The electoral defeat of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is far more than an upset in Hungary. It is a body blow to the hard right, to Donald Trump’s MAGA, and to the idea that populist strongmen are electorally untouchable....
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Analyzing victory of Peter Magyar and Tisza Party in Hungary’s elections, ending the 16-year rule of pro-Kremlin Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Hungary’s Fidesz Party have launch a Fight Club digital media campaign — and they are getting beaten at it.
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Zohran Mamdani’s lesson: “If progressive politics can get its act together, then assumptions of Trumpist and divided America can be upended”
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Ukrainian forces again strike Kerch Bridge, Vladimir Putin’s flagship symbol of his quest to conquer Ukraine, in large explosion on Tuesday.
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Countering politicians, mainly from hard right populist movements, who “flood the zone” to dominate news cycle & divert attention from issues.
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“Fear is easier to sell than hope when institutions seem to be failing. To reclaim hope, politicians must dare to dream, disrupt, & inspire.”
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Analyzing first-round outcome of France’s elections for the National Assembly, and whether far-right Rassemblement National can be contained in the second.
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After 20 years of governance from “traditional” parties to Macron, is it still possible in France to stem a dynamic in which far right is the “new normal”?
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Elections in UK and France: Governments in trouble, but big differences in challengers – far right in France, center in UK – and in Britain’s Brexit burden.
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Knocking back headlines of “far right surge” to explain “patchwork” outcome in elections, varying from country to country across Europe’s 27-nation bloc.
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“If Mi Hazánk is successful in this week’s elections, its conclusion for Hungary: the far-right has never been more wrong in thinking that they are right.”
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Germans rally v. threat of far right AfD: “Healthy society does not need politicians singling out and threatening ‘others’. The call should be for humanity”
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Giorgia Meloni’s populist radical-right party is in power in Italy — but she finds it is subject to same external constraints as any other administration.
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Why is the emblematic supporter of France’s left-wing organizations travelling towards the far right party of Marine Le Pen, especially in the northeast?
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Will the liberal confines and “stability” of The Netherlands be broken in November’s elections? A look at the issues and parties — including the far right
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“4 years ago, Austria’s far-right Freedom Party appeared to consign itself to scandalous past. But now, there is a belief that tomorrow belongs to them.”
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“No longer are Irish Republicans just positioned v. Northern Ireland’s union with Britain. They also want to be frontline opponents of far right in Ireland.”
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“For now the far right’s message is failing to resonate in an Ireland which can legitimately claim to be a country standing against political extremism.”
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I answered the questions of Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Isabell Hoffmann about Sunday’s...
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Rula Jebreal on Italy’s slide into autocracy & wider context of far right — politics, disinformation, and threats — from Europe to the Middle East to US
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Beyond the success of ruling center-left Socialist Party is a question for Portugal’s politics: how do you deal with the rise of radical right-wing populism?
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“Ukraine Invasion shows adaptability and flexibility are strengths for populist parties on European radical right. Opponents should not underestimate that.”
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Is radical right-wing populism on the rise across Europe? How should we begin to assess parties through organization, tactics, and popularity with voters?
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Why Europe’s right-wing populists prefer to focus on more tangible issues like immigration rather taking risk of calling for departure from European Union.
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A discussion of radical-right populism in Italy and Switzerland, Silvio Berlusconi, effect of Coronavirus on populist politics, & meaning of “illiberalism”
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“I am not saying that right-wing populists are new normal everywhere. But this is the direction of travel, and it is important to analyse what is happening.”
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Caught between Government measures and anti-vaccination movement, the Finns Party’s wait-and-see approach risks controversy of becoming “a corona party”.
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Belgium’s populists Vlaams Belang “bucks Coronavirus expectations by neither amplifying the sense of alarm or encouraging scepticism about experts”.
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In the Coronavirus pandemic, the Swiss People’s Party is still walking a very fine line between being in government and performing the role of an opposition.
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