November 2, 2005

Germany

Angie 2.0 - March 26, 2006?

by Tobias Schwarz

Update (2/11/05, 01:30 CET) - Maybe Angie 2.0 is actually a guy: two East German are now heading Germany’s biggest parties. The SPD crisis management team agreed late Tuesday evening to offer Brandenburg’s state premier Matthias Platzeck (German biography) the party’s chairmanship. Absent any surprises, this nomination will probably be confirmed by the upcoming [...]

July 21, 2005

Governments and parties

Albania again

by Douglas Muir

Former Prime Minister Sali Berisha won a surprise upset victory in the Albanian elections earlier this month.
This is not particularly welcome news for anyone outside of Albania. Berisha, who was Albania’s chief executive from 1990 to 1997, is remembered as a corrupt and erratic authoritarian who ran a government of cronies, best remembered for [...]

June 8, 2005

Economics and demography

When You’re Done You’re Done

by Edward Hugh

You know I’m sure most of you think my constant references to Argentina in the context of Italy’s economic problems is troubling, possibly even irritating. You may well be right. I have to say that I followed Argentina steadily from 1998, waiting to see the inevitable happen. The principal problem was, lets be clear, the [...]

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November 25, 2004

Ukraine

The morning after

by Nick Barlow

Well, it’s been another quiet night in Ukraine, but the demonstrations have continued again today - the live feed shows that Independence Square is full of people again with hundreds of orange flags flying.
There have been a lot of updates on Maidan overnight, mainly of protests and rallies around the world, and still the rumours [...]

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