Far Right

Explained: Why Europe looks at Italy’s Giorgia Meloni with caution and trepidation

The victory of far-right leader Giorgia Meloni has sent a tremour through the European establishment. The bloc worries that if she lasts long, she could energise far-right Eurosceptics in other big countries like France, which would 'make a real difference'

Explained: What far-right leader Giorgia Meloni's Italy win means for Europe

While Giorgia Meloni ran as a moderate, close watchers of politics aren’t sure as to how she feels with regard to Europe. Some call her a danger and a harbinger of a populist resurgence, while others predict she will be held in check by fiscal realities and her coalition partners

Far-right Giorgia Meloni set to become the first female PM of Italy: Opinion polls

If Meloni's party wins the 25 Septemberer polls, then she will also become the nation's first far-right leader since the Second World War. Also, it would come almost 100 years after Benito Mussolini came to power in October 1922

France braces for Marine Le Pen-Emmanuel Macron showdown after polarising election campaign

Macron is the favourite to win re-election in the run-off ballot on 24 April, and there are indications he bolstered his advantage with a combative performance in the one-off election debate against Le Pen

French President Emmanuel Macron wades into heated debate over executive pay

Macron, who is campaigning against far-right leader Marine Le Pen, told Franceinfo radio that he was in favour of an EU-wide ceiling for top executives' pay

Nail-biting election on cards in France as Emmanuel Macron's rival, far-right leader Marine Le Pen, surges ahead

Both Macron and Le Pen are expected to advance again from the first-round field of 12 candidates, to set up a winner-takes-all rematch in the second-round vote on 24 April, 2022

Greek court imprisons far-right Golden Dawn party leadership for running criminal enterprise

The court granted suspended sentences to five of the party's 18 former lawmakers who were convicted of lesser charges

Greek court sentences leadership of far-right Golden Dawn to 13 years in prison for running criminal enterprise

The landmark ruling follows a five-year trial of dozens of top officials, members and supporters of Golden Dawn, which was founded as a neo-Nazi group in the 1980s

Fighting fake news in Ukraine, Facebook fact-checkers tread an increasingly blurry line

Many European countries struggle with Far-Right groups, but critics said they are tolerated to an excessive degree in Ukraine because they share a common enemy with the country’s intellectual mainstream: Russia

Hanau shooting: Germany to raise police presence after nine killed in racist attack; mosques to be under surveillance

Germany's top security official said Friday that authorities will step up the police presence throughout the country and keep a closer watch on mosques and other sites after the racially motivated shootings that killed nine people