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Matthias Rietschel / Reuters The Far Right Wants to Gut the EU, Not Kill It
Rather than opting to leave the EU like the U.K., Europe’s far-right parties have instead advocated for change “from within.”
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Markus Schreiber / AP Teaching the Holocaust in Germany as a Resurgent Far Right Questions It
As those who lived through it are dying off, and some people claim it never happened, what will happen to sites of remembrance?
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Alex Halada / AFP / Getty How the Far Right Weaponized Europe’s Interior Ministries to Block Refugees
Even when populist parties aren’t in the majority, they’ve found a way to make fast progress on their defining issue.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters Germany Is Testing the Limits of Democracy
German institutions have committed to fight extremists since World War II. The far-right AfD might be their toughest challenge yet.
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Reuters Germany Preps a Plan B for Trump’s Foreign-Policy ‘Zigzag’
One of Washington’s closest allies in a fractured Europe struggles to adapt to the Trump administration’s unpredictable policy moves.
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Morris MacMatzen / Getty Der Spiegel Made Up Stories. How Can It Regain Readers’ Trust?
Germany’s top news magazine reckons with a star reporter’s brazen lies in the age of fake news.
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Abderrahmane Mokhtari / Reuters A Nonbinding Migration Pact Is Roiling Politics in Europe
Why is a relatively straightforward multilateral agreement that has no legal standing causing such controversy?
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Thilo Schmuelgen / Reuters Is It Time to Bury Merkel's Legacy?
When Christian Democrats choose a new party chair on Friday, they have to decide whether the CDU needs change after Merkel’s 18 years of leadership.
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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters Europeans Are Obsessed With the U.S. Midterms
“Right now we have almost-daily U.S. coverage on Trump and everything that’s connected to him.”
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Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters A Slow, Somber End to the Merkel Era
At a press conference following her party’s disappointing showing in state elections in Bavaria and Hesse, Merkel announced what Germans long expected—that her centrist reign will come to an end.
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Kacper Pempel / Reuters An Election in Poland’s Capital Could Shape the Future of Populism
“Warsaw is a kind of laboratory in which PiS tries to replicate its success.”
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters How One 'Political Wunderkind' Is Outmaneuvering the Far Right
The 32-year-old Austrian chancellor’s strategy is inspiring conservative parties in Europe.
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Axel Schmidt / Reuters Germany’s Summer of Identity Crisis
The country’s spy chief lost his job after undermining the government’s view of the anti-immigrant protests in Chemnitz—only to be promoted to a higher position.
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TT News Agency / Jonas Ekstromer / Reuters The Left Stumbles in Sweden, Social Democracy's Heartland
The Social Democrats staved off the worst in Sunday’s elections. But with their base cracking and right-wing populism on the rise, an ominous future lies ahead.
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Sputnik Photo Agency / Reuters Putin’s Weekend of Trolling
It’s always awkward when he meets with Angela Merkel.
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Axiel Schmidt / Reuters How to Discuss the Far Right Without Empowering It
A lesson from Germany
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Pring Samrang / Reuters Cambodia Eviscerates Its Free Press—And the Whole Region Suffers
With authoritarianism on the rise, does an independent media have a future?
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Emmanuel Foudrot / Reuters Macron's Upstarts Have Become the Establishment
How does a Jupiterian president keep his grassroots movement alive?
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Marko Djurica / Reuters Can Hungary Defeat a Budding Strongman?
The opposition parties seeking to oust Viktor Orbán could have a chance in Sunday’s election—if they could just get along.
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Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters How Italy's Five-Star Movement Is Winning the Youth Vote
They can’t find jobs, and the centrist parties have failed them, opening space for the populists.
