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OPINION
The EU's plan to open accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova raises concerns over a potential influx of migrant workers due to their economic disparities.
EU BUBBLE TRADE
The upcoming G-7 summit in France is getting little attention in light of the continuing saga in Iran.
ELECTIONS
French polls suggest former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe is the elite’s best chance to defeat presumptive National Rally candidate Jordan Bardella in next year’s pivotal…
DEMOCRACY ELECTIONS
Elites worldwide are saying that incoming Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s win is a template for how to beat conservative populism worldwide.
CORRUPTION ELECTIONS
The magnitude of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s defeat is surprising, perhaps even shocking.
ELECTIONS EU BUBBLE
BALATONFURED – This prosperous town takes its name from the idyllic Lake Balaton. After Sunday’s vote, it may metaphorically have a new nickname: Tiszatown.
CORRUPTION ELECTIONS
CEGLED – The small, regional town’s Louis Kossuth Square was an ideal place to hear Tisza leader Péter Magyar for the first time.
EU BUBBLE WAR
President Trump’s continued online fulminations against NATO will not likely lead to American withdrawal from the alliance.
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
All European leaders have had to adjust their ways of thinking and governing to address American President Donald Trump’s dramatic changes in US policy and its attitude…
EU BUBBLE INDUSTRIAL POLICY
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz each gave memorable speeches at this year’s Munich Security Conference, laying out their…
ELECTIONS EU BUBBLE
In Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol, a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come so frightens the miser Ebenezer Scrooge that he changes his ways.
ELECTIONS EU BUBBLE
The European reaction to America’s seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has largely mirrored what one sadly has come to expect from the once proud continent: Pious…
CHINA EU BUBBLE
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz recently declared that the “Pax Americana” in which the United States guaranteed European security is over.
ELECTIONS
Paris is aflutter with talk of that poll – the one showing that Jordan Bardella would easily beat all potential rivals in the second round of 2027’s presidential election.
ELECTIONS
President Trump’s Republican Party got shellacked in state elections earlier this month.
ELECTIONS
Geert Wilders blew it when he quit the Dutch government in June, thereby precipitating last week’s snap election.
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
European Union President Ursula von der Leyen has forged what is likely the strongest role for someone in her office in the EU’s history.
ELECTIONS FROM THE CAPITALS
The victory of Czech populist leader Andrej Babiš' ANO party in Saturday’s elections did more than confirm the populist trend throughout Europe.
ELECTIONS
The classic book The Strange Death of Liberal England attempted to explain the rapid decline into irrelevance of the once-powerful Liberal Party.
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
The collapse of French Prime Minister François Bayrou’s government did not seem to trouble President Emmanuel Macron.
EU BUBBLE WAR
Official Europe is anxious and apprehensive about Friday’s summit in Alaska between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
EU BUBBLE TRADE
The new US-EU trade deal has spawned a legion of critics who allege European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen cravenly capitulated in the face of American pressure.
EU BUBBLE US
President Donald Trump’s aggressively pro-Ukraine announcement Monday would have come as a massive shock to most European elites had they been told a few months ago that…
EU BUBBLE FINANCE
The Brussels elite breathed a sigh of relief last month when Bucharest mayor Nicușor Dan defeated conservative populist George Simion to become Romania’s new president.
ELECTIONS FROM THE CAPITALS
Many observers think Dutch populist politician Geert Wilders was crazy to dissolve the government he had spent so many years trying to be a part of.
ELECTIONS FROM THE CAPITALS
Polish president-elect Karol Nawrocki’s victory shows that conservative populism remains strong in that vital country.
CULTURE WAR ELECTIONS
The Brussels elites were surely dismayed at how well conservative populist candidates fared in Sunday’s first round of Poland’s presidential election.
ELECTIONS FROM THE CAPITALS
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s historic, embarrassing failure to be installed on the Bundestag’s first vote merely underscores an increasingly undeniable trend: traditional…
EU BUBBLE
The annual NATO summit in Brussels on June 24 and 25 is likely to be the most consequential in decades.
CORRUPTION ELECTIONS
Marine Le Pen’s conviction for embezzlement, coupled with the court’s imposition of a five-year ban on running for public office, matters well outside of France.