How to Stop Regime Change in Europe
In a new book published this month in the Netherlands, Bas Erlings, a former strategic advisor for the center-right liberal People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), argues categorically against ...
Tag: Populism
Dutch Government Collapses After Far-Right Party Leaves Coalition
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the collapse of the Dutch government, an early presidential election in South Korea, and Gaza’s deadly aid crisis. Triggering New Elections ...
Romania’s Far Right Is More Extreme Than You Think
On May 4, in the first round of Romania’s presidential elections, far-right candidate George Simion amassed a stunning, but not surprising, 41 percent of the vote, nearly twice as much ...
Israel Is Ready to Embrace Europe’s Far Right
In February, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar instructed his ministry to open quiet talks with far-right parties in France, Spain, and Sweden that had until that time been officially boycotted ...
The Morass of the French Left
Politicians in France tend to write a lot of books. Essays are expected of any serious presidential aspirant. Memoirs are a must for any politician worth their salt. And in ...
Can a Conservative Win Back Canada?
In 1999, Pierre Poilievre, then a 20-year-old commerce student at the University of Calgary, pulled an all-nighter to enter a national essay contest with the prompt, “As prime minister, I ...
Marine Le Pen Found Guilty of Embezzlement
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at another shake-up in French politics, the devastating earthquake in Myanmar, and Israeli reoccupation efforts in Gaza. Sign up to receive World ...
Turkey Can’t Live With, or Without, Erdogan
It is hard to pinpoint exactly when Recep Tayyip Erdogan slipped from the supreme self-confidence of successful politicians to narcissistic hubris. It might have been after the Arab uprisings in ...
