Europe
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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.