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April 10th, 2026
France: Major victories for the RN are rare
In France's two-round municipal elections, the far right performed well, though not spectacularly.
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March 17th, 2026
New right-wing party in Italy: Futuro Nazionale
The Lega, the party of Italian Minister Matteo Salvini, is facing meltdown after a split. In early February, popular MEP Roberto Vannacci announced his resignation and founded the National Future party.
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February 10th, 2026
Elections in Portugal and Slovenia
Shortly before this newsletter was published, the presidential elections in Portugal were decided by a runoff vote. The candidate from the center-left camp, Social Democrat António José Seguro from the Partido Socialista, was elected as the new president with …
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February 10th, 2026
Poland: Elections won, unity gone
After right-wing conservative Karol Nawrocki won the presidential election in early June 2025, there were some changes in Poland's political landscape, but there was no unstoppable rise of the far right. Although Nawrocki was able to unite the entire right …
Articles
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April 10th, 2026
AfD Divided Over U.S. Interventionism
The Trump administration’s numerous military and other international interventions continue to cause disagreement within the AfD over the appropriate foreign policy course.
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April 10th, 2026
Inconclusive results in Slovenia
Incumbent Governor Robert Golob secured a razor-thin majority (28.6 percent) on March 22, but lost his liberal-left governing majority, leaving the state facing a difficult task in forming a government.
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April 10th, 2026
Netherlands: FvD Gains Ground
GroenLinks and the Social Democratic Labor Party (PvdA), which are set to merge, barely managed to jointly defend their nationwide lead in the local elections in the Netherlands.
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April 10th, 2026
AfD networking in Argentina
Two AfD lawmakers traveled to Argentina, where they established contacts with members of the Milei administration and the Argentine-Uruguayan FREE Foundation.
Interviews
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March 10th, 2026
"Probably the new government will act very repressive": Interview with Pierina Ferretti
Pierina Ferretti, sociologist and director of the foundation Nodo XXI talks in interview about her expectations regarding the new government of José Antonio Kast in Chile.
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February 10th, 2026
Questions about EU-Mercosur Agreement in dilemma. Interview with Thomas Fritz
Before its introduction, the EU-Mercosur agreement was referred to the European Court of Justice by the European Parliament for review. The decision was criticized for geopolitical reasons and has fueled a debate about the firewall against the right wing.
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August 12th, 2025
'The Next Wave'. Interview with Neil Datta on his new report.
In 2021, the report “Tip of the Iceberg”, conducted by Neil Datta for the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual & Reproductive Rights, exposed a decade (2009-2018) of $700 million in funding for anti-gender activism in Europe. His new report, The Next Wave,
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June 10th, 2025
Steven Forti: Freedom and equality must go hand in hand
Growing social inequality is one reason for the decayof democracies and for the rise of far right-wing, says the italian historian Steven Forti. He describes Milei as the Argentine shape of that phonomenon.