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Her conservative video campaign is a lame appeal to the populist right.
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Europe’s disunited hard right
By rejecting the AfD and embracing Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, Marine Le Pen has performed a political masterstroke.
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An ICC warrant for Netanyahu will divide Europe
A call for the Israeli leader’s arrest – just as Ireland, Norway and Spain move to recognise a Palestinian state…
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Geert Wilders is coming for the EU
The hard-right politician has at last formed a government after six months of negotiation.
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The EU’s fear-based foreign policy
Europe’s policymaking risks paralysis in a world that is fast changing around us.
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Spain’s toxic politics
The country’s poisonous relationship between law and politics is a headache for the EU.
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George Robertson: Why Russia fears the European Union
The former Nato secretary general on his conversations with Vladimir Putin.
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Germany’s delusional China strategy
Berlin can’t shield German companies from the reality of geopolitics.
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Mario Draghi’s search for the European soul
Why the former Italian prime minister’s case for the return of the state misunderstands Europe.
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Ukraine is Europe’s problem now
Germany expects a long war of attrition in Ukraine. That is a war Putin is likely to win.
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David Lammy’s foreign policy for a diminished Britain
The shadow foreign secretary recognises that the world has changed fundamentally since Labour last won power.
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Europe’s hard right is deeply divided. Does it matter?
Giorgia Meloni and company are set on changing the EU, but they’re not a united front.
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Unlocking the potential of a national asset, St Pancras International
As the number of train passengers grows, we must ensure the London transport hub is up to the challenge.
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The West is revealing its hand to Putin
Emmanuel Macron’s threats to send ground troops to Ukraine only exposes Europe’s deepening divisions over the war.
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The key to net zero? UK-EU cooperation
With finances tight and growth sluggish, closer alignment would bring mutual benefit.
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Europe’s consensus on climate is crumbling
With farmers in revolt and the far right surging, is Ursula von der Leyen about to wreck her own green…
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Austerity is coming for Europe
Heed Germany's lesson: when austerity bites, investment is the first thing to go.
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The EU is lurching to the right – that’s bad news for the green transition
Populist and nationalist parties are sweeping elections on the continent, threatening measures in the Green Deal.
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Brexit is not as secure as it appears
Voters have concluded that leaving the EU was a mistake because all the government can offer is damage limitation.
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How to stop the far right in Europe
The rise of anti-migrant populism is a metric for the EU’s policy failures. Address these, and it can be reversed.
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