France France's conservatives make huge gains in local elections France’s centre-right party and its allies are celebrating a resounding victory in the country’s local elections. Some papers are saying its a major 30/03/2015
France Success for Sarkozy as France swings to the right in local elections He is still got some way to go to get back into the Elysee Palace, but Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative UMP party and its allies are celebrating a 29/03/2015
Spain Spain's Popular Party fails first election year test in Andalusia Nursing election hangovers, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and party colleagues have been discussing Sunday’s defeat in Andalusia. The Popular 23/03/2015
Spain Newly reelected head of Spain's Andalusia region also expecting first child For Spanish politician Susana Diaz, 2015 will be remembered for two very important events. The 40-year-old is preparing to give birth to her first 23/03/2015
World France's mid-term elections: left braces for impact It is local election time for France this weekend, round one. The polls come almost two years into the presidency of François Hollande, whose deep 21/03/2014
World Catalan poll blurs regional future The autonomous region of Catalonia in northern Spain is nursing a political hangover in the wake of elections on Sunday. Parties that campaigned 26/11/2012
Unreported Europe Catalonia rises on a wave of independence “I am part of Catalan culture, and it is very important to me.” “We have a very open way of seeing the world. For many years the Catalan culture 16/11/2012
World Spain election results like 'reading two countries' Two regions in Spain have just had elections with results that look simple but are not. In Galicia, the conservative People’s Party (PP) in power in 22/10/2012
World Could Bart's breakthrough lead to Belgium break-up The big local election gains of the Flemish nationalist party on Sunday has once again raised the spectre of a break-up of Belgium. Addressing 15/10/2012