Politics

Germany’s Democratic Paradox - If Voters Choose the "Wrong" Party, Should the Party Be Banned?

Germany's September elections have delivered an uncomfortable message to Berlin.

By EuroAsia.News · 29 September 2026 · 08:51 · 4 min read

• Germany
• Elections
• AfD
• Politics
• EU

Washington Talks, Berlin Lectures: A Week That Exposed a New Diplomatic Divide

A remarkable week of diplomacy has revealed an increasingly visible divide in how the world’s major powers are dealing with one another.

By EuroAsia.News · 28 September 2026 · 18:19 · 3 min read

Hungary’s Prime Minister Faces the Danube Phone Case - Prosecutors Move to Lift Péter Magyar’s Immunity

Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar is again facing the consequences of one of the most unusual episodes of his political rise: a late-night Budapest nightclub confrontation in which he took a man’s mobile phone and later through it into the Danube.

By EuroAsia.News · 24 September 2026 · 08:20 · 3 min read

• Hungary
• Magyar
• Prime Minister
• Prosecutor

Germany Votes Against Merz — He Calls It a ‘Disaster’ but Refuses to Go.

Germany woke on Monday to a political landscape that looks very different from the one Chancellor Friedrich Merz promised to create. In Sunday’s state elections, his Christian Democratic Union suffered another historic rejection by voters.

By EuroAsia.News · 21 September 2026 · 11:12 · 3 min read

• Germany
• Elections
• Merz
• AfD
• Politics
• EU

CDU at 7% in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern — How Did Germany’s Largest Centre-Right Party Fall This Far?

Friedrich Merz’s CDU is facing a result that would have been almost unimaginable only a few years ago: around 6–7% of the vote.

By EuroAsia.News · 18 September 2026 · 19:02 · 3 min read

• Germany
• Election
• Merz

Germany Votes Sunday. Does Merz Survive Monday?

Germany votes on Sunday in two regional elections that have suddenly become something much larger than contests over Berlin housing or the government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. They have become a test for Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

By EuroAsia.News · 18 September 2026 · 00:00 · 2 min read

• Germany
• Merz
• Elections

Meloni Challenges Draghi - Two Competing Visions for Europe’s Future

Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni has opened a fundamental argument about the future shape of the European Union — and placed herself directly against Mario Draghi.

By EuroAsia.News · 13 September 2026 · 00:00 · 2 min read

• EU
• Meloni
• Italy

Is Hungary Under EU Pressure to Destroy Its Russian Relations?

Ten diplomats expelled, Russian relations deteriorating and a curious new “energy cooperation” with Latvia — Budapest’s foreign-policy pivot is becoming increasingly difficult to dismiss as symbolism. But what does Hungary actually gain if political alignment with Brussels comes at the price of its established relationship with Moscow?

By EuroAsia.News · 11 September 2026 · 12:18 · 3 min read

• Hungary
• EU
• Gas
• Russia