French president François Hollande will have to win the vote of his own party before he can stand for re-election – and even then it will be hard work to make it to the second round.
Category: Europe
Three weeks and counting
With three weeks to go until the "Brexit" referendum, the polls are pointing to a close result.
A nailbiter in Austria
Austria elects a Green president, keeping out the far right by the narrowest of margins.
Scots clip the nationalists’ wings
Scottish voters swing from Labour to Conservative, and also deprive their Nationalist government of a majority.
Trump, and other updates
Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee, after his last major rival conceded in Indiana. That, plus updates from Ireland, Iran and Equatorial Guinea.
Back to the polls in Spain
Spain will hold fresh elections in June, after its political parties failed to reach agreement on forming a new government. It's not at all obvious that this will solve anything.
Austria and Serbia
Compare and contrast: a parliamentary election re-enforces the mainstream in Serbia, and a presidential election swings big to the far right in Austria.
Election preview: Serbia
Serbia's government seeks a fresh mandate tonight and is likely to get it, but it's not clear whether that will do anything to speed up its admission to the European Union.
Justice for genocide
Radovan Karadžić, unsurprisingly, is convicted of war crimes. Why do we bother?
Words that kill: terrorism and “Islamism”
Why "Islamist" is the wrong word to use to describe terrorists, and why some people want us to use it anyway.
The World is Not Enough 