2017 could be the year of the far-right in Europe, and spell the end of the EU.
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The far-right candidate has published a 144-point plan for her proposed presidency.
Here are five political leaders from around the world who are emerging as significant talents and possible contenders for influence in 2017 and beyond.
The Front National leader is feeling confident after Brexit and Trump.
The far right isn’t afraid to admit to fear in the wake of brutal attacks like the one in Nice. More mainstream politicians would be wise to follow suit.
Radical right populists are on the brink of power in Austria and making gains across the region. And the European leaders who once were willing to publicly condemn them are silent now.
All across the continent, euroscepticism is offering a new outlet for old feelings.
Sweeping changes to employment law are of far greater concern than allegations that the Front National has been avoiding tax.
France was left reeling by the attacks of January 2015 and things only got worse as the year unfolded – so why the political inertia?
The French regional elections were far from a nationalist wipeout. But can Marine Le Pen make good on what the party has achieved?
After storming the first round of France’s regional elections, Marine Le Pen’s far-right party has been humiliated. But all is not lost.
With its share of the vote rising with each election, can the extreme-right party take power on its own? The example of the French communists during the postwar boom suggests otherwise.
France’s extreme-right party has national ambitions, but its lead in the first round of local elections puts it in direct contradiction with its long-proclaimed ideology.
The far-right Front National leads after the first round of voting, leaving Hollande and Sarkozy with some thinking to do.
Furious nativist radicals are on the march – but are they really all birds of a feather?
The founder of France’s far-right movement and his daughter, the current president, have had a spectacular and very public falling out.
German philosopher Jurgen Habermas once famously pronounced the European Union a force for good: A model for what he described as a “cosmopolitan world order.” The Nobel committee agreed and in 2012 awarded…
The SNP, Plaid Cymru and UKIP are the new faces in the UK election in 2015 but they reflect a wider change.
Jean-Marie and Marine need to split up in a way that benefits them both.
Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel, Soumission, was published just hours before the attacks on the office of Charlie Hebdo. It consolidates his reputation – for better or worse – as one of the few contemporary…
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