Latest editorial
EUROZONE leaders put their tenuous commitment to democracy on open display yesterday in their reaction to the Portuguese electorate’s turn to the left.
Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho’s Social Democratic Party and its People’s Party (CDS-PP) allies came unstuck in the October 4 elections.
Their partnership remains the largest formation in the 230-member parliament, with 102 seats, but this represents a significant slide since 2011.
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
The desperate French president keeps running up the same political cul-de-sac. DENNIS BROE offers an explanation
