A left-wing surge in the French legislative race threatens to hobble Emmanuel Macron
The president’s party won 25.75 per cent of the vote, marginally ahead of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s 25.66 per cent.
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When Putin says he sees himself as an 18th-century imperialist, believe him.
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Exclusive polling: leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon ahead in French legislative race
An alliance of the left could deny Emmanuel Macron a parliamentary majority.
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“Merkel’s policy of not arming Ukraine failed”: top CDU official on Germany and Russia
Jürgen Hardt, the foreign affairs spokesperson for Germany’s main opposition party, also blames Olaf Scholz for not being hard enough.
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In Ukraine, Russian is now “the language of the enemy”
The linguistic migration away from Russian that has been happening for decades has a new urgency in the wake of…
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Paul Mason’s Diary: My bid to become a Labour MP and why we must not let Ukraine fade into the background
We are living through the worst crisis since the Second World War: everything must be reframed around the survival of…
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Boris Johnson’s Britain stands as an international epitome of visionless drift
The prime minister resembles Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s former PM, who offered boosterish posturing in place of substance.
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Headache for Emmanuel Macron as support for the French left surges
As the parliamentary elections loom, 64 per cent of voters say they want to see the president forced into a…
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