EU Left wants to ‘blackmail’ opposition with Green Deal
It comes ahead of a debate titled "The attack on climate and nature: far-right and conservative attempts to destroy the Green Deal and prevent investment in our…
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France is being ‘bombarded’ with Russian interference campaigns, French minister alleges
The minister argued France was increasingly becoming the target of co-ordinated international efforts aimed at disrupting public discourse, especially concerning…
Basque separatists triumph in regional election
Basque separatist groups have emerged victorious after last weekend's regional elections.
French unions denounce Olympics volunteering as ‘disguised employment’
French labour unions slammed the use of 45,000 volunteers scheduled to work at the upcoming Paris Summer Olympics, labelling it "disguised employment".
Spanish PM Sánchez is a pupil of ‘narco-chavist dictatorships’, rival claims
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is a student of "narco-chavist dictatorships", the leader of Spain's VOX party, Santiago Abascal, has claimed.
Europe’s right must think positive if it wants to win
If there was one thing that everyone at this year’s National Conservatism conference could agree on, it was that European civilisation has gone badly wrong.
Two years into Ukraine war ‘EU still depends on Russian gas,’ says energy regulator
The European Union still cannot do without Russian liquefied natural gas, despite it being two years since the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, the EU Agency for…
Germany arrests three suspected of spying for China
Three German nationals have been arrested on suspicion of working with the Chinese secret service to hand over technologies that could be used for military purposes,…
EC quizzes TikTok over Lite app’s risk to children
Brussels is pushing ByteDance on whether it is respecting EU transparency and child-protection rules with its newly released app
Belgian PM takes flak over late response to NatCon event cancellation attempt
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has come under fire in Parliament for allegedly failing to act when Brussels mayors wanted to cancel the National Conservatism…
French PM Attal sparks controversy with proposed youth violence crackdown
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has sparked controversy by proposing new measures aimed at cracking down on youth violence in France.
Greek ruling party to run jailed politician in EP elections
Greece's ruling conservatives have announced that they will run a jailed Albanian politician as one of its candidates for the upcoming European Parliament elections.
EU-funded textbooks helped radicalise Gazan children, EP resolution claims
European Union-funded textbooks helped to radicalise Gazans in the lead-up to the October 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel, the European Parliament has stated in…
EU capital markets proposal is an EU power grab, member states say
A French proposal to further integrate the European Union's capital markets drew opposition from a majority of member states, who attacked it as a Brussels power…
Russian ‘interference’ at play ahead of EP vote, warns Jourová
June's EU elections are at major risk of Russian "interference", the European Commission's Vera Jourová has warned.
Firing blanks? ‘Belgian army’s ammo stocks at 7 per cent of capacity,’ says MP
"We can still go to zero per cent. Then [soldiers] have to shout 'bang bang' at exercises."
Opposition calls for boycott of Moldova EU referendum
The leader of Moldova's leftist opposition urged voters on Thursday to boycott a referendum on backing the country's drive to join the European Union, saying pro-European…
Croatia’s Homeland now kingmaker after snap elections backfire on PM Plenković
Croatia's Homeland party has emerged as kingmaker following the country's snap elections.
Polish President Duda lobbies Trump on Ukraine aid
Polish President Andrzej Duda had dinner with former US president Donald Trump over which they discussed the wars in Ukraine and Middle East as well as NATO members’…
Poles falling out of love with the EU?
According to the latest poll conducted by international think-tank More in Common across the European Union, just 51 per cent of Poles have a positive image of the…
Ahead of the Olympics, France to trial AI surveillance systems
The Parisian Police Department announced it will trial new so-called algorithmic video surveillance (AVS) systems at public transportation venues throughout Paris…
Poll reveals 40 per cent of Flemish want Belgian break-up
A near-record number of the Flemish public are now in favour of ending the country founded in 1830
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.
Remember Andropov: How the attempt to kill NatCon paves the way for more censorship
Let me introduce younger readers to Yuri Andropov, leader of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1984, and Soviet ambassador to Hungary from 1954 to 1957, during which…
JDE Peet’s sees coffee industry struggling to meet EU deforestation law
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Police raid AfD headquarters in Lower Saxony
The public prosecutor's office in Hanover is investigating Ansgar Georg Schledde, State Parliament member and Deputy State Chairman with the German hard-right Alternative…
NatCon censorship masterminds are ‘danger to democracy’ – Meloni
Those behind attempts to censor the National Conservatism conference in Brussels are a "danger to democracy", Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said.
Fears of political violence in Spain grow after Basque election candidate attacked
The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) candidate for the upcoming regional elections, Imanol Pradales, was attacked on his way to a televised debate.
Call to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group splits EU
The designation of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation has split the European Union as leaders gathered for a two-day summit…
EU auditors say lobbyists can easily slip under bloc’s radar
Lobbyists can easily bypass EU transparency rules to influence policy, the 27-nation bloc's auditors said on Wednesday.