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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 […]

A Danish MEP denounced a proposal by an American lawmaker to rename Greenland “Red, White and Blueland” as “absurd” and damaging to diplomatic relations. Earl “Buddy” Carter, a Republican member of Congress loyal to Donald Trump, introduced a bill to allow the U.S. to acquire Greenland, a self-ruling Danish territory and change its name to […]

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. […]

The big fat Greek plot to defraud the EU “Farmers” raked in millions of euros for land they didn’t own or work. By Nektaria Stamouliin Athens Illustration by Justin Metz for POLITICO The scheme to defraud the European Union had all the markings of an inside job. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) is pursuing […]

BERLIN — The EU’s most populous country is heading to the polls on Feb. 23 to elect a new parliament. The vote will almost certainly trigger a change in national leadership, with Friedrich Merz’s conservatives in pole position to lead the next government. The chief significance of the election is that it will determine how […]

MUNICH — French President Emmanuel Macron is convening European leaders for an emergency summit in Paris on Monday, according to Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. “I’m very glad that President Macron has called our leaders to Paris,” Sikorski said, adding that he expects the European leaders to discuss […]

Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally, canceled a planned address at the right-wing Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington after Steve Bannon made what appeared to be a Nazi salute on stage.  Bannon, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former adviser, was quick to respond to Bardella’s cancellation over his gesture, calling him “a […]

BERLIN ― Olaf Scholz and his Social Democratic Party (SPD) are braced for a crushing defeat in Sunday’s German election. The vote looks set to return a center-right chancellor and show record postwar support for the far right. This page will be updated throughout the night as the results come in. We are also following […]