Vatican leans more towards Palestine than Israel? Not strictly speaking
When asked to comment on France's decision in July to recognise the State of Palestine, the Vatican Secretary of State noted that the Holy See has recognised Palestine “da…
Pope to visit the faithful of Belgium, but not the EU institutions, faithful or not
Pope Francis will not visit the European institutions during his trip to Luxembourg and Brussels, which will take place from September 26 to 29.
Cardinal goes to Ukraine to push for ceasefire, Zelensky won’t be keen
Volodymyr Zelensky is a man who knows what he wants: air defence interceptors, artillery, ATACMS long-range precision-guided missiles, more Stinger anti-aircraft missiles,…
Vatican prelates warn EU voters not to “isolate themselves”
When trying to understand the political position of the Catholic Church, there are two methods. One, just read the press release.
What do Catholic bishops think about the European elections?
In the run-up to the European Parliament elections in June, Europe's Catholic bishops have been far from silent.
Will the next Pope be Hungarian? There are certainly good reasons to think he will be European
Pope Francis is 87.
Pope Francis will use a coming visit to Belgium to proclaim his message to Europe – but he will avoid the EU institutions
Pope Francis has announced that he will travel to Belgium later this year to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the Catholic University of Louvain or Leuven.
The Catholic Church and surrogacy: Why Pope Francis is speaking out so loudly on wombs for rent
Pope Francis is making the Church's stand on surrogacy a central issue of his papacy.
After the Dutch, Polish, Italian and German farmers, France’s paysans are in revolt. It will make a difference in June’s European elections
Brussels’s Common Agricultural Policy worked for years, at great cost and with a wealth of regulations, to bring closer the EU member states’ farming sectors.
Predictions for 2024: The Good, The Bad and the Wobbly
2023 ended with two ongoing major wars, a worldwide military buildup, a realignment of most of the African continent as captive clients of China and Russia, and the self-inflicted…
Macron has managed to spin the Immigration Bill in his own favour: The master tactician has made himself sound tough but reasonable
You have to hand it to Emmanuel Macron.
Emmanuel Macron, the talking shop president is on the hunt for a Nobel Prize – a pity that press censorship seems to be his chosen route
It started with the effective kickoff of his four-month projected “Estates General of Information”, and ended with the 6th Paris Peace Forum.
Constructive diplomacy? The Vatican’s close engagement with Iran could have far-reaching consequences
The high-level contact between the Holy See and Iran, especially in the context of the conflict that broke out in the Holy Land, should not be surprising.
Is the Kremlin deliberately stoking anti-Israel sentiment in Western Europe?
In the streets of London, hundred thousand-strong mobs bay for Jewish blood under cover of “humanitarian concern” for Hamas-held Gaza.
Despite Brexit and Europe and North America’s populist revolts, the Blob continues to win throughout the West
The resignation statement of Josh Paul — the director of congressional and public affairs at the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, who published…
The West against the Rest: Now we really are up against an axis of evil
As I write, the media echo chamber has, predictably, become a fog of counter-narratives over the Israel-Hamas conflict, intended to dismiss the unique horror of October 7’s…
Cohabiting with bed-bugs and rats: What Paris’s current infestation says about France and the state of its politics
Punaise! is an old-fashioned slangy French exclamation — its meaning not unadjacent to WTF?
Pope Francis’s Laudate Deum is a political exhortation, not a religious treatise
Eight years after the encyclical Laudato Si, Pope Francis published another document, called an apostolic exhortation, to say what has been done - and what has not been done…
France’s new Immigration Bill won’t be enough to stop Marine Le Pen
“No matter how much I try to imagine my grandfathers and great-grandfathers setting fire to other workers' cars, it just doesn’t work. #why”
Is Soros funding the crack cocaine of European liberalism?
I’ve never believed that George Soros was an agent of Jewish barber lizard aliens commanded by Klaus Schwab out of a secret underground Swiss bunker carved from aged Emmental.
How Macron lost Morocco, France’s best ally in Africa
As usual, Emmanuel Macron’s timing was atrocious. Last Tuesday King Mohammed VI of Morocco was visiting victims of the massive earthquake in Marrakech’s University hospital.
A summer among the énarques: In this world nothing goes better with an infinity pool than a virulent dose of anti-Americanism
As an end-of-summer holiday, it was unexpected - and decidedly welcome.
This week’s BRICS summit will be a fest of anti-Western rhetoric, but it won’t amount to much – yet
This week’s 15th BRICS summit, which will be held in Johannesburg from Tuesday to Thursday, is billing itself as an international game-changer.
Blair, Royal, Timmermans: Is this the summer of the political walking dead?
They can look like Michael Jackson’s Moonwalking Dead in his Thriller video, and seem about as relevant.
Have we reached peak Net Zero?
That loud noise you hear may be the sound of the Net Zero agenda crashing.
Don’t let Europe catch the Anglo-American prurience contagion. Let’s allow public figures to have private lives
“Men are essentially what they hide: a miserable little pile of secrets”, wrote the much married and mistressed André Malraux.
Many think it, but few dare say it yet: The riots are handing power to Marine Le Pen
Mohammed*, my 40-year-old Moroccan greengrocer, whose small busy shop in a quiet street in central Paris serves as an informal club for the entire neighbourhood, tells me…
Why is France so bad at assimilating migrants?
France's riots have sparked debate about the integration of communities from North and Sub-Saharan Africa into French society.
Who does France memorialise? Macron is about to discover that historical narratives are more complex than political communication plans
It will be Emmanuel Macron’s next grand “Republican Ceremony”. The French president has a seemingly insatiable thirst for leading the country into remembering past glories.
Racism against sub-Saharan Africans in Tunisia: An overlooked factor in the migrant crisis
Tunisians are protesting against migration from sub-Saharan Africa.