French far-right scores convincing first-round election win: What to know
France’s far-right party, the National Rally Gained a solid lead early on Controversial leader Marine Le Pen moved a step closer to forming a government after opinion polls showed her ruling National Party was guaranteed victory in the first round of the country’s parliamentary elections on Sunday. President Emmanuel Macron of the centrist Renaissance party […]
Far-right National Rally in reach of being dominant French party after election first round | France
Marine Le Pen’s far-right, anti-immigration party is on the verge of becoming the largest political force in France’s parliament after winning its highest-ever share of the vote in the first round of surprise parliamentary elections. After exit polls showed the far-right had won, left and center candidates began calling for strategic voting to thwart the […]
‘Big trouble’ ahead for Biden as EU sees major far-right shift: Gardiner
Nile Gardiner, former foreign policy advisor under Margaret Thatcher, discusses the ‘dramatic’ shift to the right in the E.U. elections … source
‘Mother of all battles’: French left join forces to beat far-right electoral threat | France
TPosters on the streets of Montreuil, east of Paris, still flutter in the breeze, days after the stages, microphones and politicians who gathered to inaugurate France’s new government have left. Here, from the smoldering ashes of a domestically bickering left, an anti-far-right coalition has risen. The New Popular Front (NFP) is a nervous coalition of […]
Europe live: French far-right candidate assaulted on campaign trail | World news
Important Events Show only important events Please enable JavaScript to use this feature “You can’t be left-wing and be anti-Semitic and racist,” says European Socialist candidate Nicholas SchmidtThe European Commissioner for Luxembourg, who was the European Socialist Party’s leading candidate in the European Parliament elections, joined the campaign in France, warning that “you cannot be […]
EU heads gather to discuss new leadership in wake of far-right election successes – Europe live | European Union
Von der Leyen to stay on in job after EU election boost Jennifer Rankin Ursula von der Leyen Guterres is expected to remain for a second term as European Commission president as EU leaders meet tonight to discuss for the first time the distribution of key European posts. The EU’s 27 heads of state and […]
Far-right policies don’t become palatable just because mainstream politicians adopt them | Kenan Malik
debtFar-right? Extreme right? Radical right? Or just right? The victories of parties such as Marine Le Pen’s Rally National (RN) (rebranded the National Front) and Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the recent EU elections have sparked a debate about whether the “far-right” label should be dropped. audience Editor Fraser Nelson said many political parties […]
‘All eyes are on her’: Italy’s far-right chameleon, Giorgia Meloni, prepares to host the G7 | Giorgia Meloni
circleWhen Giorgia Meloni met with Joe Biden at the White House in March, he played Ray Charles’ “Georgia on My Mind” as she walked into the room. “We have each other’s backs,” he later told reporters, before tenderly kissing her on the forehead at the end of the meeting. The harmonious meeting was the clearest […]
Europe Is Lost to the ‘Far-Right,’ Thanks to ‘Remote Elites in Brussels’
Chinese state media Global Times Conclusion On Monday, he warned that an unexpectedly bad showing for left-wing and “green” parties in the European Parliament elections was likely to “upend European policy on migration, the green transition and aid to Ukraine.” In Europe’s most influential economies, notably France and Germany, primary voting has seen left-wing parties […]
EU elections: significant far-right gains in Germany and France, exit polls show | European parliamentary elections 2024
As data trickled in before official results were announced late Sunday, exit polls showed far-right parties in France and Germany made impressive gains in the European Parliament elections. The success of the far-right in the EU’s two largest member states has exceeded expectations of Italy’s far-right Brothers of Italy party, led by Prime Minister Giorgia […]