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It is disappointing to see the wave of synchronised credulity with which Europe has fallen in behind the tired and mistaken argument that Israel is obliged to…
Last week at the Bucharest European People's Party (EPP) Congress Ursula von der Leyen was crowned lead candidate for a second term as President of the European…
Despite widespread media reports to the contrary, the reelection of Donald Trump might be the most desirable outcome for Ukraine in the upcoming US presidential…
Never let it be said that modern UK governments are unaware of the world around them and their place in it.
In his farewell address George Washington urged his compatriots and their descendants to restrict America’s involvement in the world and avoid entangling alliances.
Sir Gerald Howarth, a former British minister for International Security Strategy, has written a perceptive foreword to the new book The Music Stops, Net Zero and…
There are two key kinds of diversity in Western liberal democracies. One visible. and one invisible.
Judging by the bellows of discontent from his allies, French President Macron blundered badly with his suggestion that NATO countries may need to deploy combat troops…
Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost, millions of people have been displaced, Western economies…
Portuguese elections rarely make news outside that country. Sunday’s parliamentary vote will be different if the polls prove correct.
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord must have been the world’s greatest political survival artist.
At a time when Ukraine desperately needs practical deliveries of weapons and ammunition to help sustain its defence against advancing Russian forces, president Macron…
Despite Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s widely acclaimed Zeitenwende speech in the immediate aftermath of the Russian invasion, Germany remains stuck in its pre-war strategic…
PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński has demanded the resignation of his party’s top brass MEPs, in order to substitute them ahead of this year's European elections.
Europe’s recent spate of protests by farmers may appear to involve a coincidental concurrence of otherwise unrelated concerns. They weren’t.
It is with sadness and guilt bordering on shame that for the third consecutive week, my entire career as a contributor to this outlet, I must inflict upon readers…
We have been travelling in this direction for many years. First there was Obama’s pivot to the Pacific, an early reaction to China’s rise;
The Hungarian Prime Minister has expressed a strong interest in having his party, Fidesz, join the European Conservatives and Reformers parliamentary group after…
Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities famously begins:
A Russian artist, who in the historic way of Russian artists manages to live in Paris, is threatening to destroy pictures by Picasso and Warhol if Julian Assange…
“Democracy,” wrote H.L. Mencken, “is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
The Munich Security Conference (MSC), which opens this week, is the Davos of the defence and strategic policy world.
Just as the American Democrats and Never Trump Republicans have been propelled into full panic mode by the high possibility that President Trump will be reelected,…
Pope Francis has announced that he will travel to Belgium later this year to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the Catholic University of Louvain or Leuven.
When state-owned entities are endowed with privileges that shield them from competition and allow them to ignore the realities of the market, Governments create…
Donald Trump says it and the European establishment goes convulsive, as ever.
A resolution adopted by the European Parliament on February 7 accuses the Greek government of violating the rule of law, controlling the media, spying on its opponents…
The upcoming elections in Europe are often described as a competition between the reactionary forces of a resurgent nationalism and the cosmopolitanism of liberal…
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…
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…
