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CULTURE WAR EU BUBBLE
What we saw in Amsterdam just a few days ago is deeply disturbing.
DEMOCRACY ELECTIONS
After the Athenians beat the Persian invaders on the plain of Marathon in 490 BC, a hoplite was dispatched to bring the news to Athens.
CULTURE WAR
One of the most powerful images we have seen lately came just a couple of days ago from Iran.
ENERGY AND CLIMATE EU BUBBLE
Over the past five years, the European Commission under Ursula von der Leyen has passed more environmental regulations than any commission in history.
BUREAUCRACY
Immigration is not just the elephant in the European Union’s room. It is a horde of stampeding elephants, running at full speed toward the European establishment.
FROM THE CAPITALS
The news is getting so common that it is hardly news anymore. Chinese espionage is becoming a major threat for Western security.
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
Due to its sheer size, the displacement of its economy and its military might, China is accustomed to breaking rules and getting away with it.
CORRUPTION FREE SPEECH
In principle, we do not like autocrats. We also clearly condemn ethnic cleansing practices.
DEFENCE
A war of attrition against Russia has never proved to be a good idea.
ELECTIONS EU BUBBLE
Yet another European Union member state drifts rightward.
CULTURE WAR
While the world's eyes have been elsewhere, on Gaza, Ukraine, or developments in the South China Sea, tensions have been rising in South Asia.
FREE SPEECH
Political correctness in its original sense is a notion used in the early 20th century by totalitarian regimes in order to describe what was in tune with the party line.
EU BUBBLE
There are many reasons why European voters are turning to national conservative politics, but the most important one is mass and illegal immigration.
CULTURE WAR
Netflix strikes again. Its new series "KAOS" has already stirred controversy and caused reactions.
DEFENCE EU BUBBLE
There is a long tradition of Westerners resorting to India to find peace.
DEFENCE
Ukraine has surprised the world with an impressive offensive into the Kursk oblast.
ENERGY AND CLIMATE
The Greek government has been left on the ropes as devastating fires sweep Athens and the Attica region, leaving a trail of destruction.
DEMOCRACY EU BUBBLE
With hundreds of Hindus and Christians killed and thousands more attacked and wounded, violence on minorities in Bangladesh finally calls western attention to what happens…
CULTURE WAR EU BUBBLE
What we saw a week ago at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympiad did not just come out of the blue.
EU BUBBLE
Fifty years have passed since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
CORRUPTION CULTURE WAR
Shocking clues come out of the US Senate briefing on the attempt on President Trump‘s life.
DEMOCRACY ELECTIONS
With a long election period now behind us, we may ask ourselves: what do the recent European, British and French elections tell us about how democratic democracy is in the…
FREE SPEECH
A few months ago Brussels Signal warned that the freedom of speech and expression in the European Union would be endangered by the European Parliament’s resolution on hate…
ELECTIONS FROM THE CAPITALS
Nine years ago, Michel Houellebecq wrote Submission, one of the most influential novels of modern French literature.
ELECTIONS EU BUBBLE
So much for all the hype about the rise of the European Right.
ELECTIONS EU BUBBLE
After the second battle of El Alamein in 1942, Winston Churchill famously said: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
CULTURE WAR EU BUBBLE
Is the decline the EU has fallen into a terminal condition?
DEMOCRACY ELECTIONS
India, the largest democracy on earth, is heading to the polls right now.
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
The feud between Greece and the country now known as North Macedonia was one of the longest-running and bitter in post-communist Europe.
CULTURE WAR
Shortly after the Second World War, European nations decided that their only fields of future confrontation should be culture and sports.