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Christian Democrats triumph in Germany but the far-right grows in confidence
Germany’s election reveals a rising far-right, challenging its post-war consensus.



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If even Switzerland is re-examining its neutrality in light of Russian aggression, there’s no excuse for the rest of the fence-sitters
Russia’s full-scale assault on Ukraine was the kind of thing that should have been a clarifying, pick-a-side moment: a European democracy was invaded and terrorised by a revanchist autocracy for no good reason. Russia’s…
