Analysis · Elections · 01
AfD and local government: what changes when protest meets administration
Municipal office is where anti-establishment promises encounter budgets, procurement and statutory duties.
· 5 min read · Matteo Vermeer
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Analysis · Elections · 02
Can the CDU answer AfD voters without becoming the AfD?
Germany’s centre-right is trying to recover voters on migration and security while preserving a clear constitutional boundary.
· 5 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Analysis · Elections · 03
Sweden’s right lost office. Its policy coalition may outlast the government.
The 2026 result changed parliamentary control without erasing voter demand for tougher crime, migration and integration policy.
· 5 min read · Elin Söderberg
Analysis · Elections · 04
The Finns Party can now be judged by results, not protest
Cabinet responsibility gives Finland’s populist right influence—and makes budgets, labour policy and conduct measurable.
· 5 min read · Elin Söderberg
Analysis · Elections · 05
Why Norway’s Progress Party joined tax and migration into one argument
The party’s appeal combines a smaller-state economic case with demands for tighter migration control.
· 5 min read · Elin Söderberg
Analysis · Elections · 06
Dutch coalition arithmetic keeps rewriting the voters’ mandate
Proportional representation produces broad choice but can turn clear electoral signals into long, unstable negotiations.
· 5 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Analysis · Elections · 07
The National Rally’s economic programme faces a credibility test
A movement seeking executive power must reconcile purchasing-power promises, protectionism and France’s fiscal constraints.
· 5 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Analysis · Elections · 08
Does France’s two-round system still produce legitimate majorities?
Electoral alliances can block the largest first-round force while producing a fragmented National Assembly.
· 5 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Analysis · Elections · 09
What Vox’s regional record reveals about national ambition
Regional government offers evidence on budgets, culture policy and coalition reliability that campaign speeches cannot.
· 5 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Analysis · Elections · 010
Chega’s rise broke Portugal’s old party system. What comes next?
Rapid growth has given the populist right leverage without resolving questions about organisation and governing partners.
· 5 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Analysis · Elections · 011
Why Confederation’s appeal to young Poles is not only nationalist
Tax, housing and distrust of institutions sit beside migration and sovereignty in the party’s coalition of support.
· 5 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Analysis · Elections · 012
Czech coalition politics is moving beyond a simple left–right map
Sovereigntist, populist and conservative forces compete over migration, energy and relations with Brussels.
· 5 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Analysis · Elections · 013
Romania’s nationalist vote is also a crisis of institutional trust
Disputes over election administration and corruption have created space for parties challenging the post-accession consensus.
· 5 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Analysis · Elections · 014
What repeated elections cost Bulgarian democracy
Recurring ballots reveal fragmentation, low trust and the difficulty of turning anti-corruption mandates into stable government.
· 5 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Opinion · Elections · 015
Germany’s coalition test: budgets, borders and the limits of compromise
The Merz government’s durability depends on whether fiscal restraint and migration control can coexist with coalition arithmetic.
· 7 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Opinion · Elections · 016
Why AfD support in eastern Germany cannot be reduced to one grievance
Migration matters, but regional economics, trust and representation also shape Germany’s most consequential electoral divide.
· 7 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Opinion · Elections · 017
Marine Le Pen and 2027: the legal questions that decide the political ones
The National Rally’s route to the presidency depends on courts, candidacy rules and a succession plan—not polling alone.
· 7 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Opinion · Elections · 018
Austria’s anti-FPÖ coalition faces its delivery test
Excluding the election winner settled who governs. It did not settle the migration and trust questions that enlarged the FPÖ vote.
· 7 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Opinion · Elections · 019
Spain’s fragile majority and the price of parliamentary survival
Regional parties give Madrid a governing path while raising hard questions about budgets, amnesty and equal treatment.
· 7 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Opinion · Elections · 020
Europe’s right-of-centre map: parties, coalitions and the labels that confuse them
Conservative, national-conservative, populist and far-right movements overlap, but treating them as interchangeable obscures more than it reveals.
· 7 min read · Matteo Vermeer
News analysis · Elections · 021
Sweden's 2026 election is decided. Forming a government is not.
The final Riksdag count produced a 176–173 centre-left advantage. The harder arithmetic now sits inside the prospective governing bloc.
· 7 min read · Elin Söderberg
Analysis · Elections · 022
What the Sweden Democrats' 2026 result does — and does not — mean
A first decline after years of gains deserves close reading, not easy declarations that a political current has vanished.
· 6 min read · Elin Söderberg
Analysis · Elections · 023
AfD gains and Germany's firewall: what happens after winning votes
The Alternative for Germany can lead a result without finding a route into government. That gap is now the central fact of German politics.
· 7 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Analysis · Elections · 024
France's National Rally is preparing for power. The institutions still matter.
Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella command a large electorate, but candidacy rules, two-round voting and constitutional review shape the road to 2027.
· 7 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Analysis · Elections · 025
The Dutch populist cycle: PVV after its turn near power
Geert Wilders proved that electoral victory can transform coalition talks. It did not remove the structural limits of a one-leader party.
· 6 min read · Matteo Vermeer
Analysis · Elections · 026
Vox, the PP and the coalition question reshaping Spain
The decisive issue is not rhetoric alone, but whether regional cooperation becomes a durable national route to power.
· 7 min read · Matteo Vermeer
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