Politics

German politics is now a dysfunctional mess and it’s all Olaf Scholz’s fault. With Trump looming, the timing couldn’t be worse

Georgia’s disputed election has been hailed as a victory for Vladimir Putin, but murals in the capital paint a different picture

Feargal has shown what can be achieved when someone with a national voice shouts loud. We need someone to do the same in the fight against litter

Badenoch, for all her anti-woke diatribes, is the wrong kind of Tory rightist. She will lead them defeat, and quite possibly eclipse by Reform

Germany is issuing licences to groups who will report (what they think is) illegal and detrimental content on social media platforms

The leader of Sweden's far right is mired in scandal after a member of a notorious motorcycle gang attended his wedding

Farmers are a short-term risk, but Labour’s biggest task is getting impatient Britain to buy into the power of long-term investment

The president-elect wants to drag the world back to the 1930s with his trade wars

As locals, we know that Trump doesn’t think too highly of Brussels

There is a central explanation for Trump’s victory – and it is not a comfortable one

Europeans watch Friends and eat burgers and think we understand America. Then elections like this make us realise we really don’t

As Ukraine despairs and Europe’s populists cheer Trump’s win, Keir Starmer faces up to the need to rejoin the single market

The new leader of the opposition had her first Commons joust with the PM today and scored a resounding diplomatic victory. Only trouble – it was against Britain

The result of the US election contains one clear message for Britain – and for Starmer

The news from across the Atlantic is brutal. But all is not quite lost

Trump’s return to power has been helped by the complete failure of the American left

The night started with nauseous optimism. Then came vodka and gloom

Trump is now ominously close to victory as the Harris surge proved a fantasy

The EU’s migrant return policy worked for years, and access to a fingerprint database is a very distant second-best

We’re on newsstands and through subscribers’ doors a day later than usual because of the US election

The hard right has achieved political power across Europe. British politics now faces exactly the same risk

Historians will analyse this election, and the phenomenon of Trump, for the rest of time

Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni has held her extreme political instincts in check – so far. If Trump wins, will that change?

Justin Webb allowed Matt Schlapp to toss out a series of obvious untruths involving Elon Musk, Hillary Clinton and the January 6 riots

Concerns over youth mobility and Northern Ireland are growing in Brussels

As a “stolen” election damages their country’s European dream, Georgians fear their divide with the west is becoming irreversible

The new Tory leader has been handed a shaky mandate by a depleted party rooted in deep denial

One Leaver says she’s still glad she voted for it... but there’s a good reason for that

There is no economic justification for all farmers passing their estates on to their children tax-free

A journey through North and South Carolina reveals the widening gap between the current Trumpian GOP and the party it used to be