Tyrants are forever: Has Europe missed its mo...

What a week! Tariff threats, Greenland brinkmanship and a dramatic Trump U-turn in Davos: EU leaders gathered in Brussels for an emergency summit meant to pick up the pieces of the shattered transatlantic relationship and figure out what to do next. In this episode of EU Confiden ...  Show more

Donald Trump loomed large over the World Economic Forum’s annual get-together in the Swiss Alps — even before he touched down for his big speech. In this special episode from Davos, host Anne McElvoy talks to influential European and North American voices about President Trump’s ...  Show more

In the recent European elections, the far right won unprecedented gains. From the success of the AfD in Germany, to Le Pen’s National Rally in France, the elections saw nationalist and eurosceptic parties sweep up nearly a quarter of the seats in the European parliament. In the U ...  Show more

The man due to become Germany's next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has issued a stark warning to Europe that the United States has become indifferent to the continent's fate and it must become independent. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) had a record second-place result ...  Show more

C’en est fini d’Olaf Scholtz. Le chancelier allemand a été sèchement battu dans les urnes dimanche avec seulement 16,4 % des voix pour son parti, le SPD. Le prochain chancelier devrait donc être Friedrich Merz, chef de file des conservateurs de la CDU-CSU. Mais le fait remar ...  Show more

The final episode of Searching for Deutschland—a special crossover with the World in 30 Minutes—sees experts from Berlin, London, Paris and Warsaw break down the result of Germany’s federal election and discuss what comes next. Coalition negotiations are unde ...