• September 6 2024
  The Big Read

  The German far right and the scars of reunification

  More than three decades after the end of communist rule, the victory of the AfD in a state election in the east underlines a lingering political divide

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• September 3 2024
  News in-depthGerman politics

  The choice facing Germany’s far right: radicalism or power

  Alternative for Germany won its first regional election but still has no viable path to govern

  
• August 14 2024
  Constanze Stelzenmüller

  Extremist surge in eastern Germany threatens a political earthquake

  Government parties and mainstream opposition face a dire set of results in three state elections next month

  
• August 1 2024
  News in-depthItalian politics

  Giorgia Meloni sours on Brussels

  Italian premier abstained to vote for Ursula von der Leyen and said European Commission peddles ‘fake news’

  
• July 24 2024
  Media

  French regulator pulls licence for Vincent Bolloré’s TV channel C8

  Conservative billionaire’s entertainment channel had been fined €7.6mn for breaching broadcasting standards

  
• July 12 2024
  Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch

  Why is the populist right surging across Europe, but not Britain?

  It would be naive to see the UK as immune to this phenomenon; Reform UK is not yet ready

  
• July 11 2024
  Free LunchMartin Sandbu

  Labour’s ‘seatslide’: when a landslide is not a mandate Premium content

  (And a mandate is not a landslide)

  
• July 9 2024
  French parliamentary election 2024

  Recriminations fly in Le Pen’s party over French election result

  Rassemblement National official who helped pick contentious candidates steps down from executive committee

  
• July 8 2024
  European Parliament

  Le Pen teams up with Italian far right in Orbán’s new EU group

  Rassemblement National and League join ‘Patriots for Europe’ to make it third-largest faction in European parliament

  
• July 6 2024
  Le Pen’s party in talks to join Orbán’s group in European parliament

  Rassemblement National will decide whether to link up with Patriots for Europe on Monday

  
• July 2 2024
  Europe Express

  How the EU far right could soon have the power to bring Brussels to a halt Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: Bulgaria tries yet again to form a stable government

  
• July 1 2024
  European Union

  Hungary’s Eurosceptic government takes over bloc presidency

  Viktor Orbán calls for more focus on EU competitiveness in FT opinion piece

  
• July 1 2024
  Gideon Rachman

  Le Pen, Trump and liberal panic

  Liberals are in for a long struggle as nationalist populism surges in the US and Europe

  
• July 1 2024
  Europe Express

  Why the far right’s win plunges France into deep uncertainty Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: the Socialists’ message to Ursula von der Leyen

  
• July 1 2024
  French parliamentary election 2024

  Far right wins first round of France’s snap election

  President Emmanuel Macron’s centrists fall to third place behind leftwing alliance

  
• June 30 2024
  Hungary to join new far-right group in European parliament

  Orbán’s Fidesz teams up with Austrian and Czech MEPs, but needs 4 more countries for Patriots for Europe faction

  
• June 30 2024
  Martin Sandbu

  Europe’s cordon sanitaire against the far right may not work

  Nordic examples show that democracy’s moderating influence can sometimes help

  
• June 25 2024
  European Union

  EU seeks to insulate itself from Orbán’s vetoes

  Hungary’s Eurosceptic premier has blocked an increasing number of Ukraine-related decisions

  
• June 24 2024
  Gideon Rachman

  France could trigger the next euro crisis

  Runaway budget deficits and confrontation with Brussels and Berlin is a formula for trouble

  
• June 24 2024
  French politics

  Business needs to calm down about French election, says Euronext CEO

  Stéphane Boujnah says both far-right and leftwing alliance would struggle to implement their plans in government

  
• June 18 2024
  Giorgia Meloni

  Giorgia Meloni rejects deal on EU top jobs after talks snub

  Italian PM visibly upset after leaders of centrist parties excluded her from initial discussions

  
• June 18 2024
  Media

  Austrian left pledges free newspaper access for young readers

  Social democrats promise to fund media subscriptions for those aged 16-30 in effort to tackle disinformation

  
• June 18 2024
  Janan Ganesh

  Don’t blame neoliberalism for the rise of the hard right

  Populism is often strongest in big-spending social democracies

  
• June 12 2024
  French politics

  Macron appeals for rivals to join his fight against ‘extremist fever’

  French president scolds politicians who seek to form alliances as either end of political spectrum

  
• June 12 2024
  News in-depthFrench politics

  Jordan Bardella: the far-right TikTok king gunning for France’s premiership

  The 28-year-old party leader has outshone his mentor Marine Le Pen on the campaign trail