Cyprus: 50 years after the invasion, is reunification such a good idea?
Fifty years have passed since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
Wokeness and the Secret Service’s failure: DEI can cost lives
Shocking clues come out of the US Senate briefing on the attempt on President Trump‘s life.
Our representative political system undermines itself by failing the people
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…
Italy and Greece go after free speech: authorities prosecute dissidents
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…
Nation-state or Islamic Republic of France, Houellebecq’s question
Nine years ago, Michel Houellebecq wrote Submission, one of the most influential novels of modern French literature.
Meloni is angry, but failure of the Right in Brussels is her fault
So much for all the hype about the rise of the European Right.
Conservative struggle: an upset, but not yet an earthquake
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.
Only Europeans can save Europe’s ancient spirit from decay
Is the decline the EU has fallen into a terminal condition?
India is a democratic success: globalists are so annoyed
India, the largest democracy on earth, is heading to the polls right now.
North Macedonia’s Macedonia, or Greece’s Macedonia? Feud goes on
The feud between Greece and the country now known as North Macedonia was one of the longest-running and bitter in post-communist Europe.
Eurovision: bring back the beautiful women and handsome men
Shortly after the Second World War, European nations decided that their only fields of future confrontation should be culture and sports.
Nazis out, Islamofascists in: German elites ok with that
After the Second World War, Germany passed strict laws against any attempt to overthrow the country’s constitutional order.
Greek PM climbs to Brussels on taxpayers’ backs
If Ursula von der Leyen fails to secure a majority vote in the European Parliament in the next election for President of the Commission, Greek PM Mitsotakis could step in…
Thank you Emir, for playing Sultan
Having been a speaker at the 2022 National Conservatism conference in Brussels, there are two things I can say without hesitation.
For Europe to be a world player, it needs to be a military power. The continent’s leaders may be waking up to this
The last two years of European involvement in the Ukraine war have revealed an uncomfortable truth: The EU may be a global economic and political power, but its military capacity…
The changing face of Cyprus: Will the island state soon be the first European country with a non-European majority?
If demographic replacement is undisputedly taking place somewhere in the EU, that place is Cyprus.
Greek government survives no-confidence vote, but anger swells after reports of rail crash ‘cover-up’
The vote, 159 votes to 141, follows claims from both the Left and the Right that the government engaged in a cover-up to protect certain politicians connected to last year's…
Viktor Orbán or Ursula von der Leyen? That is the choice facing Giorgia Meloni. Which way she goes could shape the future direction of Europe for a generation
Before she came to power, many thought that Giorgia Meloni would be an Italian Viktor Orban. Two years later, it is obvious that she is not.
The EPP is now talking tough on migration as they seek to head off a populist revolt at the European elections – with Ursula von der Leyen’s record, don’t believe them
Last week at the Bucharest European People's Party (EPP) Congress Ursula von der Leyen was crowned lead candidate for a second term as President of the European Commision.
Two years into the conflict, have Putin and the Russian economy been the real winners of the war in Ukraine? Depressingly that’s what the numbers suggest
Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost, millions of people have been displaced, Western economies have…
Fighting back: Poland’s conservatives change their guard ahead of European and US elections
PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński has demanded the resignation of his party’s top brass MEPs, in order to substitute them ahead of this year's European elections.
In a further sign of the decay of the EPP, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s hopes of snaffling a top EU job have been dashed
A resolution adopted by the European Parliament on February 7 accuses the Greek government of violating the rule of law, controlling the media, spying on its opponents and…
Greek Government ‘leaking support’ over proposed LGBTQ law
Greece’s centre-right Government is said to be "leaking support" to populist parties over its intentions to pass new legislation promoting LGBTQ rights.
The EU’s ‘hate speech’ laws are an attack on free speech itself: This year’s European elections may be the last chance to defend our rights
After last November’s attack on a Dublin Catholic school, graffiti reading “Irish lives matter” appeared on the Falls Road in West Belfast.
The EU may say never again, but they are not making it a reality: Anti-Semitism in Europe, UNRWA terrorists and the Commission
It turns out that a number of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) employees were involved in the October 7 terrorist attacks…
Rights talk: The gender agenda will be a major fault-line in the 2024 European Elections
Gender policies have become a major dividing line in contemporary politics. Divisions over the LGBTQ agenda run deep, as it now goes way beyond the rights of a social minority.
Greece ‘behind Russia’s ability to evade EU sanctions’
After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, economic sanctions were imposed on Moscow by the European Union and others in a bid to pressure Moscow into halting…
Democracy at the crossroads: Illiberal liberals seem intent on rigging Europe’s elections
From Frederic Bastiat’s The Law to John Rawls’s Theory of Justice, the basic premise of liberal philosophy has always been equality before the law: Freedom and justice…
Predictions for 2024: This year could see the breakthrough of Europe’s Right, turning the European Parliament into a nightmare for the Left
2023 has been an important year for conservative and Right-wing parties in Europe. 2024, however, will be truly decisive.
Let’s stand up for Christmas
With Europe’s Christian identity in the crosshairs, Christmas is under fire, both literally and metaphorically.