Donald Trump will be the next President – and the world should be thankful for it
As extensive a scrutiny as can be conducted from North America of the leading Western European media outlets reveals with distressing clarity that Europe understands…
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With war on the horizon, the West’s foreign-aid extravaganza must be reined in
It is no coincidence that Claire Underwood, the lethal power-woman in House of Cards, starts the US TV show as the CEO of Clean Water Initiative, a global development…
Boris Johnson is the West’s strongest advocate for Ukraine, yet is backing Trump for the White House: The strategy makes sense
Donald Trump is overwhelmingly likely to be the Republican candidate for President, and some polls show him beating Biden in approval ratings by a significant margin.
Ireland’s establishment parties are panicking about the public backlash against mass immigration – but their Europhilia means they are left defenceless
A poll published at the weekend in Dublin shows that a third of people in Ireland would now consider voting for a party or candidate with strong anti-immigration…
The EU’s ‘hate speech’ laws are an attack on free speech itself: This year’s European elections may be the last chance to defend our rights
After last November’s attack on a Dublin Catholic school, graffiti reading “Irish lives matter” appeared on the Falls Road in West Belfast.
EU insurance regulation is not working, it needs an overhaul – says Ireland’s former Europe Minister
The handling of an inquiry into motor insurers in Bulgaria and Romania raises serious questions for the European Commission and the EU's regulators, writes Ireland's…
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?
Is Europe ready to defend itself without the US? Not yet, but now it knows it has to, and it’s on the right track – just about
The past couple of weeks have witnessed one of the biggest and most consequential shifts in European strategic policy since 1945.
The Catholic Church and surrogacy: Why Pope Francis is speaking out so loudly on wombs for rent
Pope Francis is making the Church's stand on surrogacy a central issue of his papacy.
The EU may say never again, but they are not making it a reality: Anti-Semitism in Europe, UNRWA terrorists and the Commission
It turns out that a number of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) employees were involved in the October 7 terrorist…
Western history is being constantly denigrated. We are asked to make daily apologies for our past. No wonder the armed forces can’t recruit
Faced with the threat of war with Russia, tens of thousands of Britain’s citizens must be trained as a “citizen army,” according to General Sir Patrick Sanders,…
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.
If mainstream German politics fragments further, would it help the CDU?
As Germans appear to grow more disillusioned with mainstream parties, WerteUnion's (Values Union) launch means the country has seen two new populist parties form…
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…
Post-Ukraine, everything has changed and there is no return to normal: Reconfiguring the State to deal with recurring crises is now a matter of survival
Much of European public attention is riveted on internal issues such as net zero and deindustrialisation, the cost of living crisis, illegal migration or indeed…
Is the resurrection of East Germany more than a fantasy?
"Thus it was that, 68 years ago, the flag of Austria was raised above the land, and the Austrian Dragoon was the law in Hungary ...
After the Dutch, Polish, Italian and German farmers, France’s paysans are in revolt. It will make a difference in June’s European elections
Brussels’s Common Agricultural Policy worked for years, at great cost and with a wealth of regulations, to bring closer the EU member states’ farming sectors.
World Economic Forum exposes European leaders’ incompetence
Bashing the World Economic Forum (WEF) is popular right now.
Putin is trying to resurrect Imperial Russia – Will he claim back Alaska? Surely even the Kremlin dictator will draw a line at the Empire’s California outpost
Vladimir Putin wants to re-establish the old borders of the USSR. We know that. In 2014 he annexed Crimea. Next, he invaded Ukraine.
Does Spain’s baffling Socialist affability justify a Conservative’s gamble on Labour in UK election?
It’s a tough time to be a Brit - the state of the country is not good. It’s even tougher, though, to be a Conservative Brit.
The EU’s hate-speech bill is not simply about being tough on prejudice. But it is a crackdown on dissent and a restriction on democracy
Last Thursday, in a worrying development for freedom of speech in Europe, the European Parliament voted to add hate speech and hate crime to the list of ‘EU Crimes’.
Make no mistake, Germany is attempting to thwart Poland’s sovereignty and future prosperity – and Tusk’s government is playing along
Much of the media broadcasting from Poland want us to believe that the biggest challenge for the new liberal government in Warsaw is judicial reform.
Rights talk: The gender agenda will be a major fault-line in the 2024 European Elections
Gender policies have become a major dividing line in contemporary politics.
Edward Gibbon, Max Weber and Ralph Schoellhammer are wrong: Protestants did not invent capitalism. We Catholics got there first
Dr Ralph Schoellhammer is the Vienna academic whose work you will have read in Brussels Signal. I treat him and his articles with respect. I have to.
The welcome but feeble Yemen strikes show that half-measures don’t work anymore: The West needs to relearn how to act with overwhelming force
The 11/12 January joint US-UK bombardment of rebel Houthi positions in the Yemen was extremely welcome despite its glaring shortcomings.
When the Right starts talking about white privilege we are in trouble: Conservatives aren’t going to win by using Left-wing talking points
In the protracted daytime soap opera that passes for today’s U.S. Congress, Hunter Biden’s surprise appearance led the highlight reels all last week.
Trump or Biden? What Europeans need to know about the US presidential elections this year – they are more important for you than any since World War Two
2024 is set to be the year of elections in Europe, with at least six national parliamentary votes scheduled along with the European Union contest.
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.
Whatever the outcome of this year’s presidential election, the EU still relies on the United States for defence. A NATO without America would be a disaster for Europe
Could Trump win this year's presidential election?
The Red Sea crisis: Britain and the United States are right to launch strikes against the Houthis
The disgraceful spectacle on display in the Red Sea, courtesy of Houthi impudence and Western “restraint”, is not just an outrage.