Category Archives: centre-right
Misdiagnosing threats to democracy in Eastern Europe
I really don’t know why John Feffer’s Huffington Post post Hungary: The Cancer in the Middle of Europe? is being so widely shared and translated. Its starting point that things are going badly wrong in Hungary and that the country … Continue reading
What will Klaus do next?
What will Václav Klaus do next? This has been a pertinent question in Czech politics pretty much any time over the last twenty years and, of course, no more so than now: VK steps down from his second and final … Continue reading
Getting the name right?
What do you do if you’re a fading historic right-wing party in a small northern European country with a strong, broadly social-democratic political culture? For the Scottish Conservatives, whose secular decline despite the electoral bounce- back of 2010 in England … Continue reading
>Chronicle of a (party) death foretold
> I am not always the most astute of pundits, but as the dust settled a year ago even I could see that the Veci veřejné (‘Public Affairs’), the anti-establishment, anti-corruption party that was the surprise package last May’s Czech … Continue reading
>British Tories’ Luxembourg allies slip in unnoticed
> As an occasional follower of developments in the British Tory-led European Reformers (ECR) group in the European Parliament, I was intrested to discover that the latest addition to the ECR fold was Luxembourg’s Alternative Democratic Reform party (ADR) Actually, … Continue reading
