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  • Saturday, 30 April, 2022
    Europe Express
    One step forwards, two steps back for Europe’s hard right Premium content

    Illiberal populists and nativists suffered some setbacks this week but will be around for years to come

  • Monday, 28 February, 2022
    News in-depthSpanish politics
    Spain’s centre-right weakened by internal feud as it battles Vox threat

    Fight inside PP and hard right’s strong poll showing have potential to reshape political landscape

  • Monday, 31 January, 2022
    Gideon Rachman
    The international cult of Vladimir Putin

    If the Russian leader triumphs in Ukraine, his thuggish style will gain new followers

  • Friday, 28 January, 2022
    Alternative für Deutschland
    Leader of Germany’s AfD quits over party’s drift to radical right

    Jörg Meuthen, seen as a relative moderate, opposed far-right colleagues’ criticism of pandemic measures

  • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
    Janan Ganesh
    The west is a victim of its own long peace

    War veteran Bob Dole was one of the last public figures who felt the costs of political extremism

  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    Slawomir Sierakowski
    Poland’s disdain for the rule of law

    Kaczynski’s stand-off with the EU allows him to play the traditional role of defender of an oppressed nation

  • Tuesday, 14 September, 2021
    News in-depthNorway
    Norway vote puts Scandinavia’s social democrats back in driving seat

    Germany is next target for Europe’s centre-left as fragmented politics tests ability to build coalitions

  • Monday, 28 June, 2021
    Gideon Rachman
    Democracy in Europe adjusts to the far right

    Rightwing extremism is a chronic condition, not a mortal threat, for the EU political order

  • Thursday, 10 June, 2021
    Michael Peel
    Renegade soldier is a worrying sign of far-right sympathies in Europe

    Disappearance of Belgian marksman has highlighted risks of extremism within military establishments

  • Friday, 28 May, 2021
    Timothy Garton Ash
    Orban’s visit illustrates UK’s post-Brexit balancing act

    The tension between Britain’s interests and values has become more acute since it left the EU

  • Tuesday, 11 May, 2021
    Catherine Fieschi
    Europe’s phantom political centre risks fuelling populism

    New coalitions and electoral strategies disguise opportunism and an absence of ideological substance

  • Sunday, 9 May, 2021
    Europe
    Madrid success raises hopes of Europe’s struggling centre-right

    Conservative firebrand Díaz Ayuso cut through traditional party lines for resounding win

  • Sunday, 4 April, 2021
    News in-depthItalian politics
    Italy’s Five Star plans break with the past

    Former PM Giuseppe Conte to remould movement whose mission is seen by its supporters as ‘pure protest’

  • Thursday, 1 April, 2021
    Orban plots new populist alliance for European parliament

    Hungary’s nationalist leader hosts Poland’s Morawiecki and Italy’s Salvini for talks on political bloc

  • Thursday, 18 March, 2021
    Fidesz
    Hungary’s Fidesz finalises EPP divorce

    Viktor Orban’s party has long had fraught relationship with Europe’s centre-right grouping

  • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
    Viktor Orbán
    Orban’s party leaves centre-right group in European parliament

    Hungarian PM pulls Fidesz out of EPP after ‘hostile’ rule change

  • Sunday, 24 January, 2021
    Tony Barber
    Europe’s far right is often its own worst enemy

    Anti-establishment populists in the Netherlands and Estonia are on the back foot

  • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
    Hungary
    Hungary limits rights of gay couples and changes electoral rules

    Critics say Orban and his far-right Fidesz party have run roughshod over European values

  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
    News in-depthRomania
    Far-right party changes political landscape in Romania

    Nationalist alliance formed a year ago set to be fourth-largest group in parliament after election last week

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    Gideon Rachman
    Corruption is rotting the periphery of Europe

    The continent’s problems extend to troubled democracies beyond Hungary and Poland

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    Tony Barber
    Defiant women take on ageing autocrats and machine politicians

    Female leaders and activists spearhead change in central and eastern Europe

  • Wednesday, 14 October, 2020
    Golden Dawn
    Greece’s Golden Dawn leaders sentenced to 13 years in jail

    Neo-Nazi party heads ran criminal organisation responsible for murder and attacks on migrants on trade unionists

  • Wednesday, 14 October, 2020
    News in-depth
    Europe’s far-right stumbles as infighting and rivals sap strength

    In Austria, Germany and Italy support for once-ascendant populists has dwindled during Covid crisis

  • Monday, 12 October, 2020
    Austria
    Viennese voters turn their backs on populist Freedom party

    Resounding victory for centrist politics in the Austrian city’s important municipal elections

  • Sunday, 11 October, 2020
    InterviewSlovakia
    Europe must be tougher on rule of law, says Slovak president

    Zuzana Caputova warns EU risks becoming ‘hostage’ to authoritarian member states

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