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GERMAN SPD BACKS TALKS WITH MERKEL AFTER IMPASSIONED EUROPE SPEECH
Social Democratic Party SPD leader Martin Schulz looks on at an SPD party convention in Berlin, Germany, November 7, 2017... READ MORE›
BILLIONAIRE ANDREJ BABIS POISED TO WIN
Andrej Babis' party, ANO Yes, is leading opinion polls but is not expected to secure a majority... READ MORE›
MILLENNIAL MAN KURZ, 31, SET TO TAKE POWER IN AUSTRIA
People's Party top polls in election making Kurz likely to become chancellor -- and Europe's youngest leader... READ MORE›
THIS BLUE-EYED MILLENNIAL IS SET TO BECOME A WORLD LEADER IN EUROPE
After a Social Democratic-People's Party coalition was formed four years ago, Kurz, then 27, became Austria's foreign minister -- the youngest top diplomat in Europe... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | HOW DIRTY CAMPAIGNING AND FAKE FACEBOOK SITES CAME TO DOMINATE THE AUSTRIAN ELECTION
Pedestrians pass campaign posters for Sebastian Kurz of the People's Party and Christian Kern of the Social Democratic Party in Vienna... READ MORE›
'BURQA BAN' LAW SIGNALS RIGHTWARD POLITICAL TURN IN AUSTRIA
Under Chancellor Christian Kern, the Social Democrats are focusing on social topics and claiming credit for Austria's recent economic upturn... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | CAN CORBYN'S LABOUR BE THE WEST'S NEW POLITICAL CENTER?
The real danger is that the Tories might have vaccinated Corbyn... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | LIKE GERMANY'S SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, LEFT-WING PARTIES ARE LOSING GROUND ACROSS EUROPE
The Social Democrats Party SPD party leader Martin Schulz at SPD's headquarters on June 19... READ MORE›
MERKEL SAYS GERMANS NEVER HAD IT BETTER BUT MANY FEEL LEFT BEHIND
Even Mr. Richter at the food bank sees no option for himself at the polls and says he is undecided... READ MORE›
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ROMANIA WAS ABOUT TO APPOINT ITS FIRST MUSLIM PRIME MINISTER. THEN THE PRESIDENT INTERVENED
Romania's president has rejected the nomination of the country's first ever Muslim candidate for prime minister... READ MORE›
PROTESTS ROCK ROMANIA AFTER GOVERNMENT WEAKENS CORRUPTION LAW
More than 250,000 Romanians took to the streets, about half of them in the capital, Bucharest. Thieves, thieves, they shouted, denouncing the government and corruption... READ MORE›
BRAZIL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AIRS HOMOPHOBIC RANT DURING TV DEBATE
The penultimate televised debate before next weekend's presidential election was overshadowed by the homophobic rant of one of the fringe candidates... READ MORE›
FRENCH SOCIALISTS CHOOSE LEFTWING REBEL BENOIT HAMON FOR ELYSEE FIGHT
Hamon's first challenge now is to try to stop the French Socialist party imploding between its warring leftwing and centre-left factions... READ MORE›
CLINTON'S LOSS IS ONE MORE NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF CENTER-LEFT POLITICS IN THE WEST
In Germany and Britain, once-mighty center-left parties have been badly diminished, locked out of their nations' top jobs for the foreseeable future... READ MORE›
BREXIT CAUSES RESURGENCE IN PRO-EU LEANINGS ACROSS CONTINENT
Rightwing populist party Alternative fur Deutschland, meanwhile, has seen its ratings drop by three percentage points to 11 percent ... READ MORE›
'PEOPLE HAVE LOST HOPE': YOUNG AUSTRIANS ON THE RISE OF THE FAR RIGHT
A Vienna city councillor since leaving parliament in 2012, the staunchly pro-European Van der Bellen led the Austrian Greens from 1997 to 2008... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | ONE REASON WOMEN STRIKE? IT GETS RESULTS.
A Day Without a Woman is intended as a protest against President Trump, slated to coincide with International Women's Day... READ MORE›
FOR FRANCES LEFT, A TIME OF CRISIS
A member of France's oldest trade union, Mr. Ducourtioux, 52, was a stalwart Socialist Party voter who once might have been inside, cheering... READ MORE›
JEREMY CORBYN, WELCOME TO EUROPES FIGHT AGAINST AUSTERITY
Podemos only became the political-electoral expression of that movement because the Spanish Socialist party seemed to many voters just like the conservative People's party... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | IS IT TOO LATE FOR THE WEST'S CENTER-LEFT?
Lodewijk Asscher, the Labor party leader and deputy prime minister, laments the center-left's inability to hold onto its working-class base... READ MORE›
IN FRANCE ONCE POWERFUL SOCIALISTS STAND LITTLE CHANCE OF WINNING ELECTION
The reasons for the surprising demise of the Socialist Party in France are manifold... READ MORE›
ANGELA MERKEL, SQUEEZED BY FAR RIGHT, NOW FACES A RISING LEFT
Unquestionably, Mr. Trump's election has so deeply altered the geopolitical landscape for Ms. Merkel... READ MORE›
THE NEW POLITICS OF FEAR
Juppe was the moderate in the group, and a significant number of Socialist Party supporters crossed into the other side's contest to help him... READ MORE›
PM STEFAN LOFVEN WANTS TO CURB FLOW OF FOREIGN WORKERS
Lofven said there were 100,000 jobs available and 300,000 people unemployed in Sweden... READ MORE›
FEAR OF MIGRANTS AND LOATHING OF ELITES DRIVE A SMALL AUSTRIAN TOWN TO FAR RIGHT
In Vienna, we Austrians beat the Turks in 1683, but now the Turks rule Vienna like it's theirs... READ MORE›
AUSTRIA PRESIDENTIAL VOTE: POSTAL BALLOTS TO DECIDE RESULT
In the first round last month, Mr Hofer secured 35 percent of the votes, while Mr Van der Bellen polled 21 percent ... READ MORE›
IN AUSTRIAN ELECTION FAR-RIGHT CANDIDATE IS DEADLOCKED WITH RIVAL
Speaking for an hour, Mr. Strache denounced Mr. Van der Bellen as the epitome of a worn-out establishment whose welcome culture for migrants endangered Austria... READ MORE›
CORBYN COMPARISON SEEN AS PRAISE AND INSULT IN FRENCH SOCIALIST RACE
Benoit Hamon's favourable mention of UK Labour leader after winning first round of primary outrages rival Manuel Valls... READ MORE›
CENTRISTS AND THE LEFT IN A POLARISED WORLD
O Owen Jones criticises, with some justification, the inadequacy of political labels within the Labour party... READ MORE›
STELLA CREASY CALLS ON LABOUR TO REJECT 'TRIBALISM' AS IT SMACKS OF BEING THE 'THOUGHT POLICE'
She said Most of my adult life you have had two men running the Labour Party and nobody has said anything about it at all... READ MORE›
FRENCH LEFT-WING CANDIDATES FAIL TO FORGE ALLIANCE IN PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Environmentalist candidate Yannick Jadot, pulled out of the race after securing guarantees from Hamon to move away from nuclear energy and the use of diesel fuel... READ MORE›
PORTUGALS PRESIDENT CLEARS THE WAY FOR A NEW GOVERNMENT
Mr. Passos Coelho won the general election after a campaign in which he warned that a government switch could derail Portugal's recent recovery... READ MORE›
PROSECUTORS AND COURTS SHOULD CRACK DOWN ON 'FAKE NEWS,' SAYS GERMAN JUSTICE MINISTER
With regard to similar cases, Maas now demands an adequate response from the social media, and Facebook in particular... READ MORE›
JEREMY CORBYN RE-ELECTED AS LEADER OF BRITAIN'S LABOUR PARTY
Mr Corbyn's victory marks the next phase in a battle for control of the Labour Party... READ MORE›
ROMANIA'S LEFT TAKES BIG LEAD IN ELECTION
Saying he hoped there would be no conflict over the results, Mr Dragnea said There should be no doubt who won the elections... READ MORE›
ANTI-WATER CHARGES CAMPAIGNER OGLE BLASTS LABOUR
Anti-water charges campaign leader Brendan Ogle has attacked the Labour Party making a rallying call to trade union members to support a new left-wing political dispensation ... READ MORE›
'BECAUSE WE DON'T BELIEVE IN CAPITALISM, WE KNOW HOW TO F**KING MANAGE IT'
Comments must be concise and to the point... READ MORE›
MY TOP INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BOOKS FOR INDIVIDUAL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
Just when I think I'm out of book recommendations for presidential candidates, Washington Post critic Carlos Lozada pulls me back in!... READ MORE›
FRENCH LEFT ON BRINK OF IMPLOSION AS EX-PM MANUEL VALLS BACKS EMMANUEL MACRON FOR PRESIDENT
Mr Valls, 54, a reformist once likened to Tony Blair, is the highest-profile Socialist yet to say he will vote for the 39-year old Mr Macron... READ MORE›