#FAR-RIGHT

The government is due to be sworn in on Monday.

Germans were voting in a national election on Sunday that is expected to see Friedrich Merz's conservatives regain power and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) score its best ever result as Europe's ailing economic powerhouse lurches rightwards.

Around 250,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Munich to protest against right-wing extremism, as a survey showed that migration is German voters’ main concern ahead of this month’s general election.

The motion was rejected by a margin of 12 votes.

Germany's parliament faced the possibility of passing a law due to far-right support for the first time in post-war history, after last-minute talks to find a compromise to avert the vote to tighten immigration controls appeared to have failed.

A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor said on Thursday he would return his federal order of merit award to the German state in protest at a parliamentary vote in which support from the far-right was used for the first time to secure a majority.

A far-right MEP who is running in Poland’s presidential election has been expelled from a European Parliament meeting after disrupting a minute of silence for Holocaust victims.

A controversial MEP representing Poland’s far-right grouping was expelled from the party after he declared his intention to run in the upcoming presidential election despite the party already announcing its own candidate.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Saturday nominated co-leader Alice Weidel as its first chancellor candidate in the party's 11-year history, setting out its bid for power ahead of a snap election due in February.

Romanian law enforcement conducted raids across multiple cities in connection with “illegal financing” allegations tied to Călin Georgescu, a far-right candidate whose first-round presidential election victory was annulled by the Constitutional Court.

Romanians vote in a parliamentary election on Sunday in which the far right is expected to gain from uncertainty over whether the shock result in a presidential election will stand.

Populist and anti-establishment parties in Romania are hoping to profit from an apparent surge in support for the far-right ahead of this Sunday’s general election.

The Paris prosecutor has requested a five-year prison sentence and a five-year ban from public office for far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a trial where she and 24 others stand accused of embezzling European Union funds.

The head of Austria's far-right Freedom Party, which won this week's parliamentary election, urged other parties on Saturday to accept that he should lead the next government and warned them against forming a "coalition of losers".

The far-right Freedom Party’s historic victory in an Austrian parliamentary election on Sunday has left it isolated and partly at the mercy of a powerful critic: the president, who must oversee efforts towards forming a viable coalition government.

Even his most passionate supporters would agree that when it comes charisma, Herbert Kickl is hardly well endowed. But while the bespectacled 55-year-old may lack the glitz, he has shown, by guiding his far-right Freedom Party to triumph in Austria’s general election on Sunday, he has a winning touch.

Austrian voters handed a first-ever general election victory to the far-right Freedom Party on Sunday, vote projections showed, underlining rising support for hard-right parties in Europe fueled by concern over immigration levels.

The election in Brandenburg follows the AfD’s victory in Thuringia.

The anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) won a “historic” victory in elections in the eastern state of Thuringia, making it the first far-right party in Germany to triumph at the polls since the 1930s.

Exit polls indicate the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) took first place in Sunday’s local elections in the federal state of Thuringia and is narrowly chasing the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union in Saxony.