The recently completed COP-30 in Brazil begat no roadmap for a fossil fuel phaseout, disappointing an EU delegation that had hoped to rope the rest of the world into an approximation…
The European Union came to COP 30 in Belem confident that it could supplant the absent Americans and lead the world with the example of its own plans to achieve Net Zero by…
One of the fundamental obligations of public service in a liberal democracy is the requirement to set aside one’s personal opinions and fulfil the programmes of elected…
The recent deviation of Bill Gates from strict green orthodoxy must have come as a shock to Europe's eco-elites.
The economist Thomas Sowell once observed that there are no policies, only tradeoffs.
Like many leaders facing dire straits domestically, French President Macron hoped his control of foreign policy might allow him to claw back some of his lost prestige.
The serial travails of the dying Macron presidency may be dominating the headlines, but the profound dysfunction of Germany’s coalition government holds its own perils for…
Robert Conquest once observed that everyone is conservative about what they know best.
The European Union’s schoolmarm in chief, Ursula von der Leyen, has called her unruly charges together this week in Copenhagen, where she will rap knuckles and extract commitments…
Engineers know that system stability requires a capacity to manage unexpected accidents.
The odd saga of the Cracker Barrel logo redesign was likely mysterious to many Europeans, should they have noticed the story at all.
The EU is justly proud of the liberal democracies it nurtured as it expanded beyond its original founding members.
Once the European Commission opened the €800 billion defence spending honeypot and Germany moved to exclude defence spending from deficit calculations, the big beasts of…
Much has been made of the lopsided deal Ursula von der Leyen struck with Donald Trump, which among other things traded zero tariffs on US goods for a 15 per cent tax on EU…
The spectacular raid on Fordow nuclear complex showed Europe the limits of multilateral diplomacy when confronted with irreconcilable demands.
How do you keep the help down in the scullery and well away from the drawing room where they might upset their betters?
Moving with its usual lightning speed, the European Commission has pencilled in the end of 2027 for new guidelines designed to relax competition rules and permit mergers between…
Europe pays regular obeisance to remembering “the lessons of the past.
Hello Europe, I’d like to introduce you to America. No, not the America you know.
The European Commission finds itself in a bit of a pickle.
Anyone who still doubts that Donald Trump has a wicked sense of humour need only consider his chosen ambassador to the EU, Andrew Puzder, recent CEO of the Hardee’s and…
No one knows the hazards of the defence portfolio better than Ursula von der Leyen, whose tenure leading the German defence ministry was marked by a failure to improve procurement…
A performative fury erupted across Europe when the dread Elon Musk not only endorsed Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD), but agreed to host an extended interview on…
The good secular rationalists who founded the European project after the horrors of the Second World War believed that political stability could be restored by meeting the…
Volkswagen has defused the labour crisis sparked by its announcement of impending plant closures with a deal that agrees to keep these factories open and reduce overall worker…
Thirty-three years ago, Jacques Poos, President of the Council of the EU, announced that the impending civil war in Yugoslavia was “Europe’s hour” to take its place…
European car companies are locked in an increasingly bitter struggle to maintain profits and market share amid a secular downturn in sales of internal combustion vehicles…
In one of his Letters from Paris published many years ago in the New Yorker, Adam Gopnik observed that the French suffer from what he called a “White Helicopter” syndrome.
Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader and likely future chancellor Friedrich Merz is sidling cautiously up to the debt brake issue that just demolished the traffic light…
The high drama of Germany’s Traffic Light Coalition is over.
