Europe’s Empires don’t survive: This is something the European Commission still needs to learn
The European Union will have to decide: Does it want to give in or resist the temptation to turn into an empire?
Sanctions nearly always fail: That is the lesson the EU and the United States should take from their vain attempts to curtail Russia and China
The last year has shown significant shortcomings when it comes to West’s ability to use economic statecraft as a tool in international politics.
Civilisational confidence: What the West lacks is not weaponry but a belief in itself. Without it, we are sure to lose the next war
In recent days, a flurry of articles has warned of an impending war with Russia, with the UK Army Chief talking about the potential need for the largest mobilisation since…
‘Biden’s green LNG review risks making US energy dependent’
According to a recent report in Politico, the current US administration is conducting a review of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export facilities under construction that could…
More religion than science: To understand today’s climate alarmists read a long-dead Austrian economist, Joseph Schumpeter
The downfall of capitalism will not be brought about by a superior system, but rather by the success of the capitalist system itself.
More sabotage suspected after damage to new German gas pipeline
The evidence makes a technical mistake or natural causes unlikely
From the United States to Germany, the self-proclaimed defenders of democracy are fast becoming its enemies: They are playing a very dangerous game
A supposedly serious Bloomberg headline is setting the tone for the new year: “2024 is the Year of Elections and That’s a Threat to Democracy”.
Mass immigration comes at a huge cost and where migrants come from matters: It is time Europe’s mainstream politicians acknowledged these truths
In 2007, Philippe Legrain published the book Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them with Princeton University Press in which he claimed that “sober-minded economists reckon…
Predictions for 2024: The West’s energy crisis may be coming to an end, but Zelensky must look ahead at the coming year with foreboding
As the old saying goes, predictions are always difficult, especially if they concern the future.
It’s the polls that swung it: EU leaders watered down the Green Deal in fear of Europe’s populist tide
Abraham Lincoln’s saying that you can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but never all of the people all of the time is a bit of…
The big winners of COP28 are nuclear power and natural gas – Greens may be outraged, but that’s a good thing
There are many reasons to criticise a conference dedicated to solving the issue of climate change, especially if it hosts almost 80,000 participants, many of them flying into…
Is it time to give the populists a chance? From mass migration to green deals, the mainstream parties are beginning to look like the bigger threat to Europe
A few highlights from all over Europe over the last few days: The new Spanish government is colluding with a movement that openly calls for the dissolution of the Spanish…
We all need heroes: If the West chooses to erase its past, we will have no future – and will be replaced
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche distinguished between three kinds of history: The monumental, the antiquarian, and the critical.
Are we all Germans now? The ARC conference suggests European conservatism is pushing aside the Anglo-American tradition
The philosopher Leo Strauss once wondered if a country can lose a war militarily and still win it spiritually, meaning that while its arms could not overcome the opponent,…
Is Jewish life coming to an end in Western Europe?
Future historians will marvel at the fact that the ideology of multiculturalism has accomplished what even Nazism could not: Ending Jewish life in Western Europe.
Terrorist attacks, demonstrations celebrating atrocities, anti-Semitic hate crimes: Will the events of the last two weeks be the end of the migration pact? They certainly should be
In 2017 the British think-tank Chatham House conducted a poll in ten European nations, asking whether “All further migration from mainly Muslim countries should be stopped”.
Hamas has not just unleashed murder. It has made a massive strategic blunder setting the Palestinian cause decades back
October 7 2023 will enter the history books as the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
Surviving the Zombie apocalypse: What the Victorians can teach us
Every semester I like to ask my students a simple question: “Where would you go during a Zombie apocalypse?”
Western leaders have lost the art of diplomacy – Donald Trump is one of the few who gets it
The key rule of diplomacy is that it is most needed when dealing with one’s rivals, not one’s friends.
Europe needs new leadership: von der Leyen has been a failure
Ursula von der Leyen has this morning delivered her State of the Union speech. Despite what she said, the picture is not pretty.
Climate activists must be called to account for the growing anti-Semitism within their movement
Anti-Semitism is becoming en vogue again in Europe, and once again the far Left and the far Right found their common ground: Hatred towards Israel and everything that would…
What Giorgia Meloni can teach Europe’s Right – despite what the mainstream media tells you
A year before the upcoming elections to the European parliament, a silent revolution seems to be taking place in Europe: Right-wing populists are learning to actually enact…
Washington or Beijing and Moscow? In a bipolar world, this is the only choice Europe faces
This week all eyes have been on the BRICS summit taking place in South Africa.
Don’t be fooled: China’s investment in renewables is not about net zero – it is about preparing for war with the United States
History is a harsh mistress, especially for those who refuse to learn lessons from the past.
The EU must stop playing the good guy and start showing it is serious about Europe’s foreign policy interests
In the early days of the civil war in (now former) Yugoslavia during the 1990s, the late Jacques Poos said that this crisis will be “the hour of Europe not the hour of…
Germany’s establishment just doesn’t get why the AfD is on the march
According to Robert Habeck, the Green Minister of Economic Affairs, Germany has to prepare for five tough years.
Waking up to reality: There is a Europe wide push back against net zero
It is the very nature of reality to always reassert itself.
How is the war going to end? Ukraine must be ready to concede territory in return for a path to NATO and EU membership
The disappointment of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy was palpable: “It seems there is no readiness neither to invite Ukraine to NATO nor to make it a member of the Alliance.
The Left and Right are both wrong about the French riots. It’s time to turn the Banlieues into France
There is a difference between a trigger and a reason: The Arab Spring in 2011 was triggered by the Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi setting himself on fire in response…
If the establishment is secretly trying to boost Germany’s AfD, they are certainly going the right way about it
French president Emmanuel Macron is postponing his long anticipated state visit to Germany due to ongoing riots in major French cities, while the German establishment is helplessly…