First Past the Post: August 30

Is it the end of Dutch election poster wars?

South Koreans are running out of patience with the will-he-won’t-he candidacy of Ahn Cheol-soo.

Liberal Democratic leader and U.K. prime minister Nick Clegg hits back at his internal critics.

In Colombia, president Juan Carlos Santos will hold peace talks in Norway in October with armed revolutionary group Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC, or  Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). The Economist‘s take here.

Americas Quarterly reviews the platform of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez.

Global Post looks at Germany and the country’s attitudes on the eurozone in a series of pieces.

Opposition members in Angola are arrested on the eve of elections.

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