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Maria Guzenina, Finnish Social Democratic party candidate, says ‘it would be a mistake’ to bring Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy into the centre

Far right ideology has not changed, it has become normalised in the minds of voters, thanks to a snowball effect

A rightwing maverick who triggered Brexit, or a jovial presenter on reality TV? Who is the new leader of the UK’s Reform party?

What if the far right gets its act together? Europeans are picking a parliament this week, the first since the EU's significance went to the next level with Covid, the war in Ukraine as well as showdowns over Chinese dumping and US tech. Europe matters more than before, yet for…

In Italy, the main political parties contesting the EU election have held their last major rallies, outlining very different visions of the European Union. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has denounced an “increasingly technocratic and undemocratic Europe" while her main opponent, Elly Schlein of the Democratic Party, has called for…

Nigel Farage, who announced on Monday an eighth bid to become a British MP, has risen from fringe eurosceptic rabble-rouser to an attention-grabbing figurehead who wants to "reshape" right-wing UK politics.

For years North Macedonia has been compromising with its neighbours in the hope of one day joining the European Union, even adding "north" to its name to appease Greece.

Commission chief is not running in MEP elections but is doing all she can to boost increasingly shaky bid for second term

Citizen activists in southeastern France’s Alpes-de-Hautes-Provence region have been campaigning for two years against the growing number of solar power parks in a protected natural area around the Lure mountain. The local authorities, and the parks' investors, claim the plants are “essential” projects in the fight against climate change, and…