Germany: forget greens, time to become a co-leader of a renovated West
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.
Trump for prosperity and peace in Ukraine, no wonder Europeans hate him
A glance at Western European media is all that is needed to be reminded once again of how little Europe understands America.
French economy ‘at the edge of the precipice’
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…
EU in economic stagnation, but Starmer imagines it is the UK’s salvation
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,…
Despotic green policies lead to impoverishment and unemployment
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…
Commend Israel for emancipating the world from ‘odious infestations of terrorists’
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…
Tories could fail again, part of a grim political season in the West
Anyone reasonably conversant with British history knows not to underestimate that redoubtable country that has made such an immense contribution to civilisation: the language…
Wagenknecht and the rest need to remember who helped Germany rebuild
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…
Ukraine could be Europe’s moment, if the will is there
Western Europe could quite properly see the Ukraine war as it now stands as a great opportunity.
Anti-climax? In the debate, nobody hit a pitfall, nobody rose to the occasion
The Trump-Harris debate on Tuesday night was something of an anti-climax.
Hamas butchery goes on, UK response is arms embargo against Israel
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…
In France Macron helps fanatics and socialists fight authentic Right
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…
Rejoice Republicans, even questionable polls show Trump would win narrowly
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…
Immigration: civil, patient Britons have had enough, yet politicians will not listen
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…
Arab and Israeli civilisation gaining ground against Iran
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…
Profound Christian moment mocked by Olympics
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games contained an element that was ghastly and profoundly offensive in itself, and echoes more loudly as it ricochets around media…
Crumbling Western politics and instability? Not as bad as it seems
It is easy to succumb to the temptation, after the peculiar election in the United Kingdom with the disintegration of the Conservative Party, the ambiguous results in France,…
Surprise: Trump and Vance offer a high comfort level for Europeans
The average European reader is apt to be more mystified than usual by recent political developments in the United States.
Elections: steady Britain, shaky France, and the always surprising America
The much and in fact excessively anticipated fear of a lurch to the Right in the French elections has not occurred and the widely anticipated movement to the Left in the British…
Sensible Right on course to win in Europe and US, even if UK is out of step
The European elections, the first round of the French elections to the National Assembly, and the latest developments in the US presidential election are all movement in the…
EU will sink under regulation, it must go for innovation and productivity instead
Carl Bildt, a former prime minister and foreign minister of Sweden and senior official in various capacities of the European Union, has long been one of the most rational…
UK prime ministers have been failures: will Britain revive?
The European elections last week, as has been amply aired in the Brussels Signal, did not, as many aroused commentators claimed, indicate an alarming lurch to the potentially…
European Right are looking good for government
Writing from a distance, the three principal lessons of the European elections on June 9 are that the former bêtes noires of the untouchable political right have successfully…
Immoral plea-bargaining made Trump trial a travesty of justice
It would be surprising if Europeans did not contemplate with astonishment the supposedly legal proceedings involving President Trump.
NATO must control Kremlin desire to re-occupy its “near abroad”
The Prime Minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas, was one of those who put in for the position of secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a position that will…
Trump would be no dark age of neo-Jacksonian Euro-phobia
Those Europeans who for many years were accustomed to thinking of Americans as essentially similar in perspective to Europeans and as was often implied by prominent British…
Eurovision: is once-tolerant Sweden now anti-Israel?
The outrageous reception given to the Israeli candidate in the recent Eurovision song contest, Eden Golan, illustrates the enfeeblement that Islamic militancy has inflicted…
Tough French logic will lead Europe through immigrant crisis
As the militant Islamic threat to many Western societies steadily gained strength from increasing immigration, a high birth rate among migrants, and sustained collective fervour,…
Don’t count Meloni out, Italy’s leader is playing the long game
There has been a good deal of disappointment expressed about the performance of Italian premier Giorgia Meloni by those who saw her election in September 2022 at the head…
By the slimmest of margins, the US system has worked again
All of Europe that is not dominated by the Kremlin should rejoice in the passage of the long-delayed bill of assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan in Washington on April…