PARIS, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- A razor-thin victory by Martine Aubry for the leadership of the French Socialist Party has set the stage for more factionalism on the Left, analysts say.
PARIS, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- French Socialist Segolene Royal has re-emerged as a star of her party after losing last year's presidential election to Nicolas Sarkozy.
BELGRADE, Serbia, May 20 (UPI) -- The leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia says his group is torn over which of two political parties it should partner to form a coalition government.
PARIS, March 16 (UPI) -- French President Nicholas Sarkozy sustained a political setback Sunday when his party lost another round of municipal elections.
MADRID, March 13 (UPI) -- The head of Spain's opposition Popular Party, Mariano Rajoy, says he will seek re-election to the conservative party's leadership.
MADRID, March 9 (UPI) -- The conservative Popular Party conceded defeat Sunday in Spain's general elections, but the Socialist Party failed to win an absolute parliamentary majority.
MADRID, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Spain has decided to dissolve its Parliament and called for elections in March, opening a potentially close race between the ruling party and opposition.
ZAGREB, Croatia, April 30 (UPI) -- Reformed communist leader Ivica Racan, who helped improve independent Croatia's ties with Washington and the European Union, has died in Zagreb. He was 63.
TIRANA, Albania, April 10 (UPI) -- An Albanian opposition lawmaker and journalist said an explosion damaged his car in Tirana but nobody was injured, media reported Tuesday.
CARACAS, Venezuela, March 19 (UPI) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Monday warned his political allies to either join his new socialist political party or leave the government. The outspoken leftist Chavez touted his United Socialist Party as the umbrella group for his new leadership.
BELGRADE, Serbia, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The Serbian Socialist Party in Belgrade elected a new leader to replace former President Slobodan Milosevic, who died in jail in March after 16 years in power.
BRUSSELS, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- The European Union's group of socialist parties has expelled Slovakia's ruling socialists for forging a coalition with an extreme rightist party.
PARIS, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Opposition politician Segolene Royal declared her candidacy in the French presidential race on the Socialist Party ticket.
PARIS, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin announced Thursday he was withdrawing as an opposition Socialist presidential candidate for next year's election.
STRASBOURG, France, July 5 (UPI) -- Europe's socialists have condemned Slovakia's new coalition government made up of leftist and far-right nationalist parties.
