Europe
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Meloni fixed Italy’s deficit. But real wages are still 6.1% below 2021.
Giorgia Meloni’s cabinet passed 1,413 consecutive days in office on 4 September 2026. That figure overtook the 1,412 days of Silvio Berlusconi’s second government. No single administration in the history of the Italian Republic has lasted longer.
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AfD Wins Saxony-Anhalt With 44 Percent. Three Seats Now Decide Who Governs
The far right took 39 of 83 seats in Magdeburg. It cannot govern alone. Nobody else can govern easily either. We walk through the seat arithmetic, the constitutional clock, and the economic bill.
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Two Chief Executives Vanished. Poland’s Biggest Crypto Exchange Vanished With Them
Zondacrypto claimed 1.3 million customers and 4,500 bitcoin. The public ledger showed 0.086. We trace how a Katowice startup became a Polish political crisis.
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From $1 Billion to $55 Billion: Inside Ukraine’s Defense Industry Transformation
Four years of war turned a hollowed-out Soviet legacy sector into Europe’s most productive arms industry. The factories now outrun the money that pays for them.
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The Flying BMP’s Mykhailo Drapatyi Takes Command. How will he shape the war?
Ukraine changed its top soldier last week. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi commander-in-chief on 22 July. He removed General Oleksandr Syrskyi, the architect of Kyiv’s 2022 defense.
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IG Farben’s Long Fall: How Europe’s Biggest Company Outlived Its Own Verdict
IG Farben made all of Germany’s synthetic rubber and 84 percent of its explosives. It built a factory at Auschwitz where roughly 25,000 people died. A tribunal convicted thirteen of its directors in 1948. Every one of them walked free by 1951.
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Austria on the Edge: What a Kickl Government Would Mean for the Nation, Its Economy, and Europe
Austria’s governing coalition of conservatives, social democrats, and liberals commands just 48 percent of parliament — a single defection away from collapse. Meanwhile, the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) polls at 38 percent, its highest level in modern history. The question Austria faces is no longer whether Herbert Kickl reaches the chancellery, but when — and what that moment will cost.
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The AfD at the Gate: What Happens to Germany’s Economy If the Firewall Falls?
Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland leads national polls for the first time ever, holds 41% in Saxony-Anhalt, and is poised to govern a German state in September 2026. This is not a warning shot. This is the shot. Here is what it means for every trader, investor, business owner, and worker who depends on Europe’s largest economy.
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How the Rassemblement National Could Reshape a Nation and Unsettle a Continent
With Jordan Bardella commanding 35–37% in first-round polls, an historically weakened centre, and Marine Le Pen’s legal fate still unresolved, France’s 2027 presidential election presents a genuine probability — not merely a fear — that the far right will occupy the Élysée Palace for the first time in the Fifth Republic’s history.