Chris Hanretty

'germany' Category

• Jul

  16

  2007

  Marmor named NDR Intendant

  From Hollywood Reporter:
  Lutz Marmor has been voted the new head of German regional public broadcaster NDR. Marmor will take over from current NDR boss Jobst Plog in January 2008.

  posted in NDR, appointments, germany by Chris

• Mar

  01

  2007

  Twin fallacies of Italian institutional reform

  Recently, the debate about electoral reform in Italy has begun to move quite quickly. A number of parties – including the pivotal UDC – seem to favour the German mixed-member system. Rocco Buttiglione, in yesterday’s Repubblica, claimed that such an electoral system would leave Italy with four parties – radical left, centre-left, centre, and respectable [...]

  posted in electoral reform, germany, italy by Chris