania: Even split in first round of elections
23 November 2009PresseuropRomânia libera -
Romania: Election brings out Africa obsession
20 November 2009PresseuropGandul -
Economic crisis: Romania goes deeper into recession
13 November 2009PresseuropAdevărul -
Politics: Place your bets for the Romanian president
27 October 2009PresseuropEvenimentul zilei -
Politics: Romanian government signs and falls
13 October 2009PresseuropCotidianul -
Romania: Government in triple trouble
1 October 2009PresseuropCotidianul -
United Kingdom : Soaraway Sun swings back to Tories
30 September 2009PresseuropThe Sun -
Germany: SPD goes belly up
30 September 2009PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
Romania: Who's afraid of Szeklerland?
29 September 2009112 Evenimentul zilei Bucharest -
German elections: Free-market liberals take European helm
29 September 2009PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
European Left: The last days of socialism
29 September 2009PresseuropInternational Herald Tribune -
Germany: Battle not over yet for Merkel
28 September 2009Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Iberian peninsula: Portugal warms to Spain
28 September 20091 La Vanguardia Barcelona -
Editorial: Angela and us
28 September 2009Presseurop -
German elections: The big sleep
25 September 2009Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Editorial: From Pittsburgh to Lisbon
25 September 2009Presseurop -
Lisbon treaty: Ireland should say Yes, for Germany
23 September 2009Irish Independent Dublin -
German Elections : Voting for number 1
21 September 2009Die Zeit Hamburg -
Lisbon Treaty: Berlin says Ja
9 September 2009PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
Afghanistan: Germany's good war unravels
7 September 20092 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Germany: OSCE to monitor general elections
10 August 2009PresseuropDer Spiegel -
Competitiveness: German economy not so wonderful
7 August 2009PresseuropThe Economist -
Germany: Ghost comes back to haunt CDU
4 August 2009PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
Germany: SPD craves new blood
31 July 2009PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Urban planning: Vauban, the revolution will not be motorised
30 June 2009158 The Independent London -
European Parliament: When Green shades into blue
16 June 2009111 Presseurop -
European elections: That Weimar feeling
12 June 20092 Presseurop -
Sweden : The Pirates have landed
10 June 200919 Fokus Stockholm -
European elections: Left tongue tied as right takes all
8 June 20092 La Repubblica Rome -
European Elections: Ireland's Eurosceptics unmasked
8 June 2009PresseuropThe Irish Times -
European elections: Global vote, local mindset
8 June 20092 El País Madrid -
Czech Republic: Topolánek pulls off election victory
8 June 2009PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
France: Jolly Green giant
8 June 2009PresseuropLibération -
Italy: Berlusconi - Laughing all the way to the polls
6 June 2009PresseuropBlog
Later this month, the Czechs will elect their first president by universal suffrage. In a country with a long history of strong leaders, the role has often taken on more importance than was codified in the constitution, running the risk of weakening the state, says Respekt. 
The sudden fall from grace of Dominique Strauss-Kahn has raised two big questions in France. What now for the left that had pinned all its hope on the IMF chief to beat Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 presidential elections? And why have the media been silent for years as to his troubled relations with women? 
We were inured to the foul mouths of populist MEPs from the new member states who took their seats in Strasbourg last June. But they can’t hold a candle to their Western European counterparts, recounts România liberă.
In the run-up to the 22 November presidential election in Romania, leaders of Transylvania's Magyar community are campaigning for an autonomous Szeklerland. But in a region where Magyars and Romanians live happily side by side, the local population appears largely indifferent to demands for independence, notes Evenimentul Zilei
Having been elected for a second term in office with the coalition she wants, the Chancellor will now have to take responsibility for her choices, notes Süddeutsche Zeitung. The main stumbling block may be her new coalition partner, who could make her unpopular. 
Relations between the two Iberian neighbours were one of the main subjects of Portugal's recent elections won by outgoing socialist prime minister José Sócrates. Seen from Barcelona, the result is proof of a desire for greater integration in the peninsula, writes analyst Enric Juliana. 
The big issues have been given a wide berth in the campaign for Germany’s general elections on 27 September. It’s a shame the big parties are so afraid of unsettling the electorate, bemoans the novelist Elke Schmitter. After all, politics is also about trying to change the world we live in. 
Angela Merkel is likely to be re-elected as chancellor this Sunday. Unlike her predecessors shaped by Germany’s troubled history, she demonstrates little of their enthusiasm for a European project which has been of such great benefit for smaller nations. Thomas Molloy argues that this is one reason why the Irish should endorse the Lisbon Treaty in the October 2. 
A lukewarm election campaign is burbling boringly through the Berlin autumn. Politicians in deep sleep, inveighs the indignant German press, which is looking in vain for a chancellorship duel with some political substance. No wonder, opines Richard David Precht in Die Zeit: the hyper-individualised, blasé German voter only votes for one candidate: himself.
After German-ordered airstrikes on two fuel tankers in northern Afghanistan caused massive civilian casualties, European coalition partners are heaping censure on the Bundeswehr. Premature and risky reproaches, says the Süddeutsche Zeitung, which nonetheless go to show that the war finally has to come to the fore in the upcoming electoral campaign. 
In a suburb of Freiburg, south-west Germany, a former army camp has been turned into an ecologist’s paradise. No cars, sustainable homes, with a socially homogenous profile. But is it an ideal society? Tony Paterson at the Independent is not quite sure. 
With 48 MEPs – up 14 on the 2004 elections - will Europe’s ecologists become a force in the EU parliament ? Some commentators are none too convinced while others have noticed that this traditionally left-wing movement has taken a right turn. 
Some commentators see a parallel between the breakthrough of the extreme right in the European parliament and Hitler's rise to power. But should we really be concerned? 
One of the big surprises of the European election came from Scandinavia. On 7.1% of the vote, the Pirate party is setting sail for Brussels, with the aim to legalise file sharing on the Internet, and presenting itself as a defender of citizens rights. 
Whether in power or oppostion, conservative parties have benefited from the electorate’s anxiety about the recession. In decline throughout the EU, the left is going through “a language crisis”. It no longer knows how to talk to its traditional base, believes La Repubblica. 
Candidates and the electorate have turned the largest transnational ballot in history into a vote on national issues. A pity, says El Pais, since global problems increasingly require solutions that transcend borders. - 1 of 2
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