Before a sex tape dashed Benjamin Griveaux’s hopes of becoming the next mayor of Paris, the preferred candidate of French President Emmanuel Macron could be found promoting his answer to the capital city’s increasingly dysfunctional housing market.

While local and European elections cannot necessarily be taken as a good predictor of the subsequent general election, the results of both elections last weekend do provide an interesting insight into how the Irish who decided to vote actually view the world at the moment.

The instinct to call for an extension of Article 50 and to give Brexit negotiations more time would simply extend the paralysis, writes Yanis Varoufakis.

As many as 3.2m people will cast their vote in today’s eighth amendment referendum including 118,000 new voters, underlining the level of public importance being assigned to the historic vote.

If the ‘demagogic’ Andrés Manuel López Obrador is elected president on July 1, he will undo years of democratic reform and of economic openness, says Andrés Martinez.

Fine Gael is preparing to run a four- to six-week referendum campaign targeting undecided voters.

President Barack Obama has said world leaders need to pay attention to people's fears of economic dislocation and inequality in the midst of globalisation.

Voters have approved a new junta-backed constitution in a referendum in Thailand.

The Tánaiste says people who try and prevent politicians from engaging with voters are doing a disservice to democracy.

Local election candidates are setting out their views to voters.