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EPP Isolated After Refusing To Sign Up to Socialist Campaign Stunt

Tamás Orbán May 9, 2024

Center-right parliamentary group walks a tightrope between condemning conservatives and not ruling out future collaboration with them.

Germany To Crack Down on Violence Against Politicians

Tamás Orbán May 8, 2024

The proposed harsher punishment for threatening and assaulting officials is meant to be a symbolic stand against the AfD, even though the nationalist politicians are statistically the most likely to be attacked on the streets.

German Politicians and Media Blame ‘Far-Right’ for Political Violence

Zoltán Kottász May 7, 2024

Alternative für Deutschland’s Alice Weidel called attempts to make political capital from the recent attack on Social Democrat MEP “vile and irresponsible.”

Media Paints French Right-Wing Leader’s Self-Defence As Assault on Woman

Hélène de Lauzun May 6, 2024

Reconquête President Éric Zemmour was met with insults and egg-throwing by a crowd in Corsica.

Government Uses Attack on Leftist Politician To Blame AfD

Zoltán Kottász May 6, 2024

Politicians from the right-wing party have suffered the most physical assaults—not that German mainstream media are reporting this.

Basque Elections or The Long Shadow of Political Violence

Carlos Perona Calvete April 22, 2024

Spain accepted the massive exile of non-separatist Basques from the Basque Country during ETA’s reign of terror: what we sowed in indifference, we reap in disunity.