The Russian invasion of Ukraine, the French presidential elections, and the horseshoe theory
Photo credit: https://unsplash.com/s/photos/russia-and-ukrain Introduction As Russia amasses troops within Ukraine's borders - causing...
Election of Left-wing candidates in Latin America and what it means for the region
Photo credit: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/19/under-fire-sham-elections-nicaragua-begins-withdrawal-from-oas Latin America’s...
Why Italy should have a popularly-elected head of state
Italy held an election between 24th and 29th January 2022 in which only elected representatives, and not ordinary citizens, had a say....
Erdoğan’s Last Waltz?
Photo credits: https://unsplash.com/photos/LqxJkdKDlLY The seemingly invincible Recep Tayyip Erdoğan may face a defeat when Turkey goes...
Auf Wiedersehen Angela, Servus Annalena: Exploring the Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) electoral
For months, the lives of citizens all over the world have been marred by uncertainty. As for those in Germany and the European Union,...
The Rise of the Far Right in Portugal and its European implications
For a long time, the Iberian Peninsula has been a bulwark against populism. However, during the last years it seems, that the...
Of ‘Bombs’ and Hybrid Regimes: How the Macedonian Colourful Revolution went full circle
The Swiss-French journalist Jacques Mallet du Pan (1749-1800) wrote in his essay on the French Revolution that, like the ancient Roman...
Elections in Serbia - The Power of One Man Laid Bare
The result of the Serbian Parliamentary elections on Sunday 21st of June this year, can hardly be described as being uncertain. On the...
Under Cover of COVID-19: The Political Gambling in Poland
While the world’s attention is riveted to the pandemic of coronavirus, leaders all over the world consider these hard times as an...
Polish Parliamentary Elections: Slight revisions among massive expectations
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, right, stands beside Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Source: (Radek Pietruszka/EPA-EFE) A lot of fuss about...
