Trump Declares War - On His Allies!

Jan 11, 2025 | President-elect Donald Trump has suggested he would be willing to use force to occupy Greenland and the Panama Canal to protect US strategic interests - and that Canada should be annexed by the United States. Can he be serious? Adrian Goldberg is joined by former senior UK diplomat Alex Hall Hall.

If they had put Trump in prison where he belongs, the world wouldn’t be troubled by this objectionable felon now. He’d be all locked up and kept quiet. In short, FT and FA! – © Mark Alexander

Europe's March to the Far-right

Jun 11, 2024 | In the EU elections, voters in France, Germany and Italy have shown an increasing appetite for populist anti-immigrant parties. The French president Emmanuelle Macron has reacted by calling a snap parliamentary election after his party was beaten into second place in the EU poll by Marine le Pen’s National Rally.

In Germany, the Social Democrats, the party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz were pushed into third place by the nationalist AfD. The result still leaves the EU parliament dominated by traditional centre right and centre left parties but for how long will that remain the case? And what do these results tells us more broadly about the appeal of the far right in Europe.

Adrian Goldberg talks to Seema Syeda is a Marseille-based researcher working on European politics for UK-based campaign group Another Europe Is Possible; and Linda Kalcher, the Executive Director of a pan-European think tank Strategic Perspectives who is based in Belgium.