Alice Weidel took the German far right to new heights. Here’s how she did it.
One in five voters in the German election favored the far right. The AfD leader’s dramatic rise terrifies many of the others.
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Sewage scandal: The dirty secret polluting England and Wales
Since Brexit, the UK is no longer subject to European water quality standards. In England and Wales, floods of untreated wastewater have been discharged into rivers and seas, harming the health of residents and destroying ecosystems. FRANCE 24’s Down …
EU’s IRIS² satellite plan runs into mega complications against SpaceX’s Starlink
Elon Musk’s Starlink is stealing a march on the EU’s fledgling alternative.
How to stay sane and clean in the Brussels machine
Money, power, attention: You’ll need a strategy to stop Eurobubble high life from sullying your soul.
Ukraine war briefing: day of mourning in Kyiv after missile strike on children’s hospital
Mayor says flags will fly at half-mast after devastating attacks on capital and other cities kill dozens. What we know on day 867See all our Ukraine war coverageA day of mourning has been declared in Kyiv by mayor Vitali Klitschko after a daylight Russ…
Macron bets the house in election to break far-right momentum in France
After a humiliating defeat at the hands of Le Pen’s National Rally, France’s president is now making a high-risk roll of the dice.
Is France’s far-right wunderkind Jordan Bardella the new face of Europe?
Slick, disciplined and a hit with young voters, the president of the National Rally is remaking the party in his image.
‘Crystal clear’ that Europe needs a Starlink-like secure satellite program, says space boss
“We have to have a secure connectivity program,” said the European Space Agency’s director general.
French beekepers prepare for killer Asian hornets to emerge from hibernation
Asian hornets were first detected on French soil in 2004, and the invasive species has since spread rapidly across the country and the rest of Europe, including Germany, Spain and the UK. Asian hornets are known to be a major cause of high bee mortali…
Barcelona’s tourism industry going ‘unpunished’ amid drought, activists say
As the Spanish region of Catalonia battles its worst drought on record, activists are beginning to question Barcelona’s mass tourism model. Should Spain’s most visited city be allowed to welcome even more tourists this summer amid a state of emergency…
Could Norway become a graveyard for CO2 emissions?
Pumping industrial emissions into the depths of the Earth’s crust – is it a silver bullet to pump the breaks on climate change? Norway says yes, as it prepares to launch the world’s first cross-border carbon storage facility. But will it cut global em…
One year after France’s Gironde wildfires, bark beetles attack forests
One year on from the historic wildfires that decimated the woodlands of Gironde in south-western France, the bark beetle is adding insult to injury. Bark beetle larvae usually feed off the sap of dead trees, but after the fires left so many trees weak…