Raoul Wootliff, TOI
He may want the public to focus on Liberman, but the bottom line is that, for the prime minister, calling a new national vote is an admission of failure
Andrew Thompson, WPR
It sounds like the most improbable political script. Everyone is waiting for the candidate, a hardened political veteran backed by an army of loyal supporters, to declare her run for president. Opinion polls already place her ahead in the race. But then, unexpectedly and on an otherwise quiet Saturday morning, she announces it is actually the vice presidency, not the presidency, that she will seek. She announces a hand-picked nominee for president, someone who has been out of the limelight for nearly a decade. Читать дальше...
Matt Gurney, Maclean's
Matt Gurney: Canada should take back its waste. But the angry rhetoric coming from the volatile Duterte is masking a more serious local problem.
Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Policy
The French president has started the political revolution he always wantedand the outcome is dangerously uncertain.
Paul Taylor & Alessandro Marrone, Politico EU
An agenda for a Franco-Italian grand bargain.
Nicholas Farrell, Spectator
Since becoming leader six years ago Matteo Salvini Il Capitano as they call him has transformed the radical-right
Gil Hoffman & Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post
Exactly one month after the 21st Knesset were sworn in, a majority of the Knesset voted late Wednesday to disperse themselves and initiate an unprecedented repeat election on September 17.
Clifford May, Washington Times
Defenders of the nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran predicted that President Trump's sanctions would have little impact unless our European friends joined in. They were dead wrong.
S. Lauer, Worldcrunch
Migration was a hot-button topic in last week's EU elections. But deeper demographic issues are shaping the region's future and economic wellbeing.
Dominique Dillabough-Lefebvre, The Diplomat
The Wa are keen to shed their image as Myanmar's drug lords or China's proxies.
Noah Rothman, Commentary
The populist right fancies itself a collection of fighters, but they're sacrificing conservatism's paradigmatic gains around the superiority of the marketplace.
Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic
Can the next occupant of 10 Downing Street avoid the impasse over Brexit that brought down Theresa May?
Economist
The Russian Orthodox church claims credit for preserving the country's nuclear arsenal. It is extending its reach ever farther
Daniel Hannan, Conservative Home
Here's the Conservative quandary. We can't face the electorate before leaving the EU. But we might not be able to leave the EU without an election.There is no getting around that dilemma. All the potential leadership contenders privately understand it, as do growing numbers of MPs. The question is whether they are brave enough to place such an unpopular truth before party members.
M. McLaughlin, Scotsman
Since leaving city life behind to plant one foot in the countryside, I've found summer is a time to marvel at the idiosyncrasies of rural Scotland and its inexhaustible social calendar. Every other weekend of the season is dominated by festivals, fetes, and Highland Games, staples that draw in the punters and a parade of Mr Whippy vans.
Daniel Bessner, New Republic
Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of the best and the brightest?
