President of the Socialist International, George Papandreou Jnr, into the office of Prime Minister on his third attempt. Vouli ton Ellinon, Athens Whilst most of Europe’s attention was focused o… more →
Confessions of a Political AnimalPolitical Animal wrote 2 months ago: President of the Socialist International, George Papandreou Jnr, into the office of Prime Minister o … more →
Political Animal wrote 2 months ago: One weekend, two elections. And two rather differing stories for the European centre left. Germany: … more →
Political Animal wrote 4 months ago: Bulgarian Parliament, Sofia What Harold Macmillan would describe as ‘events, dear boy, events … more →
Political Animal wrote 7 months ago: Althing, Reykjavik April 27th 2009 represents a bright new dawn for the European Parliamentary left. … more →
Political Animal wrote 8 months ago: Outgoing Macedonian President Crvenkovski The first European national elections of 2009 took place o … more →
Political Animal wrote 9 months ago: Spain held regional elections at the weekend, which turned out to be something of a mixed bag for th … more →
Political Animal wrote 11 months ago: Since the Animal started tracking the fortunes of Labour’s sister parties in August, there hav … more →
Political Animal wrote 1 year ago: The Romanian Parliament: the world's largest administrative building What will almost certainly … more →
Political Animal wrote 1 year ago: Walter Faymann: set to be Austria's Social Democrat Chancellor It has taken the best part of two … more →
Political Animal wrote 1 year ago: Borut Pahor, Slovenia's new Social Democrat Prime Minister Just briefly posting to note the conc … more →
Political Animal wrote 1 year ago: Seimas (Parliament) Building, Vilnius We reported two weeks ago on the first round of Lithuania … more →
Political Animal wrote 1 year ago: Outgoing (almost certainly) PM Gediminas Kirkilas The results of the first round of Lithuania’ … more →
Political Animal wrote 1 year ago: It’s Monday, so it must be the day after a European legislative election. Austria went to the … more →
Political Animal wrote 1 year ago: Austria goes to the polls on Sunday to elect a new Nationalrat (National Council), almost two years … more →
Political Animal wrote 1 year ago: Slovenian Parliament, Ljubljana In the early life of this blog, I promised to keep a watch on the el … more →
Political Animal wrote 1 year ago: View Larger Map I have a great interest in European politics. That’s not the same thing as hav … more →