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The Venice Commission, an advisory body of the Council of Europe, has analysed the legal reforms being proposed by Polish justice minister Adam Bodnar, and has advised…
The European Parliament's plenary session in Strasbourg ended in chaos on October 10, with EP staff begging Eurocrats to "please stay calm" after a locomotive appeared…
The European Commission is pulling back €121 million in assistance for Georgia after the country voted for some laws the EU opposed.
In 2003, neoconservative thinker Robert Kagan published a book titled, "Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order.
More than half of all recorded physical attacks on politicians in Germany have been against those from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, newly released data…
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has now made it official: he and his government are applying the principles of “militant democracy” to defend liberal democracy…
The interior minister of Germany's state of Thuringia has called for banning the Alternative for Germany (AfD), after a tumultuous opening session of the state parliament.
A German court has upheld the dismissal of a trainee teacher for failing to prove her "loyalty" to the country's constitution.
The Spanish government is planning a law to give the “hominid family of primates” – that is, to you and me, big apes – protection from experimentation and…
All parties in Ireland must promise to push actively for the reunification of the island, the country's former European People's Party-aligned Taoiseach (Prime Minister),…
Alejo Vidal-Quadras visited the Brussels Signal studio to discuss the report 'Europe’s Failed Policy Towards Iran'.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has outlined her plan to save the West from "inevitable decline" at the Atlantic Council Global Citizen Awards in New York.
Irish President Michael D Higgins has claimed that a letter he wrote sending the incoming Iranian President "best wishes" was leaked by the Israeli embassy.
France's new Prime Minister Michel Barnier has revealed the new government's political orientation.
The first cracks in the European Parliament's "cordon sanitaire," the refusal to work with hard-right parties, appeared on September 19 after a vote on democracy…
An amateur actor who underwent a radical change of heart regarding the hard-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) during a TV show was described as a "clerk"…
Meta has announced it will bar Russian state media outlets including RT and Rossiya Segodnya from using its Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp services.
Poland's PM Donald Tusk has admitted to taking legal "short cuts" in his battle to reform the country's judiciary.
Authorities in Venezuela have detained two Spanish nationals on charges of alleged “terrorism” and attempting to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro.
The Greek Government has said it would give a three-year tax break to homeowners who converted their short-term rentals to long-term ones.
The French Court of Audit has published a critical report on the Universal National Service (SNU), President Emmanuel Macron's civic-military programme, highlighting…
The UK's Labour Government has been accused by former arch-Brexiteer and now MP Nigel Farage of trying to bully him and a colleague and silence TV and radio outlet…
Although this might seem counterintuitive given the current political culture, but there is a realistic chance that voting for what the media calls the “far Right”…
Socialists in the European Parliament have warned they may withhold support for the next European Commission unless their key demands are addressed.
The Trump-Harris debate on Tuesday night was something of an anti-climax.
Justice minister Adam Bodnar and Prime Minister Donald Tusk have proposed that judges undertake a process of "self-criticism" as part of an assessment as to whether…
Every time a populist-Right party is elected, the headlines are predictable.
When Ronald Reagan ran for president of the United States in 1980, he put “peace through strength” at the heart of his foreign policy vision.
There were many factors behind the strong election performances of the two populist parties, Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Sahra Wagenknecht Union (BSW),…
A senior bishop in Germany has again ordered Christians in the country not to vote for the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
