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Talks to form a government that would put the far right in power in Austria are struggling, Austrian media reported Tuesday, though the parties involved say negotiations have not collapsed. The far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), which won the most votes in a September election in Austria, has been in talks with the right-wing Austrian People’s […]

PARIS  — The biggest day of François Bayrou’s decades-long political career has arrived. His government’s fate is in the hands of the members of the French parliament, as they vote Wednesday on the first of several no-confidence motions expected to be put forward against the centrist prime minister. It’s only two months since they brought down […]

Donald Trump is gearing up to be the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl on Sunday in New Orleans, saying on social media that “IT WILL BE A GREAT GAME.” Trump, in a Friday morning post on his Truth Social, said he is eager to see the stars on both teams when the […]

Hamas freed three Israeli hostages on Saturday morning in a televised event in central Gaza in the latest exchange under the cease-fire agreement in the region. The Palestinian militant group freed Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy, who were captured in the Oct. 7. 2023, attack on Israel. The three men appeared on […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is making a diplomatic push to win over Donald Trump’s White House ahead of any negotiations with Russia, using Ukraine’s mineral wealth as leverage. “The coming weeks could be very busy in diplomacy,” said Zelenskyy in a post on Telegram late Saturday, adding that he valued “cooperation with President Trump.” The […]

A federal judge on Saturday issued a sweeping block on most Trump administration officials — including Elon Musk and his allies — from accessing sensitive Treasury records for at least a week while legal proceedings play out in New York. Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer issued the middle-of-the-night order after an emergency request by 19 Democratic […]

MADRID — Europe’s far-right leaders huddled in Madrid on Saturday as a show of force following Donald Trump’s reelection. Boasting about a new era of conservative governments in Europe under the motto “Make Europe Great Again,” the Patriots for Europe party, the third-largest EU political family, held its first rally since its inception after last […]

Le destin de la mission historique de l’Europe en matière de climat et celui de son cordon sanitaire contre l’extrême droite sont désormais liés. Les tentatives de l’Europe pour relancer son industrie en déclin ont donné naissance à un attelage hétéroclite mais résolu d’intérêts économiques, de leaders politiques centristes et de responsables d’extrême droite, qui […]

Wolfgang Ischinger is a former German ambassador to the U.S. and the U.K. He is president of the Munich Security Conference Foundation, and chaired the Munich Security Conference from 2008 to 2022. He teaches at the Hertie School Berlin and the University of Tübingen. A sigh of relief was heard in Davos recently, when U.S. […]