Suppressing free speech and free votes: EU intent on crippling democratic resilience
The EU is justly proud of the liberal democracies it nurtured as it expanded beyond its original founding members.
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Ignoring the populist-right vote creates chaos in parliaments
Chaos! That seems to be the name of the game when it comes to French politics the past few years.
EU’s planned air-passenger rights reforms spur advocates’ backlash
The Association of Passenger Rights Advocates has come out against Brussels plans to reform air-passenger compensation rights.
Germany’s Die Linke youth wing caught in anti-Semitism row
Linksjugend Frankfurt, the local chapter of the youth division of Germany's hard left Die Linke, has been vilified after tweeting on X that Jewish teenagers expelled…
Governments give weak gestures on migrants, people reply with rage
This week, France’s government punished a Moroccan migrant.
Wannabe “revolutionaries” need a serious plan
In Europe’s summer heat, talk of civil war and regime change is spreading like wildfire and reaching new heights of intensity every week.
Polish maverick right-wing MEP Braun says gas chambers were ‘fake’
Grzegorz Braun MEP has claimed in a radio interview that Jews engaged in ritual murders and that the gas chambers in Auschwitz were a “fake”.
Will Portuguese Socialists listen to voters, or double-down on open borders?
The results of Portugal's May 2025 snap election sent a shockwave through the nation's political establishment.
German CDU follower allegedly assaulted outside EP for wearing MAGA hat
A student committed to the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was allegedly attacked in Brussels after showing support for US President Donald Trump.
Patriots MEP’s office vandalised by ‘ultra-left’
Anne-Sophie Frigout, MEP for the French right-wing Patriots for Europe party, had had her office in Reims vandalised.
MEP Vannacci questions value of Italy rearming: ‘Who do we send to fight? Gay pride?’
Roberto Vannacci, a former general and MEP for Italy's right-wing League Party, has stoked controversy by questioning whether Italy should bother purchasing new…
Defeated Simion may be back if new coalition fails to grasp gargantuan deficit
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…
The Left resorting to dirty tricks to sabotage the will of right-wing governments
Italy held five referendums on labour rights and migration policy on June 8th and 9th.
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…
Spain’s VOX aims to save olive groves from solar-power push
Spain's populist right-wing party VOX has presented a bill to stop the advance of solar power panels at the expense of olive groves.
Downstairs are heading Upstairs: It will be a shock to the drawing room
How do you keep the help down in the scullery and well away from the drawing room where they might upset their betters?
Conservative populism is changing: Poland’s PiS now has competition from the Right
Polish president-elect Karol Nawrocki’s victory shows that conservative populism remains strong in that vital country.
Europe, are half the voters now fascist? England’s metropolitan Left thinks so
The British playwright David Hare writing in the usually conservative magazine The Spectator last week presented a sixteen-point checklist for fascism.
Portuguese former naval admiral, now pollsters’ favourite, sets out stall for president
Ex-admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo has given his first interview as an official candidate for the Portuguese presidency, presenting himself as pro-life and, as president,…
EU ‘Patriots’ rally around Orbán in Budapest
Trumpism appears to have crossed the Atlantic and raised spirits in Europe's nationalist camp, to judge by speakers at the opening day of the CPAC conference in…
EU interventionism in national elections: Who’s next?
General relief in Brussels after the unexpected victory of Nicușor Dan in Romania, against George Simion, his opponent who had led the first round by a wide margin.
Meta shuts out identitarians and nationalists across Europe
Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp, has closed down pages from identitarians and nationalists across Europe.
Wilders threatens to bring down government over asylum seekers
Geert Wilders has threatened to blow up the Dutch government if asylum policies are not drastically tightened.
The battle for a conservative Romania is only just beginning
George Simion’s defeat last Sunday in Romania’s presidential election run-off is yet another cautionary tale for eurosceptics and anti-establishment insurgents…
Populist parties must make populist-nationalism the ‘default’ right-wing view in the West
Last Sunday’s election results were something of a wash for the populist-right.
My election night in Bucharest: the Right loses, then asks questions on foreign interference
With 99.8 per cent of polling stations counted by 1:50 a.m. local time, Romania’s presidential runoff came to a close.
Bulgaria’s government should give their people a voice on the euro
Until fairly recently, it looked like Bulgaria was set to join the Eurozone early next year.
UK elections are the last warning for pedlars of political business as usual
It seems now, finally, to be the turn of the United Kingdom to join in the Western World’s move toward the populist Right.
The Right reminds the Left, be careful what you wish for
When the Romanian establishment blocked presidential candidate Călin Georgescu from running, they seemingly believed that they were doing themselves a favour.
Romania: Right-wing candidate Simion wins first round of re-run election
George Simion, leader of Romania’s right-wing nationalist AUR party, has won in the first round of the re-run presidential election, taking 41 per cent of the…