Challenging How Germany Remembers the 1972 Olympics Attack
You don’t expect to see security guards roaming the foyer of the Hannover State Opera, a well-regarded, midsize opera house in a midsize central Germany city. But before the Saturday…
German Opposition Gambles With Far-Right on Immigration, and Loses
The man who has been heavily favored to become Germany’s next chancellor took an extraordinary gamble this week, both for his political future and his country’s longstanding firewall against political…
Opinion | Migration Is Remaking Our World, and We Don’t Understand It at All
But it is not just doctors whom countries in the rich world lack. Canada, amid an excruciating housing shortage, needs skilled construction workers. Italy needs welders and pastry cooks. Sweden…
How Elon Musk is Using Start-Up Tactics to Disrupt European Politics
They are ripe for disruption. Well before Mr. Musk first backed the AfD, it had become the second most-popular party in Germany. The Social Democrats, the country’s oldest party which…
‘Firewall’ Around the Far Right Wobbles in Germany
The man who is favored to be Germany’s next chancellor has opened the door to working with the Alternative for Germany to pass tough new immigration restrictions, potentially breaking a…
Musk Says Germany Has ‘Too Much of a Focus on Past Guilt’
Elon Musk told a gathering of the hard-right Alternative for Germany party this weekend that the country has “too much of a focus on past guilt,” an apparent effort to…
Opinion | How Europe Swung to the Right
Millions of Europeans will go to the polls this year in a test of the right-wing movements that surged in 2024’s historic elections — and of the liberal order that…
Trump Is Leading a Global Surge to the Right
At the start of his second term President Trump has positioned himself at the crest of a global wave of hard-line conservative populism, offering fuel and inspiration to surging nationalist…