A gunman shot Slovakia’s prime minister. Here’s what you need to know.
The attempted assassination of Prime Minister Robert Fico happened in a deeply divided political context.
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Kelebogile Zvobgo - January 27, 2024
Germany’s memory landscape helps us teach about the past – and the present.
Anti-establishment centrists may well win the Dutch elections
Erik Voeten - November 20, 2023
Parties that defy conventional labels are shaking up Dutch politics. Are they unicorns – or a model for other countries?
Germany foiled a far-right coup attempt. It still has a right-wing problem.
Rafaela Dancygier, Jonathan Homola, and Jeyhun Alizade - December 13, 2022
The German government hasn’t taken its increasing right-wing extremism as seriously as left-wing extremism. That’s been true for decades, our research finds.
Sweden’s next prime minister will juggle an awkward coalition
Jacob Christensen - September 22, 2022
Passing budgets and laws won’t be easy, given the policy disagreements among the four parties
Sweden’s new governing coalition relies on a party founded by neo-Nazis
Anders Ravik Jupskås - September 15, 2022
That’s a first — but the right-wing parties forming the next government don’t necessarily agree on social and economic issues
Slovenia voted against an illiberal leader and for an untested party
Tim Haughton and Alenka Krasovec - April 25, 2022
Why did a brand-new party win the parliamentary election?
The Czech public voted out their prime minister. Actually getting rid of him may be harder.
Marek Rybar and Kevin Deegan-Krause - October 12, 2021
The covid response — and a series of scandals — tipped the race against the billionaire populist
If LGBTQ voters had decided Germany’s election, the Greens would be in charge
Niklas Ferch, Michael Hunklinger, and Dorothée de Nève - October 11, 2021
Self-identified LGBTQ voters are disappointed that the major parties keep dragging their feet on the community’s rights
Germany’s far-right party lost seats in last week’s election. Here’s why.
Rafaela Dancygier - October 4, 2021
Research suggests centrist parties adopted strategies to counter the right