Our culture fails: Europe will not certify its way out of this with passport exams
The continent keeps trying to manufacture loyalty with forms and exams. It has forgotten that its own order is a culture, not a machine.
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Old people and no children: Pope warns against Europe becoming ‘the old continent’
On May 25, Pope Leo XIV addressed members of the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Demography at the Vatican with a warning that they risk becoming “the old…
The rare miracle of order
We live in a world of daily miracles: Walk up to an automated teller machine almost anywhere in the world, insert a card, type four digits, and a small mechanism…
EU considers military mission in Lebanon as UNIFIL prepares to withdraw
The plan was outlined by Kaja Kallas, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, ahead of a meeting of EU foreign and defence ministers in Brussels.
European Parliament strips four Polish MEPs of immunity
TwoPatryk Jaki and Daniel Obajtek from the opposition Conservatives (PiS), independent right winger Grzegorz Braun, who leads the Polish Crown party, and Tomasz…
Europe’s leaders and their failures over Iran: They are playing with fire
What is it about a campaign to remove the Islamic Republic’s chokehold on Europe’s energy supplies that appals Europe?
Europe’s pre-revolutionary conditions are taking shape
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to address members of the European Parliament.
Afroman couldn’t have won his case in Europe
There is a war going on, oil prices are rushing up and down, and elections are being held.
Pompous: Europe in a moral quagmire between benefactor US and evil Iran
The Western European NATO allies of the United States appear to be celebrating what they mistakenly believe is the discomfort the Americans and Israelis are now…
Concerns grow over influence on EU of foreign propaganda and new media
A panel discussion hosted by MEP Dominik Tarczyński yesterday explored growing concerns about foreign influence in Europe and the role of new media in addressing…
Young men without purpose mean lethargy or rage across Europe
In 2002 Fox aired one season of a remarkably entertaining science fiction show created by Joss Whedon.
As the US and Israel prepare for war, the EU sinks into irrelevance
The drums of war are sounding again across the Middle East.
Polish FM Sikorski accuses US of trying to impose its values on Europe
Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski has slammed the present US administration for attempting to impose its values on Europe.
Europe’s unbreakable dependency on American AI
The global AI race has become the defining feature of our times. It is now taking place on an unfathomable scale and speed, and cutting across all domains.
The Danes protecting Greenland: They must learn from de Gaulle
“May you live in interesting times!” was a famous sentence a century ago.
Pakistan, Gaza and Europe’s strategic absence
Pakistan was never supposed to matter to Europe’s Middle East policy. Yet today, it suddenly does.
Europe treats its civilisation as an embarrassment to be dismantled
When Francis Fukuyama declared the "end of history" in 1989, he articulated what had become the West's unspoken creed: That liberal democracy and market capitalism…
EU has forgotten Pascal’s rule that ‘Law without force is impotent’
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:…
How New Year works in Europe now: Fires, riots, immigrants
New Year’s Eve is meant to mark renewal. Across much of Europe this year, it instead exposed a reality that political leaders strive to conceal.
From our correspondent in Tehran: Iran sees Europe as marginal, only US counts
Iran views Europe as a diplomatic minor player in the Middle East, Iranian officials and analysts told Brussels Signal during meetings in Tehran, arguing that EU…
The only way out may be revolutionary thinking
Amid all the public discourse about the threat of political extremism – especially of the Right but also of the Left – and the constant fretting about “division”…
Meloni ditches Trump-supporting CPAC in Italy amid US-Europe tensions
Italy’s ruling party, Fratelli d’Italia (FdI), led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is opposing the possibility of hosting a future edition of the US Conservative…
Polish President Nawrocki calls for end to EU ‘centralisation’
Polish President Karol Nawrocki said the European Union was “not a union of our dreams” because it was becoming over-centralised.
European complaints on Trump bombing boats are public but unserious
Europe is very upset about President Donald Trump’s decision to start blowing up drug boats in the Caribbean. Very upset.
EU ignores persecution of Hungarians and Poles who are not Ukrainian
There are times when moral blindness and political shamelessness become an art form.
Does Europe deserve a seat at the Gaza peace plan table?
Like many leaders facing dire straits domestically, French President Macron hoped his control of foreign policy might allow him to claw back some of his lost prestige.
‘Trump’s US drags Europe to the Right,’ ECFR study says
The US, under President Donald Trump, is exporting its culture war into Europe, deliberately dragging the continent’s politics to the Right.
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.
States now a leviathan gobbling up resources, blind to the crises staring us down
Readers of my column know that I have a soft spot for nostalgia, but I think there is a strong case to be made that at least in certain areas the past is not just…
It doesn’t matter what Europe thinks — and that’s OK
With the historic US-Russia summit in Alaska fast approaching, European emotion over being left out of the negotiations is reaching fever pitch.