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Mischief, studied bon mots and narcissistic tirades were a hallmark of this week's debate before Sunday's elections in Poland.
The Berlin Wall was one of the starkest and most tangible emblems of the Cold War divide between East and West.
When we observe the Polish public debate, we are struck by the brutality of the confrontation between Civic Platform (PO) and Law and Justice (PiS).
Poland stands at a crossroads as it approaches its election on October 15.
October 7 2023 will enter the history books as the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
It appears that some people are shocked about the way in which the EU is entangled in Palestinian politics and funding.
Access to information - and indeed the dissemination of it - has been massively democratised over the last quarter century.
The most obvious international interference so far in next Sunday's Polish general election has been the Ukrainian-Polish grain dispute.
It would appear that even the tectonic shift of Brexit wasn’t enough to get European Union leaders to change their ways.
Punaise! is an old-fashioned slangy French exclamation — its meaning not unadjacent to WTF?
There is an old quip by Voltaire about the Holy Roman Empire, pointing out that it was nothing of the sort: neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
The economy is the big absentee from the Polish election campaign.
Eight years after the encyclical Laudato Si, Pope Francis published another document, called an apostolic exhortation, to say what has been done - and what has not…
European Socialists are cowards, former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told a Brussels soirée last week.
2024 EU Elections polls suggest that the national conservatives of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) will be the biggest overall winner, establishing…
For me, the moment the surveillance society really began to hit home was as far back as 2010, when primary schools in the UK started fingerprinting their pupils…
Is the European Union becoming increasingly depressed? Evidence suggests it might be.
Every semester I like to ask my students a simple question: “Where would you go during a Zombie apocalypse?”
The tempo in the Central Eastern European (CEE) region is quickening, fueled by a concatenation of events that seem more like the complex choreography of a ballet…
Hidden in the dull reports from the European Courts is a groundbreaking judgment that makes it clear just how done in Brexit has been.
“Less is more,” goes the old adage.
Every year the advent of Yom Kippur marks the holiest and most meaningful day in the Jewish religious calendar, a time of atonement and deep reflection.
Agreements between national oil companies rarely change the world.
Conservatism is the new punk, said the former chairman of the Swedish Conservative Student Association in 2020.
The visit of Valdis Dombrovskis, the EU’s Trade Commissioner, to China and Beijing this week couldn’t come at a worse time for his hosts.
“No matter how much I try to imagine my grandfathers and great-grandfathers setting fire to other workers' cars, it just doesn’t work. #why”
The key rule of diplomacy is that it is most needed when dealing with one’s rivals, not one’s friends.
There is a point when the political covenant between the governed and the governors in the liberal democracies of Europe breaks down.
I’ve never believed that George Soros was an agent of Jewish barber lizard aliens commanded by Klaus Schwab out of a secret underground Swiss bunker carved from…
One idea that is deeply embedded in the mainstream Western conversation on the Ukraine war is that Putin made a “mistake” in launching his full-scale invasion…
