Election preview: Costa Rica

A close contest looms in Costa Rica, with both Trumpism and religious fundamentalism in the mix.

Two presidents back, another in doubt

Presidents are re-elected in Czechia and Finland – one narrowly, one very comfortably – while Cyprus's election goes to a second round next Sunday.

Czechia's Trumpist president is running neck-and-neck with his challenger.

Germany heads for another grand coalition. It's not a rerun of the 1930s, regardless of what some commentators think.

Catalonia has returned from the Christmas break to find that its constitutional crisis is no nearer a solution.

Appeasement of China on the travel front opens some interesting questions about what should count as a country.

Czechia, on the front line against Trumpism and Putinism, prepares to pass judgement on its president.

A review of the big elections of the last year and the current state of the "populist" threat.

Another step forward for democracy in West Africa, but it brings reminders of a brutal civil war.

Catalonia remains deadlocked going into regional elections, with no obvious way forward regardless of who wins.