Is the West built ‘over the centuries with genius and sacrifice’ really lost?
Last week, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared the West was over. “What we once called the normative West no longer exists in this form,” he explained.
Germany isn’t really going to rearm
Europe’s push to rearm has run into a series of snags.
US won’t put up with them: International courts have no weight and no meaning
Last month, Nuremberg, a film about the Nazi war crime trials, was released to critical acclaim.
Europe’s peace plan oozes with reliance on the US
If you’ve been on X over the past few days, and your algorithm is as politics-filled as mine, you may have seen an old video being passed around.
Brussels must not let the ‘deeply, deeply corrupt’ Ukraine join the EU
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has had a brutal few weeks.
European complaints on Trump bombing boats are public but unserious
Europe is very upset about President Donald Trump’s decision to start blowing up drug boats in the Caribbean. Very upset.
Meloni moves to restrict power of activist judiciary
The government of Italy’s Giorgia Meloni is now the third-longest in the history of the post-war Italian republic.
How the new Visegrad Group can surpass the old
In an interview with Politico Europe, Balázs Orbán, political director for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, revealed that Budapest would seek to reinvigorate the…
Globalism for students? In Brussels maybe, but not in Muslim Cairo or lawless Tripoli
Sports watchers of all stripes have encountered games where it seems a team just wants to lose.
Trump tells the Dutch to go seize that tricky Chinese chip maker, and they do
With the plethora of news happening across the West – and indeed, across the world – you may have missed a seemingly small story out of the Netherlands this past week.
Forget NATO: The Baltics should stand with Warsaw in a four-part defence pact
There has been plenty of scaremongering over Russia’s activities in the past ten years.
Fire von der Leyen: ‘Blistering’ EP resolutions coming at her
October is right around the corner. In Tallinn, the snow is getting impatient, ready to fall. In Vienna, the sturm wine has arrived and is being eagerly poured.
The EU sanctions on Russia have had no effect on Putin’s economy
Eighteen! That’s the number of sanction packages which have been passed on Russia by the European Union since the expansion of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022.
Incompetent technocracy: The EU miscalculated on Google
The European Commission has not had the best year. It started off with the man they all hoped would go away, Donald Trump, returning to the American presidency.
Looming budget crises means the Right needs more than just immigration policy
It is far from ground-breaking to say that the populist Right is surging across the West.
Ignoring the populist-right vote creates chaos in parliaments
Chaos! That seems to be the name of the game when it comes to French politics the past few years.
‘Coalition of the Unwilling’: Unable to will any action without participation of US
The White House meetings on August 18 between President Donald Trump and eight European leaders were extraordinary for a variety of reasons.
Yes, borders can be changed by force
President Donald Trump’s planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin has the Ukrainian government on high alert.
Governments give weak gestures on migrants, people reply with rage
This week, France’s government punished a Moroccan migrant.
US flattens EU: Brussels is too weak to be a pole in a multipolar world
The trade deal on July 27 between America and the European Union was disastrous for Europe. The Financial Times described it as “the EU to Trump’s steamroller.
Is Zelensky worried about what corruption investigators could find?
Ukraine’s parliament sent jitters through Brussels this week with the passage of a bill which would strip independence from two anti-corruption bodies – the National Anti-corruption…
Europe still has the power of… what, exactly?
President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course earlier this month when he decided to send Patriot missiles, along with other possibly offensive weaponry, to Ukraine, provided…
EU smears US with ‘isolationism’ but it forces Europe to do more
Ever since Donald Trump arrived on the world stage, liberal internationalists have thrown one particular insult his way: “Isolationist!
Want to exercise freedom of speech? Not when European lawfare cuts your throat
It’s no secret that Europe has a serious problem with free speech.
Whether hard power or soft power, Europe is no longer there
This week marks the latest NATO summit.
Austrian politicians are threatening gun controls after school shooting
On June 10, Austria suffered one of the deadliest school shootings in its history when a man killed 10 people and injured 11 more at his former high school before turning…
Interrogation, arrest, prosecution: Free speech does not exist in Europe
On June 5 in Brussels, a duo were arrested for disturbing the peace. The pair, a man and a woman, were not assaulting anyone, nor were they threatening anyone.
European retirement ages are forced up after decades of political incompetence
On May 22, Denmark’s parliament passed a law raising the retirement age from its current 67 to 70.
Austrian lawfare tried to wreck him, but honest Kurz gets up again
The Austrian People’s Party is the Western hemisphere’s longest-serving government party, having been in the government as a senior or junior coalition partner continuously…
Populist parties must make populist-nationalism the ‘default’ right-wing view in the West
Last Sunday’s election results were something of a wash for the populist-right. In Romania, nationalist George Simion lost his presidential election to a moderate centrist.