Few things could illustrate more clearly the total failure of the Euro-federalists to understand the legitimate political and strategic interests of the United States than…
In the aftermath of the rather acrimonious meeting in the White House on Friday between President Zelensky of Ukraine and the president and vice president of the United States,…
This has been an eventful political week for Europe.
Since my column last week where I attempted to examine President Trump's Gaza proposals in terms that would be more plausible to Europeans than his initial presentation, two…
There have been the predictable negative reactions around Europe about President Trump's comments on Gaza, and particularly the proposal effectively to remove the current…
There is a message in the current tariff imbroglio between the United States and Canada, Mexico, and China that can be usefully taken on board by other countries with extensive…
Speaking from the White House, President Trump last week sounded a stirring tocsin of nationalist capitalism to the usual audience in the grim Swiss mountain town of Davos…
The fantasyland of contemporary Western European notions of the Western Alliance was well-illustrated this week by an article published by the former foreign minister of Spain…
Despite the slightly pathetic effort of the departing Biden regime to claim that it is the diligence of the president and his secretary of state that has brought the war in…
The grooming gang scandal in Britain has been a long time coming and while aspects of it and some allegations may be excessive (or not), it lifts the rock on the widespread…
Even in Europe, which generally likes weak American administrations devoted to endless collegiality with its balky and condescending European allies, there are signs of relief…
Whatever else it may be, the collapse of the Assad government in Syria must rank as the final unflattering death knell of the attempts at nation-building by the victorious…
Chancellor Rachel Reeves' recent budget has deepened the decline of respect for the Starmer government, as it leverages tax increases amidst widespread discontent in Britain.
It is both a pitiful and contemptible state of affairs when within a few days of each other the pope writes, at least as a personal reflection and not on behalf of the whole…
Fortunately, the Western European governments, less than two weeks after the American election, are starting to come to their senses and recognize that the incoming administration…
The collapse of the German traffic light coalition of the Social Democrats (red), Greens (green), and Free Democrats (amber), isn’t either surprising or altogether unwelcome.
A glance at Western European media is all that is needed to be reminded once again of how little Europe understands America.
There is more than the usual curiosity that accompanies news of budgetary disappointment in an important country in the case of the shambles of public accounts now under review…
Part of the astonishingly clumsy launch of the Starmer government in the UK is the inexplicable faith, frozen in aspic, of the new prime minister and his senior colleagues,…
As many have predicted, including in this column, the economic terrorism of government green extremists in one country after another has succeeded in splitting their left-wing…
As this is written, the world is still waiting for Israel to strike the blow that it has promised against Iran in response to Iran firing 180 ballistic missiles at Israel…
Anyone reasonably conversant with British history knows not to underestimate that redoubtable country that has made such an immense contribution to civilisation: the language…
It is a hackneyed cliché to say about Germany that it was too late unified, took too long to decide whether it was an Eastern or Western-facing country, and could not satisfy…
Western Europe could quite properly see the Ukraine war as it now stands as a great opportunity.
The Trump-Harris debate on Tuesday night was something of an anti-climax.
The British Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced this week a partial arms embargo against Israel, the day after the discovery of the bodies of the six hostages who had…
It was a widespread assumption that French president Emmanuel Macron called the unnecessary parliamentary elections in June and July on the assumption that the Rassemblement…
European observers should not be deceived by the window-rattling ululations of joy emitted by the formidable and disciplined Democratic Party machine and its hallelujah chorus…
The recent rioting in Britain, which has been the most peaceable and law-abiding, heavily populated, country in the Western world for centuries, does not indicate the rise…
Perhaps my perception from North America of European official attitudes is incomplete, but a reasonably thorough hunt around the internet has given me the impression that…
