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Listening to and reading the Western media, one can get the impression that a new European legend has been born: Donald Tusk, almost certain to return as Poland's…
On Monday November 27, Polish President Andrzej Duda appointed a new government led by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, expected to last only until Monday (December…
President Biden has told Congress that if they don't give more billions of dollars to Zelenskyy’s government they will "kneecap" Ukraine.
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…
With polls now regularly placing Donald Trump ahead of Joe Biden in next year’s US presidential election, the extraordinary prospect of his return to the Oval…
Discussion on Russian state television emerged this week which saw Russian propagandists arguing for the re-establishment of "the great Austro-Hungarian territory"…
Can the EU political establishment learn something from the späti, the late-night convenience store that is ubiquitous in the German capital?
In a surge of violent attacks, conservative and far-Right politicians are being targeted by extremists all around Europe. The trend is becoming worrying.
Poland held its parliamentary elections in the middle of October and that poll with its record turnout of 74 per cent proved that reports of the demise of Polish…
European politicians are so addicted to bureaucracy that they now want to regulate things that don't exist.
What does the Israel-Hamas war mean for the European Left?
Welcome to the latest episode of historical reruns: the Ukrainian saga, eerily reminiscent of 1939s Operation A-Bewegung.
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…
There is no hiding the fact that across key Western nations the mood is darkening in relation to the Ukraine war.
There are a few fictional narratives that need untangling to make sense of Poland’s October elections, understand what is happening now, and know what to expect.
“If voting could change anything they'd abolish it,” was once a catchy quip used by cynics to justify their apathy and non-participation in elections.
British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, is so floundering, so out of his depth and at the end of his time that the basics of diplomacy are impossible for him to grasp.
You could look at a line-up – think of a police line-up – of everyone involved in last week’s riot in Dublin.
The failures of the EU project took on a tragically tangible form in Dublin with a knife attack that injured three children and a woman, precipitating some of the…
The history of the modern Irish state is a history of near-constant political violence. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either ignorant or a liar.
In 2016, when campaigners for Brexit warned that a bloc committed since its founding to “ever-closer union” would one day morph into a “European superstate”…
In a world of war, we must recalibrate our grand-strategic thinking. Here are five geopolitical scenarios for what could happen in the coming years
Anyone watching Scotland knows how the Scottish nationalist politicians are running the place.
We live in a post-Christian world, we are increasing told, with Western society having swallowed the “God is dead" proclamation from German philosopher Friedrich…
It was 2020 and the liberal Civic Platform (PO) was facing its biggest crisis when the presidential candidate Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska sunk so far in the polls…
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche distinguished between three kinds of history: The monumental, the antiquarian, and the critical.
"One of the worst things a white person does not want to be smeared with is... racism."
Amid the intense global coverage of events in Israel since the inhuman atrocities perpetrated by ISIS/Hamas on October 7, and with Western publics distracted by…
When the EU aims to stop relying on Russian oil and gas by 2027, it is bizarre an enterprise wholly owned by a Member State is working assiduously on a project that…
Nearly two decades ago, the European political landscape witnessed a remarkable event: Professor Rocco Buttiglione descended upon Brussels, not for a leisurely sojourn,…
