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Brussels will be watching whether Musk breaks EU law in far-right livestream

Up to 150 experts in Brussels and Seville will be checking whether Musk’s livestream interview boosts the German far right.

January 9, 2025 4:27 am CET

Musk’s date with Germany’s far-right chief: 5 things to watch

Elon Musk’s live chat with Alice Weidel of the AfD on X comes as Germany’s national election looms.

January 9, 2025 4:00 am CET
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Trump’s chaos agents descend on Europe — and squabble

There’s a battle among the president-elect’s loyalists over who among Europe’s right-wing populists should be trusted as allies.

January 9, 2025 4:00 am CET

Blinken: Greenland invasion is ‘not going to happen’

France warned Wednesday that Europeans would not let the U.S. invade Greenland.

January 8, 2025 6:25 pm CET

Steve Bannon: Musk’s money will help us make Europe a populist haven

“There’s not a centrist left-wing government in Europe that will be able to withstand that onslaught,” the right-wing podcaster says.

January 8, 2025 3:00 pm CET

PMQs: Starmer beats Badenoch as she tries the Musk playbook

The prime minister dismissed Tory attacks over child protection as politically opportunistic.

January 8, 2025 2:22 pm CET

French far right’s Zemmour scores surprise invite to Trump inauguration

The pundit-turned-politician could be a potential ally for the president-elect and Elon Musk as the tech billionaire wades deeper into European politics.

January 8, 2025 11:46 am CET

Elon Musk ‘saved humanity,’ says starry-eyed UK Tory

Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith praises the X owner — as the Tories pray he won’t fund Nigel Farage.

January 8, 2025 11:00 am CET

13 times Elon Musk meddled in politics

The X owner and Donald Trump pick will never, ever stop posting — governments be damned.

January 8, 2025 4:00 am CET

Greenland, oil and ‘all hell’ in the Middle East: 6 takeaways from Trump’s press conference

From a new era of American imperialism to an enduring bitterness toward a criminal justice system he maintains unfairly targeted him, here are our top takeaways.

January 7, 2025 9:22 pm CET

Trump shrugs off ‘smart’ Elon Musk’s European meddling

US president-elect says DOGE pick “doing a very good job” amid beef with numerous foreign governments.

January 7, 2025 6:54 pm CET

Zuck goes full Musk, dumps Facebook fact-checking program

Meta will replace it with so-called community notes like on the X platform. The content moderation changes won’t be rolled out in the EU for now.

January 7, 2025 2:30 pm CET
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Nigel Farage to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration

Reform UK leader is a longstanding ally of the incoming US president.

January 7, 2025 12:43 pm CET

Farage to Musk: We can still be friends

Nigel Farage wants to kiss and make up with Elon Musk — despite his backing for far-right agitator Tommy Robinson.

January 7, 2025 11:19 am CET

Pressure mounts on EU to use legal weapons against Musk’s interference

European Commission says it will study whether X gives unfair boost to far right in German election.

January 7, 2025 4:20 am CET

Musk ‘ready’ to provide Meloni with Starlink secure comms

News of the talks comes shortly after the Italian PM visited President-elect Donald Trump in Florida.

January 6, 2025 4:01 pm CET

Macron says Musk is backing a ‘new international reactionary movement’

The French president also said his country would remain a strong U.S. ally.

January 6, 2025 3:02 pm CET

Zelenskyy reaches out to Trump’s MAGA base in a podcast 

We listened to three hours of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Lex Fridman so you don’t have to.

January 6, 2025 3:02 pm CET

UK’s Starmer slams Musk’s ‘lies’ on grooming gangs

British prime minister hits back after days of criticism from the X owner and Trump ally.

January 6, 2025 11:42 am CET

Elon Musk’s European political meddling is ‘worrying,’ says Norway’s PM

European backlash grows against billionaire ally of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

January 6, 2025 11:36 am CET

Musk says UK’s Starmer should be in prison

Trump ally keeps up his feud with Britain’s center-left government — and asks followers if America should ‘liberate’ Britain.

January 6, 2025 11:18 am CET

Seeon: Wie die CSU Merz vor sich hertreibt

Ein Ort der Ruhe und Einkehr ist das Kloster Seeon. Doch von der CSU erwartet man weder das eine noch das andere, wenn sie dort zu ihrer …

January 6, 2025 5:50 am CET

11 deadly trip wires for Keir Starmer as UK politics roars back

MPs are returning to parliament afresh in 2025. But numerous dangers lurk for the British government.

January 6, 2025 4:01 am CET

Musk savages Farage, calls for new Reform UK leader

In his latest intervention into British politics, the tech billionaire said Farage “doesn’t have what it takes” and discussed potential successors.

January 5, 2025 6:09 pm CET
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