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Jordan Bardella's Far Right Throne Crumbles
Jordan Bardella, France's far-right leader, faces losing his presidential bid after antisemitic messages resurface.
Vanity Fair · 2m
South Africa: Chris Hani's Killer Could Become Polish MP
Janusz Waluś, who killed South African leader Chris Hani in 1993, may run for Poland's parliament in 2027 after being deported from South Africa.
Allafrica · 2m
French centre left picks Glucksmann to fight Le Pen
Socialist party backs MEP as presidential candidate to challenge far right in 2027 election.
the Guardian · 1m
Italy's Far Right Blueprint
How Italy's political experiments birthed the modern far right across Europe.
Foreign Policy · 2m
France's Catholic Revival Powers Far Right
Pope Leo XIV's Paris visit sparks French Catholic surge toward Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally.
Foreign Policy · 2m
French Scholar Calls Le Pen and Mélenchon Economically Illiterate
French political scientist Jacques Rupnik claims Le Pen and Mélenchon are economically illiterate and weaponizing migration ahead of 2027 French presidential race.
EUobserver · 1m
France in Flames
Student riots in Paris ignite far right's political rise.
Nationalpost · 1m
German election humiliation puts Merz on borrowed time
Chancellor Friedrich Merz faces CDU collapse after disastrous state election results.
the Guardian · 1m
Merz vows to stay as German CDU reels from far-right losses
Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he will keep his coalition together after his conservative party suffered defeats in two state elections to the far-right AfD.
the Guardian · 2m
Merz vows to fight on after CDU collapse in German elections
Germany's chancellor Friedrich Merz refuses to resign despite his party's worst-ever state result and surging far-right gains.
the Guardian · 2m
Merz's grip on power weakens as far right surges
German chancellor Friedrich Merz faces his political future on Sunday as voters in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania deliver a verdict on his troubled first 16 months.
the Guardian · 2m
France arrests far-right cop for terror plot and 3D-printed weapons
France arrests far-right cop suspected of plotting terror attack and making 3D-printed weapons
Malay Mail · 1m
Michelle Bolsonaro remakes Brazil's far right
The former first lady is building a political machine among conservative women that could reshape the Bolsonaro movement and Brazilian politics.
Foreign Policy · 3m
Sweden's PM resigns after centre-left wins election
Ulf Kristersson steps down as prime minister, clearing the way for Social Democrats leader Magdalena Andersson to form a new government after a narrow victory.
the Guardian · 1m
Sweden rejected the far right. Will Europe listen?
Sweden's voters punished the far-right Sweden Democrats, but mainstream parties have already adopted their hardline policies on immigration and crime.
the Guardian · 2m
Why East Germany is voting far right
A historian explains the AfD's surge in former East Germany and what mainstream parties got wrong.
The New Yorker · 4m
Sweden's far right stalls, but not its ideas
The Sweden Democrats lost their path into government, yet the politics they built is now everyone's politics.
the Guardian · 1m
Six men wanted over Portsmouth anti-migrant disorder
Hampshire police sifted hundreds of hours of CCTV after a night at Eastney Marina left seven officers hurt.
the Guardian · 1m
Sweden's election ends in a near dead heat
Two blocs split by 20,000 votes, with the hard right's first slip since 2010 in the balance.
BBC News · 1m
Sweden's election ends in a near tie
Exit polls promised a left-leaning government, then the count narrowed it to one seat and weeks of coalition talks.
the Guardian · 2m
Sweden's election is a coin flip
A 0.3-point gap decides whether the Sweden Democrats get ministers for the first time.
the Guardian · 2m
An unsettling week with the Patriot Platform
Masked men in balaclavas blockaded Dover, then their leader raised £62,000 to move his mum. Inside Britain's newest anti-migrant movement.
the Guardian · 3m
The AfD's dark agenda for Germany
A far-right party just took 43.8% in an eastern German state, and its 258-page manifesto spells out exactly what comes next.
TIME · 3m
Germany's firewall against the far right just cracked
The AfD took 44% in Saxony-Anhalt, and the chancellor who promised to stop them is the one on the ropes.
the Guardian · 2m
The far right's oldest trick: reject the label
After the AfD's win in Saxony-Anhalt, the fight moved from policy to a single phrase people would rather not wear.
Mother Jones · 2m
Bin Laden Won the War on Terror
The argument that 9/11 did not open a new era but closed the Cold War, and that our politics are living in the rubble.
TIME · 3m