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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.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters Fear and Loathing in the Bundestag
Germany’s far-right AfD party is still learning to govern. But it has already changed how Berlin does business.
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David W Cerny / Reuters The Czech Republic's Fake News Problem
In the country’s parliamentary elections this weekend, anti-establishment parties are getting a major boost from web sites trafficking in sensationalizing stories.
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REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler A New Right-Wing Movement Rises in Austria
By turning the People’s Party into a vocal anti-immigrant force, Sebastian Kurz remade it in his own image.
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REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski Germany's Right-Wing Populists Are Importing U.S.-Style Campaign Tactics
How a prominent GOP-linked political firm engineered the AfD’s strategy
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Cornelius Poppe / NTB Scanpix / Norsk Telegrambyra ... What Right-Wing Populists Look Like in Norway
Can they avoid the nativism of their European peers?
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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters The Merkel Effect
Neither Germany’s refugee crisis nor the rise of populism seem capable of dislodging the chancellor.
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Philippe Wojazer / Reuters What Went Right With the French Campaign Polls?
Previous experience with National Front voters helped pollsters navigate this year’s election.
