When one looks at Europe’s responses to the threats which have faced it in the past few years – the Trump administration demanding they defend themselves, Russia’s incursion…
How does this all end?
A fiery Western leader on immigration is desperate to deport a series of violent criminals southward to a country the West once had great influence over—but that country…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a right-populist walks into office. The unelected judiciary says, “We’re investigating you!”
Since President Donald Trump re-entered the White House, the United States has been sending a clear signal to its European partners: “You need to do more to defend yourselves.
In the onslaught of speeches, statements, and executive actions undertaken by the Trump administration, it is understandable that some in Europe may have missed Secretary…
From the beginning of the Trump administration, Brussels-based officials have been struck by the new president’s complete lack of desire to deal with them.
For a moment last week, it appeared that European Union officials finally had realised that the 20th century was never coming back.
Nearly everywhere in the West, the centre-right is being replaced as the “mainstream” political party by the populist-right.
President Donald Trump’s decision to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has left Democrats reeling and knees quaking in Brussels.
If you have paid attention to European defence issues and NATO conversations these past few weeks, you’d have thought that something got into the water in the various capitals…
Out of the many actions President Donald Trump took on his first day in office, two caught the eyes of Europeans: his announced withdrawal from both the Paris Climate Accord…
Next week American President-elect Donald Trump will drop the “elect,” and President Joe Biden will pick up "former” before his name.
In 2023, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer appeared before a raucous crowd in a beer tent, proudly chugging a beer in one go. It made for great pictures and got great press.
If you listen to establishmentarians in Washington and Brussels, liberal democracy is under threat from anti-democratic populist movements.
Since 1945, Austria has only been led by the centre-right People’s Party and the Socialist Party, often in coalition with one another. Sometimes, they will trade partners;
The European Union has no “foreign minister.” It does, however, have the bureaucratically named “High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
If you would hear it from the liberal internationalists, the battle for the future of democracy is being fought in Tbilisi.
Last Sunday’s Romanian elections, in which a populist-right candidate, Călin Georgescu, defied the opinion polls and jumped into top place in the first round of the presidential…
There exists in Vienna a curious organisation, which, if you went by its title – The Economic and Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (WKStA, in the German acronym) – would…
Ever since the possibility of a second presidential term for now president-elect Donald Trump first appeared, Brussels has fretted about “Trump-proofing” trans-Atlantic…
The prospect of a second presidential term for Donald Trump has horrified European establishmentarians, who have long portrayed him as a threat.
There is a concept in sociology called the “Overton window”.
Last week, The Atlantic magazine published a piece with a bold headline: “Trump is speaking like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.
My great-grandfather left Italy in 1921 to sail to the United States.
Shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the beleaguered country formally applied to join the European Union.
“Scholz survives” blared the Brussels press after his party, the Social Democrats (SDP), narrowly beat the populist-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in recent regional…
For decades, the European establishment has drawn a cordon sanitaire (a sanitary cordon, meaning a refusal to deal with certain parties) around parties of the populist-right.
In 2019 Matteo Salvini, then Italy’s Interior Minister, blocked a boat from the pro-migrant NGO Open Arms charity from docking in Italy.
The Russo-Ukrainian War has been going for over ten years, and it has been nearly three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of their southwestern neighbour.
