Notes

Hamstrung and unpopular in Paris and Berlin. France looks set to pull a new government together—but it’s a minority cabinet that’ll have to rely on the populist-right party National Rally to stay in operation. Germany’s chancellor is his country’s most unpopular leader in more than 30 years, as members of his government bicker with one another in the media over why they can’t get things done. And Bulgaria’s governments keep collapsing. What’s the problem? Today, Matthias Matthijs explores an emerging set of overlapping political crises in Europe—and how the rise of so many new parties generally is ultimately supporting the rise of the nationalist right specifically.

—Michael Bluhm