Far-Right

Green MEP David Cormand explains how the Greens can challenge the neoliberal and far-right duopoly in the French presidential elections of 2022.

French politics are honing in on the 2022 presidential election – and there is a way for Greens to stay in the race.

A debate over LGBT+ rights became heated as Estonia battled the Covid-19 crisis in 2020. The ruling coalition’s collapse in January 2021 meant that the discussion was suddenly curtailed, and the contentious referendum on the definition of marriage planned for spring cancelled. Where next for the fight for LGBT+ rights now the issue recedes from the spotlight?

Only a bold new universalism can counter the narrow narrative on migration set and exploited by the far right.

Until 2019, Portugal seemed unaffected by the right-wing populism on the rise elsewhere in Europe.

Mario Draghi has reset the agenda and forged a consensus on recovery but the real politics still lies ahead.

How the paranoid political style triggered the implosion of what was a rising force on the Dutch radical right.

The Coronavirus pandemic has become a battleground, with far-right forces leading the attack and undermining respect for nature, science and reason.

Reflections from a landmark conference at Lund University which examined the political ecology of the far right, and why progressives must be awake to this.

AfD, the Lega and the Swedish Democrats have all struggled to find a message amid the pandemic. However, things might be changing.