The fallout from AfD's 'historic victory' in Germany Germany's mainstream parties can no longer pretend Alternative für Deutschland is a political force that will simply disappear ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-europe / / #news / / 46 days 46d Share
The future of Germany's anti-AfD 'firewall' looks bleak Berlin has been the scene of frequent protests against the AfD in general, and its Thuringian leader Björn Höcke, in particular ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-europe / / #news / / 46 days 46d Share
Free speech is dying in Britain Free speech is a much more recent thing in the UK. If it was born in the 1960s, it seems to be dying in the 2020s. spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-europe / / #news / / 48 days 48d Share
Olaf Scholz faces an immigration quagmire The message to Scholz is clear: if he wants to toughen immigration policy, he'll have to do it without the Greens ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-europe / / #news / / 49 days 49d Share
Is it fair to compare Germany's AfD with the Nazis? An AfD win in Thuringia ought not to matter too much to the world. But it was here that the Nazis had their first electoral breakthrough ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-europe / / #news / / 50 days 50d Share
France has become the antisemitic capital of Europe With all the antisemitic abuse in the country, I have to ask again: how long until there are no Jews left in France? spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-europe / / #news / / 52 days 52d Share
How life carries on in Sumy, Ukraine The only appropriate response for the people of Sumy -- to not spend every day in a fit of jitters -- is casual, low-key defiance ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-europe / / #news / / 53 days 53d Share
The absurdist farce of French politics Macron may be narcissistic, disagreeable and responsible for the most intractable political crisis in decades, but he was always right that ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-europe / / #news / / 56 days 56d Share
Is German aid to Ukraine coming to a halt? The opposition has accused Chancellor Scholz of playing party-political games with the Ukraine war, flip-flopping on aid ... spectator.us spectator.us / feeds spectator-us .. spectator-us-features-world-news-europe / / #news / / 58 days 58d Share