Can European democracy be bought? Ask the rich men of Qatar
Shame, not guilt, is the currency of scandal. In 2022, on anti-corruption day no less, Belgian police uncovered €1.
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Political Islam sees Europe as a territory to be claimed
The experiment is over, and the results are in: The British laboratory has blown up in the face of its creators.
How the elites govern by ’emergency powers’ instead of democracy: Here is the list
As progressive policies find increasing backlash in western democracies, the growing tendency of the elites is to justify bypassing both public sentiment and political…
The Cyprus anomaly: Why is EU soil still under British occupation?
The news from earlier this month has been more than revealing.
Lost causes: Losers carry on and voters be damned
Those of us who grew up in the American South are familiar with the Lost Cause, a profound nostalgia for the defeated Confederacy among our elders, many of whom…
For the EU, ‘Europe’ is just a post-national administrative state
What is "European sovereignty”?
The British establishment says Brexit is failing but they only offer zombie statistics
“Be wary or there’ll be woe Know your friend from your foe.”
Globalism for students? In Brussels maybe, but not in Muslim Cairo or lawless Tripoli
Sports watchers of all stripes have encountered games where it seems a team just wants to lose.
What did the UK get from Brexit? Here are 75 benefits of independence
One of the common cries from unreconciled Remainers in Britain is: “Can you give me just one benefit of Brexit?
Governments give weak gestures on migrants, people reply with rage
This week, France’s government punished a Moroccan migrant.
No legitimacy: Consensual government by the EU is a mere hallucination
Nobody should be remotely surprised that - according to The Financial Times - the EU is looking to raise more money to fund its culture of incompetent improvidence.
EU now the union of genital mutilation and castration for children
A rather petty algorithm brought to my screen a Le Monde article (Europe’s most discredited newspaper, second only perhaps to El País) lamenting the “odious…
European retirement ages are forced up after decades of political incompetence
On May 22, Denmark’s parliament passed a law raising the retirement age from its current 67 to 70.
EU establishment outrage at ‘Islamophobic’ editorial in news outlet Euractiv
The European Union establishment has reacted angrily over the publication of an "Islamophobic" editorial in legacy "Eurobubble" news outlet Euractiv.
Brexiteers voted ‘Out!’ but are left still tied to foreign regulators they did not elect
Sir Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, is starting to slide the United Kingdom back into the EU.
Threadbare Xanadu: Europeans discover the EU is a bogus confection
What is Europe? Is there such a place? Or is this Europe thing just a creation of a communal imagination that itself exists solely because of a self-defining doctrine?
European establishment won’t listen to voters, so national populists will keep winning
Last Sunday’s Romanian elections, in which a populist-right candidate, Călin Georgescu, defied the opinion polls and jumped into top place in the first round…
Beria inspires establishment? Show me the man and I will find the crime
There exists in Vienna a curious organisation, which, if you went by its title – The Economic and Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (WKStA, in the German acronym)…
Does the cordon sanitaire still really exist?
For decades, the European establishment has drawn a cordon sanitaire (a sanitary cordon, meaning a refusal to deal with certain parties) around parties of the populist-right.
Austrian climate minister: I only choose the rules I like
Austria’s government, a coalition of the centre-right People’s Party (ÖVP) and the Green Party, has never been stable.
Attack on Georgia is hypocritical, orchestrated intimidation
The criticism now being directed against the Georgian government seems too good to be true -- which is to say, too good to be real.
UK Rwanda deportation law appeals to the Right across Europe
Marion Maréchal, head of the hard-right Reconquête list for the 2024 European elections, has defended both Rishi Sunak's Safety to Rwanda Act and what she calls…
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?
Iranian ‘experts’ have ‘succeeded in influencing European politics’
Iran is manipulating political discourse in Europe via biased individuals disguised as "experts", according to a report by Spanish MEP Javier Zarzalejos.
Has the EU project just imploded 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 EU machine is forgetting its citizens are not merely ‘economic abstractions’ — if they don’t notice soon they will be engulfed by the populism they so fear
How much is a carton of milk? used to be question thrown at politicians to gauge whether they were in touch with the reality faced by the common man.
Brussels accused of handing cash to Islamist-linked NGO – again
This is not the first time the EC has been accused of handing cash to organisations tied to Islamism that operate within the bloc.
Why has James Bond turned into a hectoring EU technocrat?
James Bond is back. But rather unexpectedly he seems to have adopted the attitudes of a vexed Left-leaning European Union lawmaker.
‘Power corrupts’: but whether more ‘absolutely’ in the EU or US is a close call
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
EU climbdown defuses row with UK over Falklands
The European Union on July 20 defused a diplomatic flare-up with the UK after using the Argentine name for the Falkland Islands in a statement.