MILAN| By Fabrizio Goria via Presseurop | Although German Chancellor Angela Merkel seems assured of victory, the German elections will be revelatory. The results should bring answers to a number of open questions concerning the future of the economy and of European institutions.
STRASBOURG | By EP Press Department | The European Parliament currently boasts 754 MEPs but this will be increased to 766 once Croatia joins in July. After next year’s elections, this number will have be reduced to 751.
BANGALORE | By Srikanth Vasuraj | 2014 is when over a billion people in the world’s largest democracy will vote to elect their next government. Who is it going to be this time? What surprises will the voters throw up?
MADRID | Ignoring that Italians have given support to political programmes contrary to current austerity policies would be a temerity.
MADRID | In Italy, as in other southern eurozone countries, citizens cannot believe there will be light at the end of the austerity tunnel.
Presseurop.eu | By Marc Semo | As the most populated and wealthy region in the country, Lombardy will play a key role in the outcome of the Italian legislative elections scheduled for February 24 and 25. However, troubled by the lack of ethics among politicians, the region’s all-important Catholic vote is more undecided than ever.
New York correspondent Ana Fuentes explains just-reelected President Barack Obama his duties, at home and abroad. The (T) party is finished, it’s time to work.
Enric Fernández, in Barcelona | In spite of their differences, both candidates are aware that the country needs a credible adjustment plan. And, in fact, neither the United States nor the world economy can allow themselves to prolong, for too long, the uncertainty regarding the sustainability of the public finances of the world’s leading economy.
The US elections are surrounded by more uncertainty that ever before, and most of it comes from the Republican candidate. Mr Romney’s economic policies are an unknown-unknown.
Two months before the US general elections, the Federal Reserve activates a package of expansionary monetary policy that will artificially inject life into the US economy. Carlos Díaz sees this is a vote for Obama.