Major political events in the US and Europe have preoccupied western media over the past year. Chief among these has been Donald Trump's rise to US president and his continuing efforts to establish a credible domestic and foreign policy agenda.
Before that, the inability of the European Union to agree on a plan to host an influx of refugees gained the media's attention along with the United Kingdom's referendum on Europe. Now a succession of national elections across Europe - in France, Germany and the UK among others - looks set to dominate front page news.
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