No, Parisian voters are not “vomitatious”, as the pathetic Henri Guaino proclaimed Monday after losing his seat in the National Assembly.Staying home from the polls, which we have been told for 30 years benefits the National Front, cannot now be used to explain the surge of La Ré

If all else fails, try the previously unthinkable.

Last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a heavily orchestrated “Belt and Road” forum in Beijing.The two-day event attracted 29 heads of state, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and 1,200 delegates from over 100 countries.Xi called China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Despite the apparent tranquility of this year’s spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, there are reasons to be concerned about the global economy.The United Kingdom’s impending “hard” Brexit from the European Union and US President Donald Trump’s anti-

Today, it appears that every single election in Europe can be reduced to one central question: “Is it a win or a loss for populism?”Until the Netherlands’ election in March, a populist wave — or, as Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party, put it, a “tsunami”

Last month, Emmanuel Macron pulled the proverbial rabbit from the electoral hat.Against the odds, the independent centrist won the French presidency by a decisive margin, beating the far-right populist Marine Le Pen — and vanquishing the old guard of the French establishment alon

Shortly after UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to call an unexpected “Brexit election”, I wrote that pro-Europeans in Britain might yet snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.But the timescale I had in mind was five years, not five weeks.How long May will survive as prime

Fifty years after the Six-Day War, which marked the beginning of Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, the Middle East remains a region in seemingly perpetual crisis.So it is no surprise that, when addressing the region, politicians, diplomats, and the donor an

The United Kingdom’s just-completed election was supposed to provide — as the Conservative Party’s campaign slogan put it — a “strong and stable” government.It ended up doing the opposite, producing a hung parliament and the likelihood of another general election later in the yea