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The current policy of Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to be a demonstration of strength, but in reality, it is a symptom of Russian weakness.
The Western conversation on statecraft and defence in our times appears to have reached new peaks of strife, cacophony and sheer multiplicity and divergence of views…
There continues to be a great deal of apprehension in the conventional media of the Western European countries about the likely return of President Trump.
Three British diplomatic heavy-weights, recently retired, have just released a report calling on the Foreign Office to be “re-branded”.
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…
In a recent piece for Euronews. Piero Cingari waxed lyrical about Spain's economy.
When a European leader calls a national referendum he is confident he will win, you should picture the old Road Runner villain Wile E Coyote holding a lit stick…
If demographic replacement is undisputedly taking place somewhere in the EU, that place is Cyprus.
That NATO has reached its 75th anniversary this week should be a cause for genuine celebration across the West and by all free and open societies around the world.
The Western alliance responded vigorously to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and thoroughly debunked the Sino-Russian background chorus of the time that the Western…
Donald Trump is selling Bibles (“It’s my favourite book”), $59.
To dispel the concerns of any reader that this will turn out to be a lengthy piece on the subject of bureaucracy, I begin with an assassination.
Portuguese Prime Minister-designate Luis Montenegro faced a hard decision after narrowly winning last month’s elections.
Pope Francis is 87.
It is often forgotten, but when it comes to populist politics, the small country of Austria is a bellwether.
Bashing Berlin on defence has become a very popular sport among experts and officials across NATO.
Communism was supposed to be dead after the Soviet Union’s collapse.
The Conservative government in the United Kingdom shows every likelihood of being decisively defeated in the next election, later this year.
The leaders of Poland, Germany and France met earlier this month in an attempt to revive the Weimar Triangle, an attempt to coordinate defence policies that previously…
In 2010, the now German minister of the economy Robert Habeck wrote, in his book published that year, that “patriotism, love of country, that makes me want to…
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.
Until this month, most people were unaware of what a "kill notice" was when it came to news agencies, but after the debacle of the Princess of Wales’s Mothering…
Whenever I write about Ireland, I recall a poll run in Japan some years ago which showed most Japanese did not know there was a difference between Ireland and Iceland.
The collective flight of reason triggered by Emmanuel Macron’s bombshell suggestion last month about a possible Western military intervention in Ukraine is only…
There is an aspect over the decision about the timing of the UK general election that has been overlooked and it is a very human angle.
It seems that every month the European project becomes more beleaguered.
Much has been made recently over the prospective return of Donald Trump and his transactional style of conducting foreign relations.
It would stupid for the West to get further dragged into the Russian-Ukraine war.
In an effort to “keep our citizens safe and our country secure”, Britain’s Conservative government has announced a new definition of extremism.
France appears to be embracing the deadly Zulu “Horns of the Buffalo” tactic when it comes to the lifespans of its citizens.
