At one point during their Oval Office meeting, Macron touched Trump's arm and carefully corrected the U.S. president's claim ...
Friedrich Merz, the chancellor-in-waiting, has the in-tray from hell as country tries to cope with increasing economic ...
having covered President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee since 2017 and the rise of the far right under Marine Le Pen. He also writes about power dynamics in the EU. He previously covered macro ...
An independent economic path by the EU requires an autonomous political leadership that dares to see its interests more ...
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Germany’s best defence against the AfD is for mainstream parties to offer hopeThe spectre of the anti-immigration right that is haunting Europe can be banished and parties occupying the centre-ground ...
At face value the overnight results from the German general election look like a political earthquake of epic proportions.
Germans vote in parliamentary elections, deciding who will occupy the 733 seats of the Bundestag and who will be the ...
Across Europe the old order is collapsing while the nationalist right makes sweeping gains. Giorgia Meloni – once branded ...
Before he has formed a coalition, or even been declared chancellor, the winner of Germany’s snap election has quickly assumed an even more critical role – that of Europe’s de facto leader… and, says ...
When Donald Trump won the US election in November, Germany’s government imploded. Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance ...
These parties have reacted with glee to Donald Trump’s election as US president, recognising that they now have an extremely ...
Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...
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