Conflict Zone: Confronting the Powerful

”We are going a political crisis and we will have to reinvent ourselves after the elections," Corinne Narassiguin, Spokesperson of the French Socialist Party tells Michel Friedman on Conflict Zone.

As Russia and the West trade bitter accusations over the American air raid in Syria, DW’s Conflict Zone is in Moscow to speak to leading Russian politician Konstantin Kosachev, who calls the US missile strike against a Syrian air base “a very strong violations of international law.”

"We cannot talk about black money as if it is only coming out of real estate transactions. It’s coming out of politics, too," Indian MP Shashi Tharoor acknowledges on this week's Conflict Zone with Tim Sebastian.

Brexit, a diplomatic row with Turkey, growing nationalism: Is the EU about to fall apart, 60 years after the anniversary of the Treaty of Rome? Michel Friedman meets EU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager.

Zimbabwean politician Joice Mujuru served as Robert Mugabe’s Vice-President for a decade. Now she founded her own party. But why should people vote for someone who was a complicit in a regime that killed thousands?

The Dutch elections are less than a week away. In an interview, Dutch MP Han ten Broeke discusses whether he thinks his government will be swept away by the populism that has stunned the Western world over the last year.

With Schulz and Merkel neck-and-neck in the polls, we talk to senior CDU MP and German deputy finance minister Jens Spahn. Does he think Merkel can win a fourth term in what she expects to be her toughest election yet?

Poland's ultra-conservative Law and Justice Party has come under fire for trying to take power from the country's highest court and cracking down on media freedom. DW talks to Polish Finance Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

Europe's law enforcement agency Europol is in the spotlight after repeated terrorist attacks in the EU. Director Rob Wainwright says lessons have been learned. But is Europe safer as a result?

“The Washington elite ... have lost touch with an awful lot of America,” David Petraeus told DW’s Tim Sebastian on this week’s Conflict Zone.