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What happens now? Did Macron’s snap election work? Is Le Pen finished? POLITICO walks you through the rubble.

Macron’s snap election saddles France with a messy hung parliament as the price for stopping the far right.

National Rally leadership is under fire for fielding candidates who have made racist comments or done favors for the Russian government.

The leader “underestimated how much the public were turned off by his personality,” one party official told POLITICO.

Hundreds of candidates from Macron’s camp and the left-wing alliance withdraw in an effort to keep the National Rally out.

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is in a strong position after the first round of voting, but the next 24 hours will be crucial as rivals plot to stop the far right.

The president must decide if his candidates should drop out and back the left to stop the far right winning power in France.

The U.S. president’s inner circle at first was merely startled by Macron’s gamble, but that initial reaction has curdled into puzzlement and dismay.

Everything now is just a euphemism for financial repression and austerity. That doesn’t stop politicians looking for magical alternatives.

A Q&A with Neil Kinnock, who inadvertently tanked Biden’s first presidential run and sees some similarities between the British left and the U.S. left.

Europe’s socialists are kicking themselves that Keir Starmer’s party is no longer around.

The French president is trying to whip up support for his battered centrists.

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Russia adjusted its intelligence strategy following the expulsion of its diplomats in 2023, Nancy Faeser said.

With her election to the European Parliament, the anti-fascist activist gained immunity from charges relating to an alleged attack on neo-Nazis.

The French president addressed voters at a press conference after calling a snap election in wake of humiliating defeat.

Controversial MEP will not be returning to Brussels after she was eliminated on 17th count in Dublin constituency.

On the center-left of British politics, current leader Keir Starmer wants to show voters Labour is ready for office again. Not everyone’s on board with his methods.

Ahead of the European election, striking data shows where Gen Z and millennials’ allegiances lie.

Though final result is difficult to predict, Irish MEPs Clare Daly and Mick Wallace face an uphill battle for re-election in latest poll.

A new State Department report, criticized as inconclusive, drew immediate fire from both progressive Democrats and Republicans.

At a time when many want more government aid to help them survive a changing world, the Socialists can’t gain ground.

The French president faces fresh test as outlook for nation’s finances dims, threatening to upend his EU project.

Gen Z influencers inspire right-wing leaders like France’s Jordan Bardella ahead of June’s EU election.