You’re reading an excerpt from the WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. For years, we’ve talked about a seemingly inexorable trend: Little by little, Europe’s far right was gaining ground

President Emmanuel Macron of France, battered by a crushing defeat to the extreme right in European elections, dissolved the lower house of Parliament on Sunday and called for legislative elections beginning on June 30. His decision, announced in a television broadcast to the nation, was a measure of the devastating nature of the European Parliament

BRUSSELS — The European Union may be tilting to the political right, with the first forecasts in the European Parliament elections showing voters punishing ruling centrists and boosting parties that have made populist economic appeals and taken hard-right positions on immigration. In Germany, while the center right was comfortably leading in exit polls, there was

Six candidates, including the speaker of Parliament, have been approved to run in the Iranian election this month to succeed President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash last month. The vote comes at a moment when the country faces acute domestic and international challenges, state media said on Sunday. The speaker of Parliament,