
FAR-RIGHT parties achieved major gains in the European Parliament elections last week.
Results announced on Sunday showed a clear shift to the far right and in France prompted French President Emmanuel Macron to call a snap parliamentary election.
The far-right Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni more than doubled her party’s seats in the assembly. And despite being hounded by a scandal involving candidates, the neonazi Alternative for Germany (AfD) still rallied enough seats to sweep past the slumping Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE

ROGER McKENZIE argues that the BRI represents a choice between treating humans as commodities or as equals — an essential project when, aside from China’s efforts, hundreds of millions worldwide are trapped in poverty

The colonial mindset behind the governance of the UN is the reason for its inertia when it comes to conflict resolution, argues ROGER McKENZIE – but can China’s Global Governance Initiative point in a new direction of global equality?