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A Brexit election – but when?

Britain won't be going to the polls next month, but it still looks as if an election can't be long delayed.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Elections, Electoral law, Europe, Party matters, Political issues, Referenda Leave a comment 10 September 201926 January 2022

Italy succeeds where Spain fails

Italy gets a new government (with its old prime minister), as the centre-left links up with the populists, but Spain seems unable to pull off the same deal.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Italy, Party matters, Spain 4 Comments 9 September 201926 January 2022

Brandenburg and Saxony

Elections in two German states this weekend provide another opportunity for pundits to fret about the rise of the far right. So far, however, the centre-right is holding firm.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Electoral law, Europe, Germany, Party matters 3 Comments 30 August 201926 January 2022

Death of a denialist

The paradox of David Koch, who died last week, is that his political activism ended up empowering forces that were deeply hostile to his libertarian convictions.

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Charles Richardson Ideas, Party matters, Personalities, Political issues, United States 3 Comments 26 August 201926 January 2022

Centre-left comes to the party in Italy

Italy looks to be heading towards a coalition of some sort between the populists and the centre-left. Will Silvio Berlusconi join in?

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Italy, Party matters 2 Comments 22 August 201926 January 2022

Brexit revisits the civil war

Like its Italian counterpart, the British parliament faces big decisions about whether to bring down a government and what to put in its place, but it does so under somewhat different constitutional rules.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Constitutional law, Elections, Electoral law, Europe, Party matters, Political issues 4 Comments 15 August 201926 January 2022

Parliament vs executive in Italy

The Italian far right is making its bid for power, and it will take an unlikely degree of unity among its opponents to stop it.

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Charles Richardson Constitutional law, Elections, Europe, Italy, Party matters 7 Comments 12 August 201926 January 2022

Belgium in limbo, again

Two months after its election, Belgium is having great difficulty putting together a government. The problem is that the two halves of the country are moving in different directions.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Party matters 4 Comments 30 July 2019

Brexit options revisited

Boris Johnson has finally got what he wanted, but his options are severely limited. Try your hand on a Brexit flowchart to work out what might happen next.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Elections, Europe, Party matters, Political issues 5 Comments 26 July 201926 January 2022

Remembering George Canning

As Boris Johnson prepares to take office in Britain, thoughts turn to one of his predecessors whose record is under threat.

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Europe, Party matters, Personalities 5 Comments 23 July 201926 January 2022

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