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The 2025 German Election: First Impressions and Implications

Moritz Warnke
Version française ci-dessous The 2025 German federal election, held some eight months...
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Parliament building Alþing, Althing Reykjavik.
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Scratching the Seven-Year Itch: Iceland votes to change government

Luke Field
Note: This article uses Icelandic naming conventions. Most persons referenced do not...
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Agnes Stuber

“We need to give people hope”

Hanna Gedin, Duroyan Fertl
European UnionScandinavia
An interview with Hanna Gedin from the Swedish Left Party Vänsterpartiet on the priorities and challenges of...
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SPOE supporters celebrate at party headquarters in Madrid on election night, 23 July 2023.
SPOE supporters celebrate at party headquarters in Madrid on election night, 23 July 2023.IMAGO / ZUMA Wire

What Can the Left Learn from the Spanish Elections?

Laura Chazel
European Union
The Left recently caused quite a surprise in Spain. On 23 July 2023, early elections were held to...
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Conservative party leader Erna Solberg after the results of the elections of September 11 were announced.
Conservative party leader Erna Solberg after the results of the elections of September 11 were announced.Hans Kristian Thorbjørnsen (Creative Commons)

In Norway local elections herald a shift to the right

Ingrid Wergeland
ScandinaviaElections and parties
For the first time in a century, Norway’s Labour Party failed to top the country’s local and...
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Finland s President Sauli Niinisto meets with the new government led by Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, Helsinki, June 20, 2023
Finland s President Sauli Niinisto meets with the new government led by Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, Helsinki, June 20, 2023IMAGO / Xinhua

Finland’s Cabinet of Horrors

Pinja Vuorinen
ScandinaviaElections and parties
The Finnish parliamentary elections were held on April 2, but it has taken almost three months for a new government to...
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Franziska Giffey
Franziska GiffeySPD Schleswig-Holstein

Berlin’s Repeat Elections and the Social Democrats’ Dilemma

Andreas Thomsen
Elections and parties
Voting on 12 February will determine whether the city continues to shift away from...
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Ballots for the general elections at a polling station in Malmo, Sweden September 11, 2022. MALMO SWEDEN x50090x *** Bal
Ballots for the general elections at a polling station in Malmo, Sweden September 11, 2022. MALMO SWEDEN x50090x *** BalCopyright: Johanx Nilsson / IMAGO

Sweden’s new government – a dystopian nightmare

Petter Nilsson
Scandinavia
The political results of the Swedish election are in, and they bear all the hallmarks of a bad...
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Denmark 2022: A landslide election

Reinout Bosch
Scandinavia
The Danish election of 1 November 2022 was truly historic: consolidated parties have fallen from grace, new ones...
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Denmark to hold early elections as Social Democrats move right

Duroyan Fertl
Scandinavia
On November 1, Denmark will vote, seven months ahead of schedule. Polls show left and...
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