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Yara Nardi / Reuters Italy’s Populists Lost Power—And Now the Press
Much of the Italian press gushed over the far-right leader Matteo Salvini as he rose. Now that he is in opposition, it feels free to be more critical.
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Pool / Reuters Europe Marvels as Britain Convulses Over Brexit
Onlookers in Paris, Rome, Berlin, and elsewhere across Europe have been stupefied by the internecine battles in London.
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Gianni Cipriano The New Populist Playbook
Matteo Salvini is not merely a Donald Trump facsimile—the Italian politician has been testing whether Facebook likes translate into votes, and is remaking his country along the way.
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Tristan Reynaud / SIPA / AP The Joys of a Quiet Paris
The French capital empties out in August, but still has energy—just a different sort.
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Yara Nardi / Reuters Italy’s Transition From One Weak Government to Another
The pact between the populist Five Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party, engineered to keep Matteo Salvini from power, may have its days numbered.
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Remo Casilli / Reuters Italy’s Leaders Are Divided on Policy, United in Fear of One Man
The far-right politician Matteo Salvini has triggered a government crisis, forcing parties that despise one another to contemplate alliances, if only to block his rise.
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Pool / Reuters Emmanuel Macron Expounds as the World Burns
The French president has an answer for every problem, but is anyone listening?
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Remo Casilli / Reuters Salvini Puts Italy on a Collision Course With Europe
Matteo Salvini, Italy’s interior minister and the country’s most powerful politician, has called for early elections, but will have to deflect a poor economy and allegations of links to Moscow.
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Guglielmo Mangiapane / Reuters Teflon Salvini: Italy’s Untouchable Politician
The Italian interior minister has been linked to Russian money. It’s just the latest crisis he’s brushing off.
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Yannis Behrakis / Reuters Greece Is Over Its Crisis, but Europe Isn’t
In Greece, a cycle is ending, and the country is returning to political normality. But across Europe, the legacy of its crisis is still a factor.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Italian Donald Trump Visits Washington
Matteo Salvini’s trip helps secure his power in Italy and contribute to his image as a strong, responsible statesman.
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Francois Mori / AP Nothing Prepares You for Visiting Omaha Beach
The grief at the Normandy American Cemetery feels world-historical.
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Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters A Journalist Was Killed in an EU Country. Why Has No One Been Caught?
A new report says the rule of law in Malta is “seriously undermined by the extreme weakness of its system of checks and balances.”
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Max Rossi / Reuters Macron and Salvini: Two Leaders, Two Competing Visions for Europe
The French and Italian politicians see different futures for the continent. Both face tests in this week’s European Parliament elections.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters How I. M. Pei Shaped a Change-Resistant Paris
Parisians hated Pei’s pyramid when it first opened. It is now as synonymous with the Louvre as the Mona Lisa.
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Thomas Samson / AFP / Getty A Motto for a World-Weary Paris
The Notre-Dame fire brought Parisians together, for just a moment, in a way that even the November 13 terrorist attacks could not.
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Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt / AFP / Getty France’s Paradoxes, Embodied in a Cathedral
France is a secular republic, dedicated to the principle of laïcité, or the absence of religion in public life. But it has as its national symbol the Notre-Dame cathedral.
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Hubert Hitier / AFP / Getty Witnessing the Fall of Notre-Dame
It survived eight centuries of plague, war, revolution, and the Nazis. How could it be burning?
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FREEDOMPIC / Crush Rush / Shutterstock / The ... Berlusconi Was Trump Before Trump
The Berlusconi era—full of flashy parties, legal misdeeds, and too much news for the Italian public to keep track of—foreshadowed America’s current predicament.
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Tony Gentile / Reuters Pope Benedict Says Blame the ’60s for Priests’ Abuse
Benedict, the pope emeritus, weighed in on the Catholic Church’s abuse crisis. What was once opaque becomes clearer, and even stranger.
