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For too long, comfortable narratives about ‘diversity,’ ‘community cohesion,’ and ‘no evidence of two-tier policing’ have been prioritised over raw evidence. This footage strips away the illusions. It forces us to ask what kind of country we have become.

Editor's Pick

Analysis

Liberal Democracy Is Crumbling on All Fronts

A proposed elder care reform in Germany becomes a stark symbol for the end of the European model. As comfortable middle-class life becomes unattainable, economic stability and political tranquility wither away.

NEWS

Polish Man Brutally Attacked by Zimbabwean Immigrant

The attacker faces only minor bodily harm charges and no deportation despite causing a spinal injury to the victim.

NEWS

Hungary Signals Green Light for Ukraine’s EU Bid, but Poland Could Be Fresh Obstacle

A potential deal with Budapest on minority rights may unlock Kyiv’s EU talks, but rising tensions with Warsaw over historical grievances could complicate unanimity.

NEWS

“He Brought Our Faith Into Disrepute”: Sikhs Condemn Nowak Killer

Community leaders say the Southampton killing violated Sikh teachings and insist the murderer alone bears responsibility for the crime.

Europe Unmasked

15:10

Wagenknecht: German AfD Firewall “Completely Idiotic”

14:15

Whistleblower: Sweden in Secretive Rush To Process More New Citizens Ahead of Restrictive Rule Shift

12:44

Poland Set To Keep Smartphones Out of Primary Schools

12:00

Fresh Skirmishes in U.S.-Iran Conflict

10:54

Ukraine Accidentally Directed Drones Towards Finland

19:01

Henry Nowak Killer Sentenced to Life Imprisonment (UPDATED)

18:55

UPDATE: 22 Confirmed Killed in Huge Russian Attack on Dnipro and Kyiv

18:14

Orbán Signs “Save Europe Act”

16:23

Trump Declares Israel Will Halt Planned Attack on Hezbollah

16:06

Secret Talks on Expanding U.S. Nukes in Europe—Report

13:49

‘Activist’ Arrested in Czechia Facing Extradition to Germany

13:03

Labour Braced for ‘Embarrassing’ ‘Tsunami’ of Mandelson Files

16:48

Péter Magyar Has Been Warned: Removing President Sulyok Is a Risky Strategy

15:53

Largest Number of Russian Drones Launched on Ukraine To Date

15:29

TEC: Into the Lion's Den

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Interview

“Values without power are vulnerable, and alliances without industrial capacity are fragile”—Nikola Kedhi, Albanian Conservative Institute

“The question is not only whether the West has the right values, but whether it has the power to defend them.”

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COMMENTARY

Media

Commentary

COMMENTARY

The SSPX’s New Bishops and Europe’s Religious Crisis

COMMENTARY

France Celebrates Champions League Victory: A Defeat for Civilisation

No one dares put the root of the problem into words: football has been corrupted by immigration, and French society is now nothing more than a shadow of its former self.

COMMENTARY

Saving ‘The Thread of History’

One of France’s most exceptional silk manufacturers is facing bankruptcy. Are we still capable of investing in beauty?

COMMENTARY

Péter Magyar’s Brussels Illusion: The Victory That Brings No Money Home

Until Magyar transparently shares what he has committed to, this announcement is just another episode in the extended negotiations between Hungarian leaders and Brussels.

COMMENTARY

Abrogating the Code Noir: Fine for Slaves, But Other Victims Will Wait

The peoples of Africa and the West Indies were treated with greater consideration than the simple people of the Vendée, who are still waiting for the crimes of which they were victims to be acknowledged.

COMMENTARY

Germany’s Trans Laws are a Threat to Women, Free Speech, and Common Sense

A feminist charged with “insult” for calling a man identifying as a woman a “man” was told she should have used the phrase “woman with a penis.”

COMMENTARY

100 years of Portugal’s National Revolution

One hundred years ago, a crumbling nation took hold of its destiny, restored trust in politics, and called on the Right and the patriotic Left to join hands in a grand project of national salvation.

COMMENTARY

Activists Supply Unsafe Abortion Pills in Violation of Malta Law

A Dutch NGO placed lockboxes containing abortion pills at undisclosed locations across Malta, openly defying the law as part of a coordinated campaign.

COMMENTARY

When ‘White Racism’ Trumps Black Murder

The more crime non-whites commit, the more ‘systemically racist’ the system is deemed to be. That is a foolish game to play.

COMMENTARY

Chartres Pilgrims: Nourished by Faith, Committed to Tradition

“The largest pilgrimage in the West” has drawn a record number of faithful this year, proving that Christianity is not quite dead.

Analysis

Clauses Without Command: Europe’s Post-Marshall Illusion

Sovereign states coordinating defence by consent, in preference to an emergency federalism that issues handbooks because it cannot field divisions: that is the only direction worth defending.

Analysis

ECB Blames Trump for Europe’s Financial Woes

Neither tariffs nor the war in Iran can throw a wrench into Europe's financial machinery like its home-grown problems can.

Analysis

Germany’s Frightening Investment Crisis

Businesses both foreign and domestic are turning their backs on Germany. The nation's deindustrialization is no longer a fearful forecast—it is stark reality.

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

“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.

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?

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.

Interviews

Interview

“Values without power are vulnerable, and alliances without industrial capacity are fragile”—Nikola Kedhi, Albanian Conservative Institute

“The question is not only whether the West has the right values, but whether it has the power to defend them.”

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.

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15:10

Wagenknecht: German AfD Firewall “Completely Idiotic”

14:15

Whistleblower: Sweden in Secretive Rush To Process More New Citizens Ahead of Restrictive Rule Shift

12:44

Poland Set To Keep Smartphones Out of Primary Schools

12:00

Fresh Skirmishes in U.S.-Iran Conflict

10:54

Ukraine Accidentally Directed Drones Towards Finland

19:01

Henry Nowak Killer Sentenced to Life Imprisonment (UPDATED)

18:55

UPDATE: 22 Confirmed Killed in Huge Russian Attack on Dnipro and Kyiv

18:14

Orbán Signs “Save Europe Act”

16:23

Trump Declares Israel Will Halt Planned Attack on Hezbollah

16:06

Secret Talks on Expanding U.S. Nukes in Europe—Report

13:49

‘Activist’ Arrested in Czechia Facing Extradition to Germany

13:03

Labour Braced for ‘Embarrassing’ ‘Tsunami’ of Mandelson Files

16:48

Péter Magyar Has Been Warned: Removing President Sulyok Is a Risky Strategy

15:53

Largest Number of Russian Drones Launched on Ukraine To Date

15:29

TEC: Into the Lion's Den

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