September 11, 2024

A weekly review of news and analysis of elections in Europe, usually posted on Wednesdays and occasionally updated throughout the week.

The old Roman wall in Grenoble, France. Photo credit: Wikimedia/Milky (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Upcoming Europe Elections

Czech Republic Senate and Regional Elections: September 20-21 and 27-28, 2024

Radio Prague International (September 10, 2024): Czech political scene increasingly polarized ahead of regional and Senate elections

Germany, State Elections in Brandenburg: September 27, 2025 (next federal elections set for September 28, 2025 – state elections in Saxony and Thuringia were September 1, 2024)

DPA (September 11, 2024): Germany’s chancellor, opposition clash in parliament over migration

James Angelos, Politico (September 11, 2024): Germany’s Scholz gets tough on border in bid to save political future

Jessica Parker, BBC (September 7, 2024): Rise of far right in Germany’s east isn’t over yet

Jon Shelton, DW (September 6, 2024): Germany: Opposition leader Merz rules out AfD cooperation

Nette Nöstlinger and Svetlana Shkolnikova, Politico (September 6, 2024): Putin ‘wins’ in eastern Germany

Austria Parliamentary Elections: September 29, 2024

Marc Martorell Junyent, Inkstick (September 9, 2024): The Post-Nazi FPÖ Is On Course to Win the Elections in Austria

Bosnia and Herzegovina Local Elections: October 6, 2024

Azem Kurtic, Balkan Insight (September 6, 2024): Bosnia Local Election Campaign Starts Under New, Stricter Rules

Bulgaria Snap Elections: October 27, 2024

Tom Junes, Balkan Insight (September 9, 2024): Bulgaria’s Protracted Political Crisis: Between Electoral Roulette and Voter Fatigue

Romania Presidential Election: November 24, 2024 and Legislative Elections: December 1, 2024

Andra Timu and Irina Vilcu, Bloomberg (September 11, 2024): Easing Inflation Puts Rate Cuts in Play Before Romania Votes

Past Europe Elections

France Snap Legislative Elections: June 30 and July 7, 2024

Freddie Clayton, NBC News (September 7, 2024): France’s left rages at Emmanuel Macron for shutting it out of power despite election victory

Ania Nussbaum and Samy Adghirni, Bloomberg (September 6, 2024): Le Pen Is France’s New Powerbroker After Macron’s Premier Pick

Andrew Harding, BBC (September 6, 2024): Has Macron fixed France’s political mess?

Ellen Francis and Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post (September 5, 2024): France’s Macron picks Michel Barnier as prime minister to end deadlock: The French president named Michel Barnier, the European Union’s former Brexit negotiator, nearly two months after elections that kept the far right from power but resulted in political deadlock

Belgium Parliamentary and Regional Elections: June 9, 2024

Fitch Solutions (September 6, 2024): Centre-Right Government Remains Most Likely Outcome In Belgium

Greece Parliamentary Elections: June 25, 2023

AP (September 8, 2024): Greek opposition leader Kasselakis ousted by his Syriza party

Regional Analysis

David Wallace-Wells, New York Times (September 11, 2024): Is Europe Turning Its Back on the Left?

Theodoros Benakis, European Interest (September 10, 2024): The upcoming general elections in Europe that matter

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