Elections in Europe
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Musk congratulates far-right Weidel for coming 2nd in German election

Sahra Wagenknecht’s party threatens legal challenge to German election result

Zelenskyy, Netanyahu, Macron congratulate Merz on German election win

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Friedrich Merz gives women voters the ick
Germany’s likely next chancellor faces a key challenge: winning over women.
The end of Germany’s climate crusade
One of the world’s most climate-ambitious governments is about to fall, replaced by a likely chancellor who says green policy went too far.
How Germany’s far right is harnessing AI to win votes
Artificially generated clips serve as “nostalgia machines and emotional cliché amplifiers” ahead of Feb. 23 election.
Germany’s Left comes back from the dead
Once written off as a party in terminal decline, Die Linke is defying expectations with a youth-driven resurgence.
The city that exposes Germany’s deep migration divide
The election race in Schwerin pits a migration official against a far-right politician who’s taken a hard line on the issue.
Angry farmers push Poland away from Ukraine
After nearly three years of war in Ukraine, protests by Polish farmers are opening up social and political fractures in a once-unshakeable alliance.
JD Vance won’t meet Germany’s Scholz at Munich Security Conference
“We don’t need to see him, he won’t be chancellor long,” a former U.S. official said of Vance’s thinking.
French PM Bayrou survives budget fight but finds himself boxed in
A brewing debate on immigration threatens the unity of Bayrou’s minority government.
Germany’s Olaf Scholz hits back at racism accusations in election race
The allegation comes less than two weeks before Scholz’s party is poised to face a heavy defeat in Germany’s federal election.
Germany’s far-left party sees membership surge before election
The Left’s boost in numbers fuels hope of clearing the 5 percent threshold to enter the Bundestag.
Macron picks close ally to lead court that could decide Le Pen’s fate
Richard Ferrand’s appointment drew criticism even before being made official.
Romania’s Klaus Iohannis announces he’ll resign as president
Longtime leader heads for the exit amid political turmoil in Bucharest.
Germany’s far right woos the workers in election battle
Long the preserve of the center left, factories now provide fertile territory for the populist AfD party.
Kosovo PM Albin Kurti wins election amid tensions with Brussels and Washington
But Kurti’s ruling party fell short of a majority and will need to find a coalition partner if it hopes to continue in power.
Here’s what Germany’s next government will look like
Germany’s conservatives are desperate to avoid a three-party coalition, but the outcome depends on how many small parties make it into parliament.
Russia supported sabotage spree in Germany to roil election campaign, report says
A wave of car vandalism, initially blamed on climate activists, is now being linked to Moscow.
Let’s kill the Green Deal together with the far right, ECR tells EPP
The Christian Democrats should abandon their leftist allies, argues Giorgia Meloni’s political family.
Angela Merkel throws firework into German election campaign
Former chancellor’s intervention exposes deep rift within country’s conservatives over how to handle the far right’s rising influence.
Germany’s Scholz lashes out at Musk’s ‘disgusting’ interventions in Europe
German chancellor has finally had enough of the tech billionaire and Donald Trump adviser.
How Vladimir Putin killed the EU’s frugal coalition
The need to counter Russia is shifting the attitudes of rich northern countries on budget discipline.
Putin congratulates Lukashenko on totally ‘convincing’ Belarus election win
Victory “demonstrates your high political authority,” the Kremlin chief gushes about his counterpart in Minsk.