Derek Scally

Leaked security plan shows original emergency entrance used by driver was to be 4m wide and blocked at all times by a large vehicle and a steel chain

Queen's University Belfast academic Richard Schoch says the American composer's works are high art that explore the human condition with precision, and remain fresh for each new generation

Freedom Party led by Herbert Kickl set to be senior coalition partner after poll-topping election win

Reversal of position by Austria’s president sets stage for nationalist, Eurosceptic Freedom Party led by Herbert Kickl to be senior coalition partner

Herbert Kickl says he is ready for talks with centre-right People’s Party, 100 days after his Freedom Party topped polls in election

Billionaire made comments in live-streamed conversation with Alternative for Germany's co-leader Alice Weidel on X

For long-time Berlin watchers, the most likely electoral outcome is a return to the Merkel era with another CDU-SPD grand coalition

Liberal democratic leaders out or embattled in office; the right on the rise ... Trump's second coming has echoes of a century ago and Yeats's warning that ‘the centre cannot hold'

In Austria, Sweden and Finland, conservative parties are making Faustian pacts with their more extreme opponents, with possible far-reaching consequences

Investigators into Catholic clerical sex abuse warn of ‘dark field’ beyond cases examined