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The poor format with two bickering leaders did little to win over younger voters

The PM claimed Labour would put up taxes by £2,000 per family – and now he looks like a liar

As parties have chosen lead candidates with little or no EU-level experience, the country’s clout in the European Parliament could be reduced

Some French voters have forgotten what the EU is really for

Could Labour take the prime minister's seat?

Voters want stability, rather than novelty, from the next government

A Labour government will have to learn to allow rising demand and investment to happen

The new government could use advisory panels made up of ordinary Britons to break the political deadlock on big issues

In Mallorca, native islanders are turning against tourists

A pro-Brexit, self-promoting opportunist, he did huge damage to Britain in a career marked by betrayals and duplicity

A Tory defeat looks certain – but how big Labour’s majority is will shape their ambitions and define politics for the next five years

The D-day landings didn’t just take soldiers to occupied Europe – they also delivered the trains and rail workers who helped to secure victory

Cameron and Osborne were not centrists; their brutal austerity, destruction of local government and the harm they did to young people were the result of hard right policies

This week’s European elections could leave Italy’s right wing PM as the continent’s biggest power-broker

After 14 years of the Tories, the spending gap per student between the state and private schooling system has more than doubled

I will miss the London Underground’s lack of internet

For most Italians, Europe is a distant, scary and uninteresting concept

A leadership contest between the two is emerging. Each wants to become the great figurehead of the nationalist right in Europe

The war in Ukraine is pushing Estonians to become more engaged with the European elections

The country consistently records the lowest voter turnout during European elections, but this year there’s hope for improvement

While the European Parliament looks set to take a turn towards the right, it doesn’t necessarily follow that the AfD will gain influence

The Netherlands serves as a warning of what happens when mainstream parties appease the far right rather than confronting them

Sinn Féin’s target demographic now blames the party for cheerleading Ireland’s open-border mentality, and its popularity has plummeted

Making sense of suicide is complex, which is why the classicist Edith Hall turns to ancient Greece to do so

The debate over the nation’s economic health has headed off into fantasy land. It needs to come back to reality

They love him — but what happens if he destroys the Tory party?

The consequences of Farage's return will be even worse for Britain

Print off your very own TNE leadership debate bingo card and join in the fun!

He’s been convicted by a jury of 34 felony charges and faces jail time. Why do so many Americans want him back in power?

Farage wouldn’t have been happy surrendering his seat on the Question Time leaders’ special to Richard Tice

When the deadline for candidate selection has finally passed, the mud-slinging will really begin