Although the official results won’t be in until October 31st the provisional final count gives Sebastian Kurz’s People’s Party (ÖVP) the win in the Austrian election that has been closely watched by the rest of […]
Where is Liberia? Liberia is located on the West African coast and in 1821 was founded and controlled by the United States creating a colony for former African-American slaves. Who were the colonists? After the […]
How did we get here? The last parliamentary election in 2013 resulted in a coalition between the Social Democrats (SPO) and the centre-right People’s Party (OVP). This was nothing new, the so-called ‘Grand Coalition’ have […]
Why does the Catalan region want independence? Catalonia was once independent from Spain. Modern-day Spain was born after The War of Succession in 1715. After a brief respite in 1931 when the Catalan government was […]
‘If Eris, the Greek goddess of strife, symbolises the electoral climate in the UK, US and France these days, Harmonia, her antagonist in Greek mythology, must be watching over Berlin’. Josef Janning for CFR Finally […]
Angola, a former Portuguese colony, is on the west coast of Africa: below the Congo (formerly Belgian) and above Namibia (formerly German). Angola was colonised by the Portuguese in 1575 and was big in the […]
Pictured above: Current President and leader of the MPLA, Jose Eduardo dos Santos (on the left), welcomes his candidate for Angola’s new President: Joao Lourenco (on the right). On Wednesday this week, elections took place […]
‘I have decided that I will send back to Sejm (lower house of parliament), which means I will veto the bill, on the Supreme Court, as well as the one about the National Council of […]
‘I’m not a spokesperson for the L.G.B.T. community. I don’t want to be branded as a gay minister, just as my colleagues don’t want to be primarily defined as being straight. All I want is […]
Last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping was visiting Hong Kong on the 20th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong (a former British colony), to Chinese rule in 1997. It was the first time that the Chinese […]
