Far-right governments seek to cut billions of euros from research in EuropePoliticsPolicyAnti-immigration parties are pushing policies that are hostile or indifferent towards science.#Anti-immigration parties are pushing policies that are hostile or indifferent towards science.#Credit: Remko de Waal/ANP...
How it started: far right governments as an exception A decade or two ago, far right governments were a rarity in Europe. Of course, there were the Berlusconi governments of the 1990s and early 2000s that included the radical right Lega (then still the Lega Nord) and the post-fascist All...
Romania’s central election authority on Sunday barred far-right pro-Russian candidate Calin Georgescu from running in May’s presidential election re-run. The rejection of his candidacy, which was condemned by far-right party leaders as undemocratic, can be challenged at the constitutional court. ...
Promising to uphold the “firewall” against the far-right AfD, the conservative CDU faces difficult coalition talks after state elections in Saxony and Thuringia, where it will be forced to work with left-wing newcomer BSW to form a majority coalition.
Far-right parties have become leading opposition forces in both Germany and France, and they believe they hold the democratic future of these countries in their hands- either by pressuring governments to implement its policies or by threatening to topple them. ...
Kariv wrote that the invitation constituted a “deviation from the longstanding policy of Israeli governments and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and it directly contradicts the positions and policies of the representative organizations of Jewish communities in those countries and on the international sta...
There's been concern in some European capitals that the trend will be bolstered by President Trump's resounding election win in November and his policies toward European governments during his second term. Mr. Trump's close advisorElon Musk drew scrutinyrecently by telling a large group of far...
The leader of the Social Democrats, a party that led many of Austria's post-World War II governments, positioned himself as the polar opposite of Kickl.Andreas Bablerruled out governing with the far right and has labeled Kickl "a threat to democracy." ...
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Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after exit polls showed his opposition conservatives were on track to win Sunday’s election, in a vote that also saw surging support for thefar-right. Merz, an old-school...