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PM Pedro Sánchez’ PSOE is facing an unprecedented crisis as a criminal investigation probes alleged illegal financing, influence networks, interference with state institutions.

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Sweden Bans Cousin Marriage

The new Swedish law will not only ban the practice at home but also refuse recognition for many such unions conducted abroad.

Europe Unmasked

15:10

Scottish Parliament Backs Call for New Independence Referendum

13:27

Migrant Boat to Britain Launched from Furthest Recorded Distance

13:23

Greek Farming Fraud Scheme Gang Arrested

13:03

Hungary’s New Parliament Reverses ICC Exit

12:33

Belgian Court Rules ‘Factually Correct’ Remarks Can Be Hate Speech

12:32

Sarkozy Facing Justice

12:13

French Newspaper: Ukraine’s EU Accession Could Accelerate Further With the Election of Péter Magyar

11:32

Hamas Military Chief Killed in Gaza City Strike

11:20

Scottish Boy Who Wouldn’t Bow to Mecca Goes Viral

10:28

NATO Risking Logistical Breakdown, Think Tank Says

09:36

Bardella Leads in 2027 French Presidential Runoff Poll

18:17

Multiple European States Summon Russian Envoys Over Kyiv Threat Warnings

17:47

EU Weighs Up Restricting Veto Rights for New Member States

17:23

U.S. and Armenia Edge Towards Planned Azerbaijan Corridor

16:47

TEC: Into the Lion's Den

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Opinion

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Analysis

Cyprus Remains Politically Conservative Despite Electoral Shifts

Overall, the elections point more toward gradual political reconfiguration than systemic rupture.

Editor's Pick

Interview

“I was found guilty of ‘insult’ for a publication in which I peacefully shared my Christian beliefs”—Finnish Parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen

The former minister is taking her case to Strasbourg, convinced that her case is no longer simply about religion or Finland but about who decides the limits of acceptable speech in Europe.

Editor's Pick

Analysis

‘Magnifica Humanitas’: Pope Leo’s Catechism for a Secular World

“We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace,” the American pontiff wrote in his first encyclical.

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Analysis

Russell Kirk’s Anglo-Saxon Conservatism and the French Right: Prudence or Insufficiency?

Can Kirk’s measured, pragmatic conservatism meaningfully address a French Right forged by the irreparable fracture of 1789 or does it seem too mild for the depth of the revolutionary rupture that still defines modern French identity?

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COMMENTARY

Qatar and the Fifth Column Grassroots of the West

Qatar’s purpose in buying up Western media and influence is to create a smokescreen for the regimes that create the very problems which drive millions of refugees to seek the charity of generous Western states.

NEWS

New French Presidential Election Poll Reinforces Scenario of Bardella’s Ultimate Victory

Jean-Luc Mélenchon is now neck and neck with former prime minister Édouard Philippe, a dynamic favourable for the RN.

NEWS

Open and Inclusive: Rome Pride Bans Jewish LGBT Groups from Participating

Rome Pride said Keshet Italia failed to “distance itself” from what the organization described as the “ongoing genocide in Gaza.”

NEWS

Zapatero’s Road From Political Myth to the Center of Spain’s Fastest-Growing Scandal

What began as a judicial investigation into a controversial airline bailout has evolved into a broader political crisis for Spain’s ruling Socialist Party and one of its most influential figures.

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Media

Commentary

COMMENTARY

Qatar and the Fifth Column Grassroots of the West

COMMENTARY

The Two Britains on the Streets of London

Last Saturday’s rival demonstrations exposed a nation split between approved and disapproved dissent.

COMMENTARY

The Framing Problem: How Germany Talks About Homelessness

For all the official rhetoric about caring for the poor, their interests have been sacrificed on the altar of energy-efficiency targets and green ideology.

COMMENTARY

Muslim Countries Build Mosques in the West While Persecuting Christians at Home

Construction of Islamic worship centers funded by Turkey, Qatar, and Iran has been welcomed by Western politicians eager to court the Muslim immigrant vote.

COMMENTARY

Independence Before Identity—Montenegro at Twenty

Montenegro outlasted the Ottoman Empire, the forcible erasure of its statehood in 1918, and decades of communist Yugoslavia, but will it be able to outlast the European Union?

COMMENTARY

Magyar’s Test: Sell Hungarian Children to Brussels’ Gender Cult for Cash?

The EU assumes the truth of an ideology that most Hungarians—and millions of other Europeans—reject.

COMMENTARY

French Cinema Pushes Back Against So-Called Far-Right Grip

600 actors and directors claim to be defending their independence—that is to say, their progressive agenda.

COMMENTARY

Europe’s Order of the Golden Farce

Europe’s elites have turned a powerhouse into a punchline, then give themselves medals for the collapse.

COMMENTARY

France’s Great Culinary Replacement: From Escargot to Reconstituted Chicken

By championing the virtues of a bag of fried chicken, a certain section of the Left imagines itself following in the footsteps of Marx and Zola and sees in it a revival of the class struggle, updated to defend the ‘racialised’ poor.

COMMENTARY

The Quiet Collapse of Belonging

Britain’s young people are among the loneliest in Europe. This should concern us far more than it does.

Analysis

Cyprus Remains Politically Conservative Despite Electoral Shifts

Overall, the elections point more toward gradual political reconfiguration than systemic rupture.

Analysis

‘Magnifica Humanitas’: Pope Leo’s Catechism for a Secular World

Analysis

Russell Kirk’s Anglo-Saxon Conservatism and the French Right: Prudence or Insufficiency?

Analysis

How the EU Quietly Rewired the Politics of Marriage

Once a legal status acquired in one member state begins circulating freely across the Union, national constitutional distinctions gradually erode in practice even when they formally remain intact.

Analysis

Skyrocketing Oil Prices Could Lead to Hungarian Inflation Nightmare

A new report lays out a risky path ahead for Budapest—including painful inflation levels not seen since the last energy shock.

Analysis

One Month in RN Cities

Budget cuts imposed on trade unions or activist cultural organisations: what if this were simply a triumph of common sense?

Analysis

Sweden Is Still Very Much a Socialist Country

Another wave of media stories tries to portray Sweden as a reborn haven for capitalism. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Analysis

Inflation Surge Should Compel ECB Rate Hike

With the threat of stagflation growing stronger, the ECB is allegedly still reluctant to raise interest rates. This is very troubling, especially with stagflation lurking in the woods.

Analysis

Article 42(7) and the Limits of European Strategic Autonomy

What appears, on paper, as a serious expression of mutual defence still depends in practice on political improvisation.

Analysis

American Economy Leaves Europe Behind

Recent discussions have tried to explain a transatlantic difference that has been growing for decades.

Interviews

Interview

“I was found guilty of ‘insult’ for a publication in which I peacefully shared my Christian beliefs”—Finnish Parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen

The former minister is taking her case to Strasbourg, convinced that her case is no longer simply about religion or Finland but about who decides the limits of acceptable speech in Europe.

Interview

“The frankness in Pope Leo’s speech contrasts with the Vatican’s traditional diplomatic caution”—ECLJ’s Constance Avenel

"The European Union and the Council of Europe have developed dedicated mechanisms to combat antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred, while no equivalent framework exists to address anti-Christian hatred.

Interview

“The destruction of the cultures of Asia Minor after 1922 was a humanitarian and cultural disaster”—Historian Nikolaos Pavlidis

“While the rest of Europe was modernizing and spreading the ideas of the Enlightenment, the Greeks stayed in the dark behind the borders of the Muslim Ottoman Empire for centuries.”

Interview

Salazar’s Legacy: Patriot Moderniser or Obscurantist Dictator?—Historian Tom Gallagher

“António Salazar was distrustful of the terms ‘right’ and ‘left’ and took his stand around a position of steady but unspectacular nationalism.”

Interview

“The EU has developed tools capable of shaping national elections”—Democracy Interference Observatory head Richard Schenk

“If the European Union starts to consider democratically elected governments illegitimate simply because they do not share the dominant political line in Brussels, then the problem is no longer Viktor Orbán.”

Interview

“Hungary offers an opt-out, which Brussels does not want to allow”—Political Analyst Zoltán Kiszelly

“What bothers Brussels is not just that Hungary stands out, but that this alternative could become popular among a majority of Europeans over time.”

Interview

“What we are seeing today is the systematic removal of Christianity from its birthplace”—Juliana Taimoorazy, Iraqi Christian Relief Council Founder

“The West cannot champion human rights while ignoring the slow destruction of one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, the Assyrians.”

Interview

“What kept us religious was not passive preservation but active resistance”—Ignas Kriaučiūnas, Ateitis Federation

“Is it not possible that Europe, which once sent missionaries to the ends of the earth, may yet find itself re-Christianized by the very peoples it once sought to convert?”

Interview

“Europe Does Not Decide This War, But It Pays the Price Again”—Professor Alexandre Muns

The former adviser to the World Bank and the IDB believes the crisis will normalize within weeks, but will leave Europe weaker and more dependent.

Interview

“The Barbarians Are at the Gate”—U.S. Actor and Comedian Rob Schneider

According to Schneider, the twin threats to the West today are the green-red alliance, cloaked in the robe of tolerance, and Islam.

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Scottish Parliament Backs Call for New Independence Referendum

13:27

Migrant Boat to Britain Launched from Furthest Recorded Distance

13:23

Greek Farming Fraud Scheme Gang Arrested

13:03

Hungary’s New Parliament Reverses ICC Exit

12:33

Belgian Court Rules ‘Factually Correct’ Remarks Can Be Hate Speech

12:32

Sarkozy Facing Justice

12:13

French Newspaper: Ukraine’s EU Accession Could Accelerate Further With the Election of Péter Magyar

11:32

Hamas Military Chief Killed in Gaza City Strike

11:20

Scottish Boy Who Wouldn’t Bow to Mecca Goes Viral

10:28

NATO Risking Logistical Breakdown, Think Tank Says

09:36

Bardella Leads in 2027 French Presidential Runoff Poll

18:17

Multiple European States Summon Russian Envoys Over Kyiv Threat Warnings

17:47

EU Weighs Up Restricting Veto Rights for New Member States

17:23

U.S. and Armenia Edge Towards Planned Azerbaijan Corridor

16:47

TEC: Into the Lion's Den

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