I left Berlin for a flat overlooking the Bosphorus – and after a decade with a partner, found even Christmas could be joyfulRecently I found this note in my 2021 diary: “Moved into this apartment five days ago, waiting for loneliness to catch up, but i…
Pedro Sánchez has remained a rare bulwark of social democracy in an increasingly right-leaning continentAs Labour’s electoral honeymoon slips into distant-memory territory and Keir Starmer attempts to reboot his premiership, the party and its leader mi…
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni among those admiring Berlinguer as new film and exhibitions celebrate his role as a unifierEnrico Berlinguer was a giant of the Italian left in the 1970s and 80s, coming close to leading the Communist party into government thr…
She’s probably not backing a candidate in the Tory leadership race, but Britain’s brief prime minister has some thoughts on the state of the country.
For as long as the center fails to make its case in a way that galvanizes, there will be many more like Sahra Wagenknecht.
An 18-year-old Austrian man was shot dead by German police in Munich on Thursday after opening fire near the Israeli consulate and the Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism. While the motive for the attack is not yet known, Bavari…
Sahra Wagenknecht’s brand of “left conservatism” is upending German politics ahead of critical elections in the east.
When the stories of people like me who lived in the old socialist republic are dismissed, shame can spiral into anger that fuels the far rightWhen I went to school in the 1990s, GDR literature wasn’t taught or read. It was treated as something shameful…
The EU is complicated, so let’s break it down for our cousins across the Atlantic.
Has the European Commission president given up on her green agenda going into a possible second term — or is she just biding her time?
Spain recalls ambassador from Buenos Aires and demands apology from Argentina’s populist presidentThe Spanish government has recalled its ambassador from Buenos Aires and repeated its calls for Argentina’s populist president, Javier Milei, to apologise…
Socialism is “cursed and cancerous” and “invites death”, and the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (PSOE/S&D) is “corrupt”, Argentina’s President Javier Milei said on Sunday, speaking at the Europa VIVA 24 rally organised by the far-righ…
Le Pen, Orbán and Meloni rail against socialism and ‘massive illegal migration’ at ‘great patriotic convention’ in MadridInternational far-right leaders, including France’s Marine Le Pen, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Argentina’s J…
Minister fears country is “on the verge of civil war” after attempted assassination.
Ex-UK prime minister has a warning for the man hoping return to the White House.
Lettuce read the new tome by Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister so you don’t have to.
Victory for pro-Palestinian firebrand follows the ugliest by-election campaign in living memory.
The outspoken Liverpool football manager announced he’s stepping down. POLITICO selected his hottest politics takes.
Carola Rackete, who made her name defying Italy’s far right, is set to lead Die Linke party into European elections in JuneShe made her name as the captain of a ship that rescued stranded migrants from the Mediterranean. But now Carola Rackete is embar…
European leaders gathered in Paris to pay tribute before the coffin of former European Commission President Jacques Delors.
The Guardian’s former European editor looks back on the achievements of the great French statesman, who has died aged 98At first glance, Jacques Delors did not readily fit the label of being some kind of radical, let alone “revolutionary”, figure. His …
