Le Pen herself has rejected the term far right as she seeks to normalize her National Rally party and bolster her electoral chances. She fiercely opposes immigration and is one of the most famous far-right politicians in Europe. Bruce pointed to U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s fiery speech at the Munich Security Conference in February,…
Almost every night, you can find a documentary on World War II when flipping through channels on German television. Despite the strong result of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party with 20 percent of the vote, Germany’s active memory culture of the Holocaust serves as a basis for its democracy and as a push…
But while Fico’s trip was mainly business, the group of Slovak MPs went around admiring Moscow’s architecture, attending theater plays and browsing Russian supermarkets to prove that stories about missing basic food supplies are (totally and completely!) false. Their positive outlook echoed another controversial recent Russia visit: Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson’s Moscow jolly back in…
Barnier’s minority government, backed by a fragile coalition of conservative and centrist lawmakers, does not have the votes needed to pass its legislation outright without the far right’s tacit support. Under the French constitution, the government can pass legislation without parliamentary approval. However, lawmakers can then challenge this through a motion of no confidence, which,…
After POLITICO reached out to Babiš and his ANO party for comment, his right-hand man, ANO Vice Chair Karel Havlíček, replied that “it’s nonsense” to say the party has moved toward the far right. Dita Charanzová told POLITICO that “it was clear from the developments in the Czech Republic that the ANO movement would push nationalistic…
Prolific poster and world’s richest man Elon Musk constantly interacted on his social network X with right-wing influencers paid by a Russia-funded company. Two employees of Russian state-controlled media operation RT allegedly funneled $10 million into Tennessee-based Tenet Media, with the goal of supporting Russian objectives, according to an unsealed indictment in the Southern District…