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Exclusive: Heavy-hitting Congressmen tell us they are ‘shocked’ at EU speech censorship
Earlier this month, we led a delegation to Brussels and London to see how aggressive European speech regulations affect American free speech rights in the digital…
DSA : EU lawmaker slams US meddling – ‘We don’t take orders from Washington’
The European Democrats and their Secretary General, the Italian Liberal Sandro Gozi, have accused the United States of “political interference” after reports…
In trade as in defence, the US is strong and the EU is weak
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…
EU smears US with ‘isolationism’ but it forces Europe to do more
Ever since Donald Trump arrived on the world stage, liberal internationalists have thrown one particular insult his way: “Isolationist!
No decline in the US, it leads the West
As regular readers will have noticed, I have often dissented from the widespread view, generally uttered with a rather irritating attitude of resignation, that the…
International law had its era, but for now it seems over
The 19th-century British philosopher Jeremy Bentham famously dismissed the idea of universal human rights as "Nonsense on stilts.
What is the state for, welfare or defence? It is no longer possible to have both
While the entire world has been enthralled by the public feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, the world has also continued to move on.
US Congress queries EC chief over election campaign funding in Poland
The chairman of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Brian Mast, has demanded that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen clarify…
Understanding Trump: a new doctrine for foreign policy without nuisance
For over a hundred days, every pundit and columnist has tried to decipher Donald Trump’s foreign policy strategy.
Poland PM Tusk’s ‘undemocratic actions’ under US Republican spotlight
Four US Republican Congressmen have written to the European Commission demanding a response to the actions of Poland's centre-left government under Prime Minister…
Tariff de-escalation and hints of new world order show Trump’s tactics are working
It may not have been well-publicised in Europe, but the combination of the sudden temporary resolution and de-escalation of the tariff imbroglio between the United…
French left-wing leader blames ‘political police’ for detention of US streamer Hasan Piker
French left-wing leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has accused the US border control agency of becoming "a political police" following detention of an American left-wing…
On venomous kindness and mainstream media misrepresentation
“The problem with even a ‘TINY’ tax increase for the RICH, which I and all others would graciously accept in order to help the lower and middle income workers,…
Poles fall out of love with the US, survey shows
According to the latest poll on the Polish public's attitude to the US, Poles have become ambivalent about Washington's role in the world and on Polish-US relations.
US scientists headed for France to keep studying ‘gender and history’
US academics are crossing the Atlantic to continue their progressive gender studies, statistics suggest.
European travel to US collapses amid Trump’s hard-line stance
The number of European travellers going to the US has fallen as political and economic tensions have risen under the administration of US President Donald Trump.
Trump works a political miracle in Downing Street
Obscured by the deafening cacophony of incomprehension about a number of the policy innovations of the Trump administration, there are some refreshing signs of progress.
Ice-cold calm needed on tariffs and not journalists’ urge to report ‘war’
Perhaps the most sensible thing said in the hysterical particle-accelerator that was world opinion following President Trump’s announcements on tariffs came from…
US foreign policy? You have to wonder if America is even trying
Ah, the United States and foreign policy—a tale as old as time, or at least as old as Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
A history of French political convictions: lack of ethics or overheated politics?
The conviction for embezzlement of French Rassemblement National leader Marine Le Pen invites concern that the French are setting off down the same road of politicisation…
‘Private data and passwords of top US security officials found online,’ says German magazine
US top officials have continued being hit with security leaks: German news outlet Der Spiegel has found that private contact details of US President Donald Trump's…
‘Trump tried being nice, now he’s trying aggression’: Henry Olsen
Don't blame US President Donald Trump for the souring of transatlantic relations, Henry Olsen told a Brussels Signal event this week.
It’s too early to jump to conclusions about US foreign policy
The advent of Donald Trump’s second presidency has brought a considerable level of disruption to US foreign policy in a very short space of time.
US says ‘No more money’, South Africa is a failed and racist government
President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio's expulsion this week from the United States of the South African ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, is another delightful…
Irish politicians’ anger as Trump meets martial arts champ McGregor on St Patrick’s Day
Irish mixed martial arts champion Conor McGregor has drawn praise from US President Donald Trump on a St Patrick's Day visit to the Oval Office, when the Irishman…
Irish family ejected from Washington event after protest over ‘transgender ideology’
Three members of a well-known Irish evangelical Christian family were forcibly ejected from a St Patrick's Day gala dinner in Washington, which Ireland's Taoiseach,…
The Jeddah ceasefire proposal undercuts Europe’s anti-US hysteria
Western opinion makers frothing at the mouth in recent weeks over “America’s betrayal” and “Trump’s alliance with Russia” will have been dumbfounded…
Europe wants Trump to stand with them? Try free speech and toleration of dissent
European elites are furiously angry about President Donald Trump’s rapid shift away from the traditional transatlantic relationship.
‘Boycott USA’ : Consumer revolt spreads across Europe
French and Danish consumers have been turning their backs on US products, launching a growing boycott movement in protest against Washington's foreign and economic…