European politics - The Japan Times

The election was a warning to centrists to do more to integrate immigrants.

Hungary's Viktor Orban may have pushed the boundaries of the acceptable, but he's at home in some mainstream European parties

No government, no administration, no political party can afford to neglect these new forces to which the digital age has given birth.

Can the rise of populism in Europe be contained?

All over Europe, politicians and commentators are rolling up Brexit and Trump into one ball of populist horror, and spitting on it.

While the ideological center has held in this election, France's established political parties have been rejected.

The bloc's growing popularity is helping centrist leaders win, but without reform the effect won't last.

The "populist wave" that seemed to be sweeping through Western politics turns out to be merely a storm in the Anglosphere teacup.

If left-wing parties can't appeal to the working class, what's their use?

Unless the Socialists can pull a rabbit out of a hat, France will get a Putin-friendly president next year.