Portugal’s Presidential election marks the death of the fake Right
It was a historic night in Portuguese politics. Yesterday, Sunday 18th, the Portuguese people were asked to elect a Head of State for the coming half a decade.
The Danes protecting Greenland: They must learn from de Gaulle
“May you live in interesting times!” was a famous sentence a century ago. Supposedly a Chinese curse, it was a sardonic jab — “interesting” days tend to be troublesome.
How Brussels is moving to bailout Europe’s left-wing NGO industry
Brussels is panicking—and for once, the reason has nothing to do with Russian tanks or climate deadlines. The real crisis is informational.
Censorship: EU online regulation is not about protection, it is about narrative control
It has been a tumultuous end of the year for transatlantic relations.
For the EU, ‘Europe’ is just a post-national administrative state
What is "European sovereignty”?
EU’s crackdown on X shows desperation not strength
The recent rabid, full-on attack on Elon Musk's X by the European Commission represents a new chapter in Brussels’ attempts to purge the public square of inconvenient ideas.
Is China preparing for war in the Taiwan Strait?
Something may be afoot in the Far East.
Realpolitik not rhetoric: Witkoff’s Ukraine peace plan is generous to Kiev
It didn’t take long for the predictable chorus of indignation to make itself heard.
Von der Leyen’s (Anti-)Democracy Shield is an attempt at silencing dissent
It’s the European Commission’s latest dystopian invention—the so-called European Democracy Shield.
EU ignores persecution of Hungarians and Poles who are not Ukrainian
There are times when moral blindness and political shamelessness become an art form.
Portugal took more immigrants per head than Germany, now the desperate reckoning
For years, under the government of former Prime Minister— and now President of the European Council — António Costa, Portugal paraded itself as Europe's island of multicultural…
On Ukraine, neither expropriation nor Tomahawks will make Putin blink
There is something faintly delusional in the present strategy of the West against Russia.
The euro is a ‘decaying currency’, Orbán is smart to stay out
When Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that Hungary should refuse the euro—because the European Union itself is "disintegrating"—he was being anything but…
China builds mind-boggling high-speed trains while EU falls way behind
When the European Commission recently proposed its €500 billion plan to link the continent by high-speed rail, it did so with the usual fanfare.
Brussels is turning national electrical blackouts into power grabs
Five months since the lights went out on the Iberian Peninsula, Brussels has finally rendered its judgment.
European Parliament immunity: ‘To my friends, everything; to my enemies, the law’
Few aphorisms better capture the spirit of our age of authoritarian liberalism than the one attributed to former Peruvian President Óscar Raymundo Benavides: “To my friends,…
No military has yet learned how to face the danger of drones
Through the night of September 9, Polish airspace was invaded.
Trump sends in military to make cities safe — why isn’t Europe doing the same?
Will President Donald Trump send federal forces into crime-ridden Chicago?
The Lisbon funicular disaster is further evidence that Europe is falling apart
Lisbon’s Elevador da Glória has long been one of the Portuguese capital’s most beloved landmarks. It has now become infamous.
Au revoir, Bayrou? What a Le Pen-Bardella tandem could mean for France
France is exhausted.
It is not the heat: Iberia burns because of weak and corrupt politicians
The Iberian peninsula is burning—again. Again, we’re told - piously, mechanically, by politicians and journalists alike—that climate change is the culprit.
Hungary is right: Ukraine should not join the EU
As US President Donald J.
Here are Putin’s demands, will Europeans sabotage Trump to stop them?
It was a historic moment. Friday’s Anchorage summit between Russian leader Vladimir V. Putin and US President Donald J.
EU Chat Control law is a step towards mass surveillance
The EU’s controversial Chat Control Law is back on the spotlight.
Urgent EU automation can curb migrant numbers and bring rapid industrial growth
Europe is being left behind on automation. With a fertility rate of 1.38 children per woman in 2023—that is, well below the 2.
EU needs to play smarter against China, not harder
When it comes to trade with China, how can Europe navigate the rising storms of geopolitical polarisation? The task is anything but simple.
Ukraine in the EU would mean ‘€2.5 trillion’ costs forced on EU taxpayers
Where should political power ultimately lie? Eurocrats believe that the burden of responsibility is too heavy for the simple citizen to bear;
The Left resorting to dirty tricks to sabotage the will of right-wing governments
Italy held five referendums on labour rights and migration policy on June 8th and 9th.
With the Middle East ablaze and the world in conflict, Europe must rethink its energy strategy — now
The Middle East is on fire. As Israel strikes Iran and Tehran responds, Europe, too, will pay the price.
The battle of the Valle de los Caídos is not about memory, but about power
Nestled in the rugged hills of Cuelgamuros, not far from Madrid, the Valle de los Caídos rises as a stark monument to Spain’s fractured past.