Macron booed at Paralympics Games closing ceremony
During the closing ceremony of the Paralympics Games at the Stade de France, the audience heavily booed French President Emmanuel Macron.
Elections
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German Socialists turns up heat on Chancellor Scholz
After the dismal results in the State elections of Saxony and Thuringia, Social Democratic Party (SPD) parliamentarians are starting to question German Chancellor…
AfD Brandenburg support spikes as Greens risk zero-seat election result
Support for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is surging in Brandenburg ahead of the State's parliament elections this month, data gathered…
Auto worker ‘peasants’ may force Volkswagen to stay in Germany, downplay China
Courtier: “Sire, the peasants, they’re revolting!” King Louis XVI: “I know that, they stink on ice.”
In Thuringia two ‘extremist’ parties took half the vote, so where is the centre now?
Every time a populist-Right party is elected, the headlines are predictable.
Arch-Brexiteer Patel dumped in opening vote for new UK Conservative leader
Former UK home secretary Priti Patel's dreams of leading the UK Conservatives are in tatters after she, one of the so-called "arch-Brexiteers", was eliminated in…
German CDU members rally against coalition with hard-left leader Wagenknecht
A group of 40 German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politicians have expressed opposition to co-operating with the hard-left populist party of Sahra Wagenknecht…
German State elections experiment suggests AI has leftist bias
According to an experiment by Swiss data journalists with the newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, artificially intelligent chatbots are pro-veganism, anti-deportations…
Peter Liese MEP: East Germany coalition talks could ‘moderate’ Wagenknecht party
Negotiations to build Right-Left coalition governments in eastern Germany could possibly "moderate" the policies of the populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW),…
Voting populist in Europe? We are all a bit East German now
There were many factors behind the strong election performances of the two populist parties, Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Sahra Wagenknecht Union (BSW),…
Von der Leyen to reward X-bashing Breton with VP promotion, leak claims
Serving alongside him will allegedly be Spain's Teresa Ribera Rodriguez, who will be handed some form of "transition" portfolio, alongside the Netherlands' Wopke…
Albania releases ethnic Greek MEP on probation
“After 16 months of continuous detention, I am now free and proud, but certainly not happy.
Leaked letter reveals infighting at top of Austria’s Social Democratic Party
Less than four weeks before the general election on September 29, Austria’s Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) is in crisis mode.
Who created victorious AfD and BSW? Merkel and her mates, deaf to the people
The German author Jakob Nolte wrote in one of his novels that things that kill you by either “peng peng” or “bla bla.
Alternative for Germany wins big in State elections
German State elections in Saxony and Thuringia saw the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party make big gains while anti-establishment firebrand Sahra Wagenknecht's…
Maduro is ‘de facto’ Venezuelan President despite alleged vote irregularities, says EU
The European Union has declared that the left-wing "strongman" Nicolás Maduro is the "de facto" president of Venezuela - despite concerns surrounding the country's…
On the right side of the cordon sanitaire
The French language is on the decline in Europe, but since the last European elections, one phrase has been on everybody’s lips in Brussels: cordon sanitaire.
Polish opposition set to lose cash after government-controlled body’s ruling
Poland’s National Electoral Commission (PKW), the majority of whose members were appointed by the present government, has decided that the former ruling Conservatives…
East Germany: Ruling parties face cataclysm amid support surge for both hard-left and hard-right
Germany's ruling coalition faces a potential cataclysm in the country's east as populist parties surge ahead of next month's regional elections
German leftist party leader Wagenknecht attacked with paint at campaign rally
The leader of Germany's Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) was attacked with pink paint on Thursday at a campaign rally in the Eastern German state of Thuringia, where…
German bishop instructs Christians not to vote AfD ahead of regional elections
A senior bishop in Germany has again ordered Christians in the country not to vote for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
In France Macron helps fanatics and socialists fight authentic Right
It was a widespread assumption that French president Emmanuel Macron called the unnecessary parliamentary elections in June and July on the assumption that the Rassemblement…
Russia accuses US of plotting ‘Tbilisi maidan’ as Georgia becomes East-West battleground
Moscow has accused Washington of plotting a "Tbilisi maidan" event aimed at an illegal coup of the Georgian Government, the TASS news agency has reported.
Unfashionable truth: Democrats’ ideological dynasty is destroying America
In an American presidential campaign that has so far been marked by the complete absence of one of the candidates, bizarrely resulting in her heading most opinion…
Tens of thousands demonstrate against AfD after stabbings in Solingen
After a deadly knife attack in the German city of Solingen, tens of thousands took to the streets to march against Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) in Saxony and…
German Christian Democrats decry drop in Socialist support ahead of state elections
Senior Christian Democrats in Germany have decried the drop in public support for the country's Socialists ahead of key regional elections in the country's east.
Populist challenge leads stodgy German parties towards political chaos
The smallest party in Germany’s tripartite government, the Free Democrats (FDP), have been angering their coalition allies with a series of recent policy pronouncements.
Austria’s FPÖ vows to curb migration, abolish ‘green taxes’ upon election win
FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl presented the programme at an event in Vienna under the headline: Fortress Austria. Fortress of Freedom.
Coalition talks fail in Belgium as Socialists and Liberals refuse tax compromise
That negotiations could fail over capital gains tax adds to the financial problems left by an outgoing government noted for its lavish spending.
Evangelical Church kicks out local leader over AfD links
An evangelical church in Germany has removed one of its members from all of his leadership roles as a result of his links to the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.