TAG: Far right
A warning for 2024: The losers of the green revolution won’t go quietly
After pioneering the green revolution, Europe is now living under its shadow: the counterrevolution....
8 months ago
EU conservatives are fueling far right with Green Deal crusade, Spain’s deputy PM warns
Europe’s center-right leaders assailing green policies are only feeding the rise of a Trump-style po...
8 months ago
French farmers block highways and aim for Yellow Jacket redux
AGEN, France — A group of farmers brewed coffee in an improvised camp surrounded by tractors and hay...
8 months ago
Dutch farmers back Wilders as centrist nightmares come true
Geert Wilders is everything European centrists loathe. Now, the far-right Dutch firebrand is winning over the farmers Brussels has spent decades trying to placate. Wilders — who stood on an anti-migrant, Euroskeptic platform and has previously called for...
6 months ago
France’s fiscal woes cast a long shadow over Macron’s EU ambitions
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron's lofty European leadership ambitions are once again getting a reality check. The French government is scrambling to make savings and reassure financial markets after official figures this week showed that public...
6 months ago
Missing: A Socialist Green Deal vision
BRUSSELS — A specter is haunting the European Union: The specter of the Green Deal. And Europe’s Socialists are running scared. Over the past year, an alliance has formed to exorcize this specter: Populists and conservatives, nationalists and farmers, Fre...
6 months ago
The MEPs who actually matter
This article is part of the Brussels Survival Guide.There’s plenty to pay attention to in the new cohort entering the European Parliament — including, of course, the people. See below our guide on key figures across the policy palette.Céline Imart AGRICUL...
2 months ago
It’s Christmas in July (for Commissioners)! Von der Leyen hands out policy gifts ahead of key vote.
In her bid to win support for a second term, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday handed out a wide range of policy gifts to the political groups in the European Parliament — while presenting herself as a beacon of stability amid...
2 months ago
European markets open higher on relief at French election results
European financial markets breathed a sigh of relief on Monday morning after the first round of France’s parliamentary elections left President Emmanuel Macron’s party with a fighting chance of still being able to influence the next government.The euro ro...
2 months ago
The dirty little secret no politician will admit: There is no way to ‘go for growth’
Investment professionals and politicians who spurned Liz Truss's “go for growth” strategy for the British economy are slowly waking up to an uncomfortable truth.The former U.K. Prime Minister's plan, which relied on unfunded tax cuts that were perceived t...
2 months ago
Von der Leyen threads the climate needle to keep her job
BRUSSELS — Ursula von der Leyen has just pulled off a delicate green balancing act. The German politician secured a second term as European Commission president on Thursday with a political program carefully designed to woo both conservatives and environm...
2 months ago
Pragmatism over principle: Europe’s Greens adapt to survive
BRUSSELS — Europe’s chastened Greens are preparing to trade idealism for influence. After taking a beating in last month’s European Parliament election and losing a quarter of their seats, the environmentalists are scrambling to remain relevant as surging...
2 months ago
Starmer’s ‘quiet’ climate radicalism sets up battle with Farage
LONDON — Early last year, U.K. Labour leader Keir Starmer’s top green lieutenant traveled to Berlin. He was there to take notes on a German government full of climate vim. Starmer’s man Ed Miliband — then in opposition, now the U.K. energy secretary — enc...
2 months ago
Whatever happened to the climate kids?
Five years ago, hundreds of thousands of students walked out of their schools in a coordinated global “strike” to demand climate action — and turned the 2019 EU election into a triumph for the Greens. This month’s vote was different. Green parties crashed...
2 months ago