Viktor Orbán has hailed the far-right Alternative for Germany as “the future” of Europe’s largest nation as he hosted the party’s co-leader Alice Weidel less than two weeks before federal elections.

While the country was rapidly heading for an unprecedented political, economic and social crisis, then President Gotabaya ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's nationalist prime minister on Wednesday hosted a German far-right party's candidate for ...

The longtime patriarch of the French far right, Jean-Marie Le Pen, died last month. Yet while the cadaver lies in the ground, ...

France’s Parti Socialiste abstained in a confidence vote this week, allowing Emmanuel Macron’s allies to push through an ...

France’s prime minister has called for a national debate on “what it means to be French” as the country mulls over whether to ...

Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Friday called for a national debate on immigration and what it means to be French, days ...

The French parliament on Thursday finally adopted the state's 2025 budget following a tumultuous months-long process that saw ...

Algerian Parliament Speaker Ibrahim Boughali called Thursday for passing a law criminalizing French colonialism amid growing tensions between Algeria and France. Boughali, Speaker of the National ...

The Fifth Republic, the brainchild of Charles de Gaulle, was crafted in 1958 to drag France out of crisis. For decades, it worked like clockwork—a system centered around a strong presidency that could ...

Bayrou reiterated his stance in the French parliament, or National Assembly, on Tuesday, claiming that the scale of illegal immigration in Mayotte, where Comoros migrants account for an estimated ...

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