European populists

Fighting for her political life, National Rally leader Marine Le Pen appeared before a Paris court this week as she appeals an embezzlement case, which has seen her barred from standing in any election for five years.

In his New Year’s Eve message to the nation, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has cast 2026 as critical to the populist movement’s prospects of dethroning the political establishment and saving Britain

The groundwork for a potential Anglo-Franco alliance against illegal immigration appeared to be laid this week as the two front-running populist candidates to take power in London and Paris agreed to a new borders framework.

Far-left violence erupted in the town of Giessen on Saturday morning as the sovereigntist Alternative for Germany (AfD) launched its new youth branch, sparking Antifa attacks on politicians and police.

The Portuguese lawmakers passed a bill to bar the “concealment of faces in public spaces” in a bid to outlaw the Islamic practice of veiling women, which opponents have argued represents repression of women.

French political firebrand Marion Maréchal has called on the various factions of the right-wing to unite to defeat the forces of the left and the neo-liberal establishment in Paris.

Former Czech Prime Minister and populist billionaire Andrej Babiš and his ANO party emerged as the winners of the Czech Republic’s parliamentary elections on Saturday; however, a coalition-building process is likely to ensue before the next government is formed.

Brussels is using the supposed threat of climate change to fund mass migration into the European Union, Danish MEP Anders Vistisen said.

A collection of mosques and Islamic organisations filed a complaint against Dutch Party for Freedom leader Geert Wilders on Monday, accusing the populist politician of inciting hatred and violence against Muslims.

The anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has risen to a record level of support as the governing ‘Black-Red’ coalition government fell to a new low after 100 days in power, a survey has found.

Thousands of Poles took to the streets on Saturday as over a hundred “Stop Immigration!” demonstrations were staged in 80 towns and cities across the country.

Prosecutors have appealed last year’s acquittal against Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini over his blocking of an NGO boat from dumping illegals into the country in 2019.

Banning the nation’s second-largest political party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), has become a matter of constant conversation. Yet, a prominent academic has warned that there could be serious consequences for breaking the democratic system.

The European Court of Human Rights shut down a request from French populist leader Marine Le Pen to overturn the “political death sentence” ban against her running for office for the next five years.

The headquarters of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party in Paris were raided in the early hours of Wednesday morning, with police seizing documents and computers, prompting accusations of politically inspired lawfare.

French populist leader Marine Le Pen faces more legal troubles as European prosecutors have opened up an investigation into her party finances.

Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders announced Wednesday that his Party for Freedom (PVV) will support proposed reforms to the asylum system in the Netherlands after securing a key concession to officially criminalise being an illegal migrant in the country.

Germany’s most senior policeman has claimed that being a supporter of the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is “incompatible” with being an officer of the law.

The incoming president of Poland has joined Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in opposing European Union membership for Ukraine, arguing that it would go against the interests of his people.

A former BfV chief warned that the German intelligence community has been “weaponised” to target right-wing movements in the country.

The stunning victory of upstart conservative candidate Karol Nawrocki in the Polish presidential elections was hailed by pro-Trump populists as it sent shockwaves throughout the European Union.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party has vowed to revive the winter fuel subsidies for the elderly and to fund the programme by cutting the green agenda and the migrant hotel scheme.

Both Poland and Romania will host presidential elections this Sunday, and a joint rally by the sovereigntist candidates from both nations saw a crowd of Polish voters chant the U.S. President’s name in response to a call for border control.

The head of Budapest’s Office for the Protection of Sovereignty claimed that tens of millions of dollars from the United States and the European Union have funded left-leaning media institutions over the past three years, with the intent of overthrowing the conservative government of Viktor Orbán in Hungary.

The case to brand the AfD as an extremist group appears to have been primarily built on mere political opinions said in public.

Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe will not face criminal charges over alleged threats made against Reform UK chairman Zia Yusuf.

Surveillance of AfD party officials violates laws protecting politicians from state persecution and is “endangering democracy”, AfD leader Björn Höcke argued,

The British public now sees Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party as the main opposition to the Labour government, as the neo-liberal ‘Conservatives’ continue to bleed support since their disastrous defeats in last year’s general elections and the local England votes this month.

The neo-liberal government of Poland has claimed that Russia has deployed an “unprecedented” level of disinformation and other interference tactics amid the impending presidential election, as the conservative challenger has gained in the polls.

The campaign of neo-liberal Mayor of Bucharest to defeat self-styled “MAGA candidate” George Simion in the upcoming second round of the Romanian presidential election has struggled to gain the support of key establishment figures, portending difficulties in building a large enough coalition to take down the populist frontrunner.

The leftist-liberal coalition government of Romania appears on the precipice of collapse in the wake of the strong victory of populist George Simion in the first round of the redo presidential election on Sunday.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party plans to hit the ground running after its stunning victory at the local council elections in England last week, with leadership vowing to use their newfound power to block illegal migrants from being housed in areas they control and to launch legal challenges against the leftist government’s green agenda.

Populist-sovereigntist candidate George Simion came out on top in the first round of voting in the Romanian presidential election on Sunday. The election was held after the previous election was annulled, and the leading candidate was barred from running in the re-do contest.

German police officers may face expulsion if they are found to be members of the populist AfD party after a spy agency classified the party as being “right-wing extremist”.

The Trump administration has accused Berlin of acting in a tyrannical manner after a top intelligence agency officially branded the populist AfD party as an “extremist” group over its stance against mass migration, paving the way for more government spying against the right-wing party.

The populist-sovereigntist leaders of Hungary and Slovakia warned this week that Brussels risks destroying the fabric of the European Union if the ascension of Ukraine into the bloc is forced through over their objections.