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How Zohran Mamdani's Progressive Victory Inspires European Left-Wing Movements Against Rising Right-Wing Forces
Nov 06, 2025 02:44 am CST
New York City's newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, has energized left-wing political parties across Europe with his successful campaign focused on rent controls and taxing the wealthy. European progressive parties from Britain to Germany are drawing inspiration from his unapologetically radical agenda, seeing it as a blueprint to counter right-wing momentum in their own countries by focusing on economic inequality and cost-of-living concerns rather than diluting their core principles.
France's Richest Man Slams Proposed Weath Tax As 'Assault On French Economy'
Sep 21, 2025 06:53 pm CST
Bernard Arnault, the boss of luxury goods group LVMH and France's richest man, has attacked a proposed 2% tax on billionaires as an assault on France's economy and denounced the plan's architect as a far-left ideologue.