Right-wing populism

The Independent Greeks, the former junior coalition partner of ruling left-wing Syriza, will not contest the July national election, party president Panos Kammenos announced Sunday.

Europe's mainstream political parties took a hit in elections on May 26 but held off a strong surge by the populist right of Marine Le Pen, Matteo Salvini and Nigel Farage.

Europeans vote on Sunday in an election expected to further dent traditional pro-EU parties and bolster the nationalist fringe in the European Parliament, putting a potential brake on collective action in economic and foreign policy.

The support enjoyed by Poland's nationalist Law and Justice Party, PiS, cannot be explained by current theories of populism being applied to the rise of the right in Europe, a Polish sociologist and MEP candidate says.

Some days Adrian Lachata ponders how life would have turned out if he had never left Svidnik.

The 32-year-old engineer would not have graduated from the most prestigious technical faculty in the Czech Republic, where he has lived for the past 11 years since moving from the industrial town in Slovakia's northeast where he grew up.

If there's one thing that unites the people of the world today, it's anger at establishment politicians. Over the last decade, this anger has fundamentally reshaped global politics at both the national and international levels. Anger in the US led to the election of Donald Trump; anger in Ukraine led to the election of a professional comedian and sitcom star.

The suspension of the membership of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's party in the European People's Party constitutes a resounding message to the political forces which do not respect the fundamental principles of the European family.

This handout picture released by the Brazilian presidency shows US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (C) meeting with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (L) at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, on January 2, 2019. Photo by Marcos CORREA / Brazilian Presidency / AFP)

On that occasion, Dacic talked with Bolsonaro about bilateral relations between the two countries and their further improvement.

On the margins of the inauguration, Dacic had a series of meetings with senior world officials attending the ceremony, according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has used his inaugural speech to promise to build a "society without discrimination or division", reported BBC. 

The former army captain told Congress he wanted a "national pact" to free Brazil of corruption, crime and economic mismanagement.

In a swipe at the left, he vowed to free Brazil of "ideology".