JOURNALIST The Labour Party / Pål Laukli / Flickr [CC BY-ND 2.0] When everything becomes political, politics also loses its meaning. “Here, Jonas Gahr Støre defies the boycott of his own press chief, Bjørn Dæhli“, could tell us the public

FROM THE PAPER EDITION With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we are faced with the return of many aspects of the Cold War. Vladimir Putin during the celebration of the victory over Nazi Germany in Moscow on May 9, 2022.Photo: Kremlin.ru

CULTURE To mark the 50th anniversary of Tolkien’s death, the British author is being honoured with a separate exhibition at Rome’s venerable Galleria Nazionale d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea. The show was commissioned by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.Photo: Eva-Kristin Urestad Pedersen

Christian Tybring-Gjedde believes that new political winds are blowing across Europe, and that they are blowing to the right.Photo: Ellen Reiss Christian Tybring-Gjedde believes that Geert Wilders represents a broader political trend. He finds it positive that more and more

There is great tension over whether Marine Le Pen and the National Assembly (RN) will be able to secure a clear majority in the second round of France’s legislative elections on Sunday.Photo: Pixabay Political commentators are shuddering, but financial markets

DEBATE DEBATE: After the rise of populism in Europe, the horseshoe theory is well suited to describe that non-revolutionary far-left and far-right parties are after all quite similar. The Progress Party has historically distinguished itself from right-wing populist parties in

Will Mette Frederiksen become the new head of NATO? No one knows. But most Danish commentators probably think she is now signalling, in a cryptic way, that she wants to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as NATO secretary general. Rumours that a

Reidar Digranes of the Centre Party will be Bergen’s city councillor for business, culture and sport. He sees no major dividing line between his own party and the Conservative Party in local politics.Photo: Mikael Tjemland / Bergen Sp. Bergen’s new

Russia was excluded from the group of the world’s leading industrialized countries after its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014. The G7 will hold a summit in Quebec, Canada, on Friday and Saturday, and Trump believes Russia should also

As the US elections approach in November, concerns about a repeat of the fashion when Joe Biden was expected to be installed as the 46th US president are bubbling to the surface. Many fear the election result could lead to