Just over 220,000 migrants were detected trying to cross into Europe illegally in the first 11 months of 2024, according to Frontex data. That represents a decrease of about 40 per cent from 2023, and is several orders of size smaller than the numbers seen in 2015, when around 1 …

Trump’s victory was cheered by populists across Central Europe, but his return looks anything but good news for regional economies already faltering as they enter 2025. The economies of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia are among the most vulnerable in the EU to the repeated threats by incoming US president, …

Europe’s far-right and illiberal populists are convinced of being “on the right side of history”. But if history is anything to go by, a Trump win could hold a few bitter surprises. “Americans are so enamoured of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom,” …