Under Ursula von der Leyen’s second presidency, the European Commission will abandon its previous ‘cordon sanitaire’ policy towards the ‘far right’. Leyen’s new Commission will include...
Germany’s long-swinging SPD-Greens-FDP coalition government (“traffic light”) has collapsed. The collapse seems to have started when the FDP raised the flag to its coalition partners over...
The German Bundestag has passed a resolution against anti-Semitism with votes from the CDU/CSU, SPD, Greens, FDP, and AfD. The declaration, adopted on Thursday, 7 November...
The leaders of two of Germany’s rising political parties, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), faced each other live for the...
Almost a year ago, thousands of people gathered in a rainy Berlin to protest against the German government’s involvement in the war in Ukraine. At the...
With the official start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, not only were all clocks in the US and Europe set on Russia’s military...
Elections in the eastern German states of Saxony and Thuringia have once again confirmed the rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). According to exit polls,...
Last month, German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced that she had decided to ban the nationalist magazine Compact, which she described as ‘the central mouthpiece of...
The first round of the snap National Assembly elections, called by French President Emmanuel Macron following his heavy defeat in the European Parliament elections, took place...
In the aftermath of the European Parliament (EP) elections, analyses of the rising right-wing on the continent play a major role in commentary on the future...
