By Gergő Medve-Bálint (Centre for Social Sciences-Hungarian Academy of Sciences) On 8 April, at 7pm sharp, voting at the 2018 Hungarian general elections officially ended. However, it was not until 10:55pm when the first results were announced by the National Election Office. Millions of voters were anxiously and later angrily waiting for the results that [...]

By Sophia Hunger and Theresa E. Gessler (European University Institute) In September 2017, Germans went to the polls - almost half a year later, Angela Merkel was elected as chancellor governing with another round of the previous grand coalition government. In this post, we discuss how this new-old government came about, why coalition formation took [...]