Which countries have a female majority, or a roughly equal level of involvement in the legislative power? Here is a world map compiled by the data of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The question was raised by Doug Merill of afoe when it turned out that New Hampshire in the U.S. has now more female senators than [...]

The American president-elect has two sites: change.gov to help the transition to his administration, and change.org to maintain involvement in his campaign. Foreign nationals, including us, Europeans, can join in and try to influence the new American policies.
The idea that a president-elect is fishing for policy ideas on the internet sounds a bit scary to [...]

Michal Lehuta has a very nice chart of a few selected EU member state’s long-term economic performance. Between 1997-2010 the gap between Central European and Western European GDP’s have diminished significantly. It looks that Slovenia will reach the EU average level at first, Slovakia and Estonia are the biggest relative winners. On the other side, [...]

Having revealed the logo of the Czech presidency, question marks are already looming: on the eve of the the Central European republic’s act as a coordinating leader of the Union, their head-of-state,Mr. Klaus has just started his usual stunt with organizing a Eurosceptic mini-summit during his Irish state visit. Some people would argue that [...]

Central Europe is one of the small parts of the world where Barack Obama and John McCain enjoyed a same level of support by non-voting non-Americans. This is a very striking contrast with Western Europe, which was the most pro-Obama part of the world.
The former East bloc countries have regarded the United States as liberators [...]

Moldova’s President Vladimir Voronin was turned away on Monday from the country’s separatist region on the orders of self-styled president of Transdniestria, Igor Smirnov. Mr. Smirnov’s fiefdom within Moldova’s internationally recognized borders is protected by Russian ‘peacekeepers’.
You can read the story in English in Kyiv Post. I cannot tell if Mr Smirnov was just simply [...]