Dick Nichols

Spanish election: will the right triumph?

Spain’s April 28 general election will be β€œexistential” for the Spanish state, according to outgoing Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) foreign minister Josep Borrell β€” the scourge of the Catalan sovereignty movement. It will be a β€œreferendum on the secessionist menace”, according to People’s Party (PP) opposition leader Pablo Casado.

Italian referendum: β€˜No’ movement puts government against wall

Italian Prime MinisterΒ Matteo Renzi looks set to resign after the December 4 referendum on constitutional changes he backed is projected to be defeated. Ahead of the vote, ΒιΆΉΣ³»­ Weekly's Dick Nichols looks at the issues behind the referendum and Yes and No campaigns.

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