Full Coverage: Politics

31.01.2007 Campaigners are to protest outside of the French embassy in London on Friday to urge the government to stop representatives of the Zimbabwean government attending a forthcoming Franco-African summit.
* Zimbabwe organisation faces charges after pro-democracy church service

30.01.2007 On 26 February Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Miller will introduce the second reading of the Public Demonstrations Repeal Bill, an attempt to claw back some of the rights to protest lost after the enactment of the Serious Organised Crime and Policing Act in 2005. She talks to Padraig Reidy.

22.01.2007 Izbori u Srbiji protekli su u skladu s međunarodnim standardima, saopštila je Međunarodna izborna posmatračka misija (IEOM). Izbori su građanima Srbije pružili istinsku mogućnost da biraju iz čitavog spektra političkih platformi i sprovedeni su u skladu sa zahtevima OEBS-a i standardima Saveta Evrope koji se odnose na demokratske izbore. Ipak, ostaju pojedine odredbe izbornog zakonodavstva koje je potrebno razmotriti, navodi se u saopštenju.

13.01.2007 from Climate Change Blog:
'I am very disappointed in Tony Blair's recent statement that we should all carry on with our air travel because science will find an answer to the problem. The hard reality is that some degree of personal sacrifice is going to be required'.

11.01.2007 from Stoat blog:
'Tony Blair's leadership stuff [on climate change] seems to have gone out of the window. Politicians are not going to do anything that risks frightening the voters (even to solve problems with "disastrous" and "irreversible" consequences), and in middle england the idea of losing their cheap flights to their second homes overseas is frightening.'