One more day and we will be able to put down these French elections which have “invaded” KeyboardPolitics. Promised! But being located where we are it has been difficult to avoid reporting on then. After all we have been able to have a front seat, so to speak. Read the rest of this entry »

While the French are worried about their presidential elections and how the results will affect their way of life in these times of economic crises, south of their border, in Spain, the precarious economic situation has worsened. With a right wing new government, intent in dismantling many of the social programs that took the country decades to establish after the end of the Franco’s dictatorship, Read the rest of this entry »

Election night on Sunday was full of surprises for the French. The first one, the winning of the socialist François Hollande who came ahead of the center-right incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy was the smallest one as it had more or less been predicted; Read the rest of this entry »

There are now just nine days to the first round of the French presidential elections and things are beginning to “heat”. With their different approaches to campaigning the two main candidates are trying to win the electorate. Read the rest of this entry »

Presidential elections in France are just two weeks from Sunday. When the French thought it was really going to be a contest between the incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy and the socialist François Hollande with Marine Le Pen, the candidate from the far-right set to be in third place, things have become more “interesting”. Read the rest of this entry »

This morning Spaniards woke up to face a general strike over economic reforms. The workers are trying to challenge Spain’s new conservative government and thus venting their frustation at the severe austerity measures many of them perceive as aiming them mostly while the companies that hire them are barely touched. Read the rest of this entry »

It could be their work ethic together with their way of governing in a truly democrat way, and the neutrality and independence from the EU and the euro that has made the Swiss enjoy life in an European country free of many of the problems that citizens from the European Union are going through at this time. Read the rest of this entry »