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The government’s insistence that this referendum is “just about talks” echoes criticisms of how EU integration has proceeded elsewhere: incremental steps that are difficult to reverse.

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Europe Unmasked

19:18

Latvia and Ukraine: United by UAVs

17:58

Trump Upbeat About Rapid Peace Talks Conclusion

17:14

Azerbaijan Reports Four Dead in Ukrainian Drone Attack

16:43

ICC Chief Suspended Amid Misconduct Allegations

15:34

Leaked: Brussels’ Executive Gearing Up for Gas Tax Grab

14:52

Spain: Immigrant Arrested for Rape of Autistic Minor

14:25

President Wants the Euro for Czechia—PM Disagrees

11:06

“Merz Must Go”: Thousands Protest Against German Government in Berlin

19:31

Accused Dublin Knife Attacker Pleads Not Guilty

19:09

France and Germany Abandon Joint Fighter Plane Project

18:34

Nottingham Attacks Inquiry: Horror Detailed, But No Real Accountability

18:13

UPDATED: Zelensky in London, Demands Russia Ends the War

17:58

Expert Analysis Estimates Size of North Korean Nuclear Arsenal

16:59

Kosovo: Kurti Back in Power, but Not in Control

14:27

TEC: Into the Lion's Den

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Opinion

Editor's Pick

COMMENTARY

The UN, Slavery, and History’s Selective Amnesia

Selective memory does not bring peoples together but fuels the very resentments it claims to soothe.

Editor's Pick

COMMENTARY

Trump Spoke for China’s Catholics—The Pope Stayed Silent

The Vatican’s commitment to multilateral engagement is colliding with the reality of mounting repression against China's faithful.

Editor's Pick

COMMENTARY

Pope Leo XIV Visits Spain as Secret Pact Threatens Valley of the Fallen

Fresh revelations about a secret accord between the Archbishop of Madrid and the Socialist government have transformed what was already a bitter controversy into something approaching a canonical crisis.

Editor's Pick

Analysis

EU Commission Fights Losing Battle Over State Budgets

From Greece to Bulgaria, there are faint but promising signs that Brussels may have realized that it cannot whip member states into fiscal compliance.

Editor's Pick

COMMENTARY

Bärbel Bas and the SPD’s Contempt for Voters

The German labour minister’s attack on the country’ss supposedly “grey” and “brown” citizens exposes how far her party has drifted from the people it once claimed to represent.

NEWS

The Moment Spain Realized Leo XIV Is Still Catholic

After winning praise for his remarks on migrants and solidarity, the pontiff's defence of unborn life, the family, and parental rights sparked a very different reaction.

NEWS

Vienna Pride Event for Preschoolers Draws Criticism from the Right

Austria’s Freedom Party has condemned a city-funded LGBT event designed for children as young as three.

NEWS

White British Children Set To Become Minority in Schools

In nurseries, only 47% of children are white.

NEWS

UPDATED: Belfast Beheading Horror: Passers-By Save Victim From Attacker

Northern Ireland police that originally said the attacker was Somali now say he is Sudanese.

NEWS

Dutch Officials Warn EU Migration Pact Does Not Mean Fewer Migrants

The warning comes as the Netherlands struggles with a backlog of more than 50,000 asylum cases and record compensation payments for processing delays.

NEWS

Changing Electric Cars Policy Drives Wedge Between Eager Members States and Brussels

Seven EU countries are demanding that electrification targets remain untouched while Brussels and the European Parliament begin to soften some of the very rules approved just a few years ago.

Media

Commentary

COMMENTARY

The UN, Slavery, and History’s Selective Amnesia

Selective memory does not bring peoples together but fuels the very resentments it claims to soothe.

COMMENTARY

Trump Spoke for China’s Catholics—The Pope Stayed Silent

The Vatican’s commitment to multilateral engagement is colliding with the reality of mounting repression against China's faithful.

COMMENTARY

Pope Leo XIV Visits Spain as Secret Pact Threatens Valley of the Fallen

COMMENTARY

Bärbel Bas and the SPD’s Contempt for Voters

The German labour minister’s attack on the country’ss supposedly “grey” and “brown” citizens exposes how far her party has drifted from the people it once claimed to represent.

COMMENTARY

Sorry, Charles: Even Dickens Wasn’t Woke Enough

Rochester’s Guildhall Museum has fallen prey to what C.S. Lewis called “chronological snobbery.”

COMMENTARY

Henry Nowak: The Footage We Were Never Meant to See

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.

COMMENTARY

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

A civilization that no longer knows whether God exists, what man is, what the family is, what the purpose of life is, or what relationship should exist between freedom and truth is a civilization destined for disintegration.

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.

Analysis

EU Commission Fights Losing Battle Over State Budgets

From Greece to Bulgaria, there are faint but promising signs that Brussels may have realized that it cannot whip member states into fiscal compliance.

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.

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.

Interviews

Interview

“Europe Needs Long-Term Migration Policies, Not Permanent Emergency Responses”—Migration Expert Beatriz de León Cobo

“Migration is a structural reality that will remain part of Europe for decades to come.”

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?”

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Europe Unmasked

Bulgaria: ‘No More Arms to Ukraine’

19:18

Latvia and Ukraine: United by UAVs

17:58

Trump Upbeat About Rapid Peace Talks Conclusion

17:14

Azerbaijan Reports Four Dead in Ukrainian Drone Attack

16:43

ICC Chief Suspended Amid Misconduct Allegations

15:34

Leaked: Brussels’ Executive Gearing Up for Gas Tax Grab

14:52

Spain: Immigrant Arrested for Rape of Autistic Minor

14:25

President Wants the Euro for Czechia—PM Disagrees

11:06

“Merz Must Go”: Thousands Protest Against German Government in Berlin

19:31

Accused Dublin Knife Attacker Pleads Not Guilty

19:09

France and Germany Abandon Joint Fighter Plane Project

18:34

Nottingham Attacks Inquiry: Horror Detailed, But No Real Accountability

18:13

UPDATED: Zelensky in London, Demands Russia Ends the War

17:58

Expert Analysis Estimates Size of North Korean Nuclear Arsenal

16:59

Kosovo: Kurti Back in Power, but Not in Control

14:27

TEC: Into the Lion's Den

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