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Sarkozy, Hollande and the foreign policy question
AP Photo/Patrick Kovarik, Pool By Tony Barber in Paris The temperature of France’s presidential election debate shot up on Thursday night when Nicolas Sarkozy snapped at François Hollande that he was...
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It was as if a magician’s wand had waved away the crisis. Shortly after midnight, central Athens erupted in joy. Car horns blared and strangers embraced in the darkness. Over the past 24 months of...
View ArticleMexico’s presidential election – a user’s guide
Mexico’s three month presidential campaign ended officially on Wednesday. The vote is on Sunday, with results expected by midnight, local time. JP Rathbone gives us his insights on the possible...
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Peace at all costs in Kenyan elections
Kenyan police officers outside a polling station in Nairobi (Getty) Foreign election observers have yet to pronounce on the overall credibility of Kenya’s tense elections. But there are already strong...
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Angela Merkel – the Teflon chancellor?
(Getty Images) The mark of a truly skilled politician is to make any possible source of weakness or fallibility look exogenous. Angela Merkel can do it with her eyes closed. Faced with hard questions...
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German election fever: the TV ads are here
(Getty) There is now less than a month to go before Germany’s general election. The summer holidays are mostly over. Children are either back at school, or due to return on Monday, in 12 of Germany’s...
View ArticleGreek myths and reality in Germany’s election
For campaign issues that Germany’s political elite had all but agreed to shy away from, the eurozone debt crisis in general and Greece in particular are proving remarkably capable of generating...
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Colombia’s election – what Santos’ victory means
Such is the power of incumbency, that over the past decade no Latin American president who has run for re-election has lost. Juan Manuel Santos, re-elected Colombia’s president on Sunday, has just...
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