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When Brazil’s then-president Dilma Rousseff was impeached in August 2016 on corruption charges, an end to the decade-plus rule of the left in the country, under her Workers’ Party, appeared imminent. Rousseff was in her second term, and her mentor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, had served two terms as president before her. But a […]
Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters BERLIN (Reuters) – France must accelerate reforms and changes to tackle growing social and economic problems that are fuelling nationalism, populism and the rise of Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front, a top German official said on Tuesday. European Affairs Minister Michael Roth told German broadcaster SWR2 that he viewed […]
Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Earlier this week, Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s ruling People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) won the most seats in parliament for the third time in a row, dealing a blow to far-right populist leader Geert Wilders. It was the first of three European elections in 2017 that markets have fixated on in […]
Versailles (France) (AFP) – The heads of continental Europe’s biggest economies meet in the gilded splendor of the Palace of Versailles on Monday, seeking ways of strengthening an EU facing Britain’s exit and mounting populism. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande — whose two countries are often described as the European Union’s […]
The theme of President Donald Trump’s inaugural address was the return of power to “the people”—the forgotten Americans, the victims of “American carnage.” It harkened back to his campaign, when Trump presented himself as a populist who eschewed traditional conservative-liberal orthodoxies. But despite the speech’s theme of transferring power from the cosmopolitan rich to the […]
