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Germany’s Scholz breaks bad on migration

Multiple high-profile acts of violence and the rising popularity of the far right have convinced the German chancellor to deport migrants who commit crimes.

July 4, 2024 4:00 am CET

Nigel Farage battles the hard right’s fatal flaw

Europe’s nationalists have often struggled to field a clean sheet of respectable candidates.

July 2, 2024 4:01 am CET

German far-right leader fined — again — for using Nazi slogan

AfD political provocateur Björn Höcke had already been found guilty of using a banned SA slogan at a campaign event.

July 1, 2024 6:43 pm CET

AfD: Eine Partei will erwachsen werden

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June 27, 2024 5:35 am CET

Germany’s Scholz ‘concerned’ over prospect of far-right win in France

“I hope that parties that are not Le Pen — to put it that way — are successful in the election,” Scholz told public broadcaster ARD.

June 23, 2024 7:40 pm CET

Centrists from US to Germany move right on immigration

As elections loom in the U.S., the U.K. and France, the fraught politics of migration are a key issue animating voters on both sides of the Atlantic.

June 20, 2024 7:04 am CET

Why Europe’s young people are voting far right

Their grandparents ushered in the sexual revolution. Today’s youth want to turn back the clock to 1950.

June 17, 2024 4:00 am CET

AfD will fail in bid to rejoin far-right ID group in EU Parliament, says Maximilian Krah

After his ejection from the Alternative for Germany delegation in the European Parliament, the MEP told POLITICO the party should seek to join another far-right group.

June 11, 2024 10:21 am CET

Far-right Alternative for Germany ejects Maximilian Krah, seeks way back into ID group

Newly elected AfD MEPs voted to exclude from their delegation top candidate Krah, who has been embroiled in multiple scandals.

June 10, 2024 1:23 pm CET

Russia mocks Macron following EU election defeat

“Macron and Scholz are clinging on to power with their last remaining strength,” says head of Russia’s State Duma.

June 10, 2024 12:51 pm CET

Europa rückt nach rechts

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June 10, 2024 6:36 am CET

A triumphant right’s first post-election target: Overturning Green Deal car ban

EPP’s Weber vows to push to scrap combustion engine ban in talks in coming days.

June 10, 2024 3:07 am CET
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German conservatives first, far-right AfD second in EU election

Alternative for Germany beats Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats, who had their worst result in a national election in the party’s history.

June 9, 2024 6:27 pm CET

Revealed: Russia’s best friends in the EU Parliament

We examined 16 European Parliament resolutions critical of Russia — and identified EU lawmakers who have consistently shown their true colors.

June 6, 2024 2:41 pm CET
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How to watch the European election like a pro

4 days. 27 votes. Here’s our ultimate playbook for how to keep tabs on this ballot-box bonanza.

June 6, 2024 4:01 am CET

AfD politician stabbed by man wielding box cutter

Germany has seen a string of violent attacks on politicians, sparking a national debate over the violence.

June 5, 2024 4:34 pm CET

For Jews voting in Europe, there are no good choices

One thing is clear: We fear for the future of Europe and our place in it as a minority, no matter how we vote and no matter who wins.

June 5, 2024 4:00 am CET

Meet the likely next crop of MEPs

Projection time: POLITICO estimates who will be elected to the European Parliament on Sunday.

June 4, 2024 5:01 pm CET

Militant farmers vent fury in Brussels on eve of EU election

But only 1,000 show up to a protest boycotted by mainstream farming organizations.

June 4, 2024 6:00 am CET

Killing of German police officer inflames migration debate ahead of EU election 

Focus on immigration and Islamist extremism could benefit the far right in the final days of the campaign.

June 3, 2024 4:58 pm CET

Europe’s democratic charade

Prepare for postelection negotiations changing the European Parliament just as much as voter choices.

June 3, 2024 4:00 am CET
By the numbers

Orbán leads the way in EU election advertising

Among the biggest spenders is Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party.

June 2, 2024 5:00 pm CET

It’s not just boomers, young people are voting far right too

Ahead of the European election, striking data shows where Gen Z and millennials’ allegiances lie.

May 29, 2024 10:46 am CET

A Meloni-Le Pen super group? Not so fast.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is keeping her options open ahead of EU election.

May 28, 2024 4:00 am CET
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