The left-wing coalition Unidos Podemos (United We Can), is currently polling over 25% and looks set to surpass the vote of the social-democratic Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE)

The “second round” election on June 26 could open the door to the final breakdown of the two-party system and the beginning of a deep-going democratisation

It has taken only nine months for relations between the near-bankrupt Greek state and its creditors — the “Quartet” of the European…

Basque leader Otegi freed as Podemos-PSOE war intensifies

As the wheeling and dealing drags on, it would be good if the Podemos, PSOE and IU-UP voters who want to see a left government were given the chance to demonstrate this sentiment publicly

On January 9, the front-page headline of La Vanguardia, Catalonia’s establishment daily read: “Together For Yes and the CUP exhaust options for…

If Cavaco Silva finally manages to resist all this pressure from his friends and appoint Costa prime minister the incoming government will be a PS administration supported from outside by the Left Bloc, PCP and Greens

On October 27, the ongoing war without guns between the Spanish state and Catalonia entered a critical new phase. On that day…

The Portuguese political crisis—generally under-reported in the mainstream European media—looks set to become the continent’s next major conflict between democracy and austerity

Who won the September 27 elections for the Catalan parliament, called as a substitute for the Scottish-style independence referendum that the People’s…