Cyprus's centre-right president will be hoping that Sunday's election returns a sympathetic legislature for the remainder of his term.
Category: Europe
Dictator over-reach in Belarus
Belarus's president hijacks a commercial jet to arrest a political opponent, outraging European opinion.
May electoral roundup
A regular feature. This month, electoral news from Samoa, Ethiopia, Chad and Bulgaria.
More trouble in the Mediterranean
A new refugee crisis erupts as a move in a diplomatic battle between Spain and Morocco.
Britain debates preferential voting, again
Ten years after rejecting a move to slightly improve its electoral system, Britain is proposing to go backwards.
Scotland: back on the independence track?
Scotland's nationalists have been returned for another term in office, but it's not clear that a renewed push for independence would be a wise move.
Bonaparte, 200 years on
Two hundred years on from the death of Napoleon, his legacy has never ceased to be a live political question in France. Emmanuel Macron is the latest to try to deal with it.
Madrid & Scotland
A snap election yields a big win for Madrid's centre-right government, while Scotland's nationalists are seeking a mandate for another bid for independence.
France’s far right plays to the base
A year out from France's presidential election, Emmanuel Macron's strongest card is once again the disunity of his opponents, and especially the fact that the far right is at the head of the pack.
Incumbents back in Albania
A mostly status-quo election in Albania, and the country's corrupt leader wins re-election, but things could be a lot worse.
The World is Not Enough 