The always readable Timothy Garton Ash has another good column in today’s Guardian discussing how Europe’s inability to speak with one voice on the international stage weakens its impact. As he points out, the sheer number of people waiting to meet with President Bush this week help to show what the problem is:
Who knows what [...]

Europe’s history is littered with questions, some answered, some left unanswered for centuries. For those of you interested in the Schleswig-Holstein question, Randy McDonald has an interesting post on how the remaining Danish and Frisian minority in Schleswig-Holstein could hold the state’s balance of power after Sunday’s elections and how that could affect the politics [...]

We have’t given that much attention to President Bush’s visit to Europe, but the good thing about blogging is that there’s always someone to pick up your slack, so check The Periscope for updates and links to coverage of what’s happening.

Only time for a wuick update, but in case you haven’t been paying attention over the weekend, Spanish voters have voted in favour of the Constitution in a non-binding referendum. This now means that Zapatero will put the Constitution up for a vote in the Cortes - he had said he would only do so [...]

If you’re interested in finding out what British bloggers are talking about then you’ll probably find Tim Worstall’s first BritBlog Roundup rather useful. He’s hoping to make it a weekly event, similar to other blog roundups like the Carnival of the Vanities, and if you want to contribute or be featured then you can find [...]

As many Fistful readers will be aware, it’s widely expected that there’ll be a General Election in the UK this May. Of course, because of the way our system works, no one can say for definite when it will be until the Prime Minister actually goes to the Queen and requests that she dissolve Parliament [...]

Zurab Zhvania, the Prime Minister of Georgia, has been found dead in a flat in Tbilisi apparently from gas poisoning. Initial reports suggest that it’s an accident (carbon monoxide poisoning from dodgy heating equipment would be my guess) rather than assassination, but I’ll update with more information as it becomes available.

If you haven’t yet noticed, voting has now opened for the first AFOE European Weblog Awards, so you can now get voting.
And in other awards news, we’ve been nominated for Best Group Weblog in the 2005 Bloggies, so if you’re not completely tired of voting for stuff then please consider voting for us in that.

It’s in German, but the idea behind this game should be obvious to everyone - it gives you a capital city and you have to ‘throw’ a dart to hit its location on the map. I was closest to the centre of Lisbon (just 18km out, which is effectively a direct hit, given the scale [...]

Via Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber, an interesting article by Matthew Tempest in Spiegel Online (in English) comparing the rather contrasting fortunes of the German and British Green Parties. Both were founded at around the same time (the article does make an error in saying the Ecology Party renamed itself as the Green Party in [...]