Trending
Kurdish PKK disbands and ends insurgency against Turkish state
12 May 2025
Latest
Latest
- Kurdish PKK disbands and ends insurgency against Turkish state
- New Pope, new Chancellor, same old Trump
- Ukraine and its allies push for 30-day ceasefire
- Turkey's accession to the European Union frozen due to lack of progress
- Opinion: Landmine free South Caucasus – the job is far from finished
- Irakli Kobakhidze reappointed Chairman of Georgian Dream
Theme
Domestic Politics
Stories related to the internal politics of states and various domestic issues.
Trending
New Pope, new Chancellor, same old Trump
12 May 2025
The Catholic Church has a new leader. Robert Prevost was not discussed by the media before being announced as the new Pope on Friday. He will follow the Church’s mantra, that has served it well over two thousand years, to be as flexible as necessary and as rigid as possible Europe has fresh energy in the person of the new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz. Despite the wobbly start in the German Parliament, Merz in the four days after his swearing-in met key European leaders, and laid the basis for his Chancellorship. Meanwhile, Donald Trump statements continue to hanker for the past. His call for the re-opening of the prison on Alcatraz is a case in point. Trump marks the end of the “American era”. The US will remain a rich and powerful country, but its global role will be much diminished.
Filter archive
Trending
Socialists win comfortably in Portugal's elections
31 January 2022
Portugal's centre-left Socialists won an outright parliamentary majority in Sunday's snap general election, securing a strong new mandate for Prime Minister Antonio Costa. Speaking after results from exit polls were announced, Costa said the party had won 117 or 118 seats in the 230-seat parliament, up from 108 won in the 2019 election, and his supporters erupted in loud celebrations, singing old revolutionary anthem "Grandola" and waving flags.
Trending
Sergio Mattarella elected president of Italy for second term
30 January 2022
Messages of congratulations are pouring in from all over Europe and beyond to the Palazzo del Qurinale in Rome following the news that Sergio Mattarella has been re-elected as president of Italy for a second term, breaking a political stalemate that threatened to bring the country to a new political crisis.
Trending
International race to recover US F-35C fighter jet that crashed in South China Sea
28 January 2022
Trending
Opinion: Elections in Turkey next year may bring the Erdogan era to an end
24 January 2022
2023 will be a crucial elections year in Turkey, and their is no certainty that president Erdogan and his AK Party can maintain there hold on power, argues Benyamin Poghosyan in this op-ed. The stakes are high and political turmoil will have implications way beyond Turkey itself.
Trending
Armenian president, Armen Sargissian resigns
23 January 2022
In a statement issued to the media on Sunday evening (23 January), Sargissian indicated that he was frustrated at the lack of power of the presidency, which under the current Armenian constitution is largely an honorary position.
In his statement Sargissian said, "the President does not have the necessary tools to influence the radical processes of domestic and foreign policy in these difficult times for the country and the nation."
