A peak at what's creating buzz in the French media. Green Party leader Eva Joly is under scrutiny, French President Nicolas Sarkozy seems to contradict himself over foreigners' right to vote, and Marks & Spencer reopens its doors in France for the first time in ten years.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was “saddened” by local elections results which showed his centre-right bloc losing ground in many cities, including his hometown of Milan, which his centre-right party has dominated for nearly 20 years.
Squabbles, division and infighting. France's ruling party, the UMP, is showing the strain after its poor performance in the recent local elections. Sarkozy has had to intervene to stop bickering between his ministers and has ordered them to show a united front ahead of his plans for a national debate on secularism and Islam.
Marc Perelman interviews Jean-Marc Gonin, journalist at Le Figaro Magazine, Denis Demonpion journalist at Le Point Magazine, Johan Tollgerdt, a freelance journalist and John G. Keating, chief correspondent at KUNA news agency.
Marc Perelman interviews Jean-Marc Gonin, journalist for Le Figaro Magazine, Denis Demonpion journalist from Le Point Magazine, Johan Tollgerdt, a freelance journalist and John G. Keating, chief correspondent in KUNA news agency.
The first round of the local elections last Sunday in France produced one big winner: the far-right National Front, which garnered 15% of the votes. This is its best performance ever in such elections and a major boost for its new leader, Marine Le Pen, just over one year before the presidential poll.
Greece’s ruling Socialists emerged victorious on Monday in several local elections, including winning the mayoral race in Athens, providing Prime Minister George Papandreou (pictured) with a much-needed boost amid persistent economic woes.
Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party made significant gains over the ruling National Action Party in state elections Sunday, according to exit polls, boosting the main opposition party's bid to regain the presidency in 2012.
Voters in Somaliland, a breakaway territory in northern Somalia, defied warnings from the Islamist Al Shabaab group by casting ballots in a presidential poll they hope will bolster their aspirations for a separate, internationally-recognised state.
