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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters Austria’s Election Shows That the Far Right’s Floor Is Rising
The Freedom Party was caught up in not one but two major preelection scandals, and suffered at the polls. But its core supporters stuck with it.
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Michele Tantussi / Reuters The Small-Town Disputes That Fuel Germany’s Far Right
A municipal disagreement illustrates Germany’s polarized debate about open societies, tolerance, and integration.
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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?
