French elections

A quarter of a million people marched over leaking buildings and missing teachers, as far left and far right move in and the bond market watches the deficit

Berlin tracks the campaigns but will not confront them. France’s VIGINUM service shows what a clearer mandate can do

Washington wants the EU to release about 120 million barrels over six months to bring down pump prices in the U.S.

A government crisis meeting was told by intelligence services that the movement was “an operation organised by LFI and its proxies on the far left”

Interior minister ⁠Laurent Nunez said that, in some places, troublemakers were moving from school to school to incite violence

Students blockade schools over teacher shortages and overcrowding while government and hard-left leaders trade accusations of violence and repression

This time the alleged author is not a stray local candidate. It is the man Le Pen has promised to install at Matignon

The French President said hybrid attacks by Moscow had intensified and ordered the government to prepare a protection plan for critical infrastructure

Maida Gorčević says Montenegro will take safeguards - but not limited rights - as it waits on the Commission’s proposal

Meloni gave the example by denying to mainstream parties the easy argument that every move to the right is a leap into the unknown

Cloned websites, AI-generated deep fakes and networks of automated accounts illustrate how malign actors exploit the architecture of social media

The trillionaire leverages immense wealth, technological platforms, and personal influence to reshape political discourse on both sides of the Atlantic