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    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      News in-depthAustria
      Energy crisis and inflation help push Austrians towards far right

      Resurgent Freedom party leads polls as anger among voters grows and key regional election looms

    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
      Janan Ganesh
      Rarity of the German coup plot is a triumph of democracy

      Liberals should notice what doesn’t happen in politics, not just what does

    • Monday, 17 October, 2022
      Sweden
      Swedish parliament backs Ulf Kristersson to be new prime minister

      Far-right Sweden Democrats help put Moderates leader in power and will have big say on immigration and law and order

    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      Timothy Garton Ash
      For a fascist revival look to Moscow, not Rome

      Some Italians take a lenient view of the Mussolini era, but the real fascists are revealing themselves elsewhere

    • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
      FT MagazineSimon Kuper
      Populism isn’t over. It’s getting an upgrade

      Brexit and Trump collided with reality. But rising conservatives like Italy’s Giorgia Meloni are more serious about power

    • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
      Rosa Balfour
      A Meloni-led government need not spell disaster for Italy’s institutions

      Postwar Italian democracy has stood up to successive waves of rightwing populism

    • Monday, 12 September, 2022
      Sweden
      Swedish election result too close to call

      Rightwing bloc takes slender lead as anti-immigration Sweden Democrats become second-largest party

    • Tuesday, 6 September, 2022
      News in-depthItalian election
      Hard-right Giorgia Meloni’s rise from rough streets to cusp of power in Italy

      Politician aims to distance herself from her party’s fascist roots as she vies to replace Mario Draghi as PM

    • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
      Ben Hall
      The new face of Europe’s radical right is on display in Italy

      Giorgia Meloni and her party appear well placed to secure victory in next month’s parliamentary elections

    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
      Janan Ganesh
      Beware the coming wave of competent populists

      Donald Trump and Boris Johnson have more disciplined successors

    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
      Catherine Fieschi
      While politics fragments, Europe is falling into line on trade

      A new consensus on strategic autonomy and state aid is taking shape

    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
      Gideon Rachman
      Johnson, Trump and how to get rid of a strongman leader

      Independent institutions and voters who care about them are vital to the preservation of democracy

    • Saturday, 30 April, 2022
      Europe Express
      One step forwards, two steps back for Europe’s hard right Premium content

      Illiberal populists and nativists suffered some setbacks this week but will be around for years to come

    • Monday, 28 February, 2022
      News in-depthSpanish politics
      Spain’s centre-right weakened by internal feud as it battles Vox threat

      Fight inside PP and hard right’s strong poll showing have potential to reshape political landscape

    • Monday, 31 January, 2022
      Gideon Rachman
      The international cult of Vladimir Putin

      If the Russian leader triumphs in Ukraine, his thuggish style will gain new followers

    • Friday, 28 January, 2022
      Alternative für Deutschland
      Leader of Germany’s AfD quits over party’s drift to radical right

      Jörg Meuthen, seen as a relative moderate, opposed far-right colleagues’ criticism of pandemic measures

    • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
      Janan Ganesh
      The west is a victim of its own long peace

      War veteran Bob Dole was one of the last public figures who felt the costs of political extremism

    • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
      Slawomir Sierakowski
      Poland’s disdain for the rule of law

      Kaczynski’s stand-off with the EU allows him to play the traditional role of defender of an oppressed nation

    • Tuesday, 14 September, 2021
      News in-depthNorway
      Norway vote puts Scandinavia’s social democrats back in driving seat

      Germany is next target for Europe’s centre-left as fragmented politics tests ability to build coalitions

    • Monday, 28 June, 2021
      Gideon Rachman
      Democracy in Europe adjusts to the far right

      Rightwing extremism is a chronic condition, not a mortal threat, for the EU political order

    • Thursday, 10 June, 2021
      Michael Peel
      Renegade soldier is a worrying sign of far-right sympathies in Europe

      Disappearance of Belgian marksman has highlighted risks of extremism within military establishments

    • Friday, 28 May, 2021
      Timothy Garton Ash
      Orban’s visit illustrates UK’s post-Brexit balancing act

      The tension between Britain’s interests and values has become more acute since it left the EU

    • Tuesday, 11 May, 2021
      Catherine Fieschi
      Europe’s phantom political centre risks fuelling populism

      New coalitions and electoral strategies disguise opportunism and an absence of ideological substance

    • Sunday, 9 May, 2021
      Europe
      Madrid success raises hopes of Europe’s struggling centre-right

      Conservative firebrand Díaz Ayuso cut through traditional party lines for resounding win

    • Sunday, 4 April, 2021
      News in-depthItalian politics
      Italy’s Five Star plans break with the past

      Former PM Giuseppe Conte to remould movement whose mission is seen by its supporters as ‘pure protest’

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