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COMMENTARY

Political Revenge? Hungary’s New Asset Recovery Office Puts Conservatives on Alert

Anna Unger’s appointment as the head of the new agency has intensified fears among conservatives that the government’s “anti-corruption drive” could turn into a campaign of political retribution.

Europe Unmasked

11:53

West Bank School Leaders Keep Backing October 7

10:33

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan Sign Mutual Defence Pact Amid Regional Tensions

15:41

Labour Party Membership Sinks Under Starmer

14:43

Drought Reveals Remains of Roman-Era Constantine Bridge in the Danube

14:33

English Channel Fiasco: Dozens of ‘Returned’ Migrants Re-enter UK

13:50

One in Seven Germans Considering Emigration Within Five Years

12:40

UPDATE: Afghan Convicted of Lethal Munich Car-Ramming Attack

11:02

Ukraine: Nearly 16,000 Foreign Volunteers Serving in Armed Forces

10:43

Prosecutors Charge Swedish Pensioner Over Islam-Critical Posts

10:16

Crikey! Indications Increasing of Australia-Wide Militarism

07:53

China Ahead in Orbital Data Center Space Race

17:35

Lithuania Warns of Potential ‘False Flag Strike’ by Russia on Baltic States

16:50

Denmark Introduces Stricter Rules To Combat School AI Cheating

15:57

U.S. Doubles Funding for ‘Trump Route’ Project in South Caucasus

14:04

TEC: Into the Lion's Den

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COMMENTARY

Vatican–China Contentious Accord: How the Holy See Is Appeasing a Communist Regime

By continuing the agreement with the CCP, the Vatican is essentially supporting its distortion of religious practices and is perilously nearing complicity in the escalating human rights violations within the country.

Editor's Pick

Analysis

India Puts Its First Private Rocket Into Orbit As Europe Still Waits for Its Own

Vikram-1’s success confirms India’s entry into the private launch market just as Europe fears it may be unable to meet projected demand by the end of the decade.

Editor's Pick

COMMENTARY

The Illusion of a Left Without Woke

Susan Neiman is right to challenge the excesses of identity politics—but wrong to treat them as an alien intrusion. The ideas behind today’s politics of identity grew from within the Left itself, raising a deeper question about whether it can escape the intellectual path that led it here.

Editor's Pick

Analysis

SAIC Factory in Spain Demonstrates von der Leyen’s Industrial Contradiction

Brussels promises to reduce dependencies while Chinese companies gain ground in sectors that are essential to the European economy.

Editor's Pick

COMMENTARY

Poland Shows How Religion Can Be Removed from Public Life Without Being Banned

Administrative secularisation is quiet by design. Its instruments are technical; its consequences are not.

NEWS

Meta: The Trial of the Century Cut Short

Meta has escaped a landmark ruling—but the battle over who should bear responsibility for social media’s harms is far from over.

NEWS

Brussels To Appoint ‘Gold Commander’ After Six Shootings in One Weekend

As violence linked to organised drug trafficking escalates in the EU capital, local politicians are scrambling to regain control of the streets.

NEWS

AfD on Course for Historic Breakthrough in Saxony-Anhalt

Lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund is promising political change as the AfD polls at 42% in Saxony-Anhalt less than two weeks ahead of the state election.

NEWS

More Violence In Ceuta: Clashes With Residents, Ambush On Soldiers

Police prevented a confrontation between residents and illegal immigrants hours before a group of between 30 and 40 people attacked an Army vehicle.

NEWS

German Crime Statistics Reveal Shocking Rise in Foreign Suspects Since 2000

Some violent crimes have seen the number of foreign suspects triple.

NEWS

Ceuta Crisis Forces Spain To Accelerate Asylum Law Reform

The government is belatedly bringing Spanish legislation into line with the new EU Migration Pact as the crisis in the autonomous city turns border management into a national security issue.

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Commentary

COMMENTARY

Vatican–China Contentious Accord: How the Holy See Is Appeasing a Communist Regime

COMMENTARY

The Illusion of a Left Without Woke

COMMENTARY

Poland Shows How Religion Can Be Removed from Public Life Without Being Banned

Administrative secularisation is quiet by design. Its instruments are technical; its consequences are not.

COMMENTARY

From Adenauer to Spahn: The Unraveling of Germany’s Christian Democratic Tradition

The CDU once sought to anchor postwar Germany in a Christian vision of human dignity and moral order. Today, its symbols remain while the convictions behind them fade.

COMMENTARY

The Jason Arday Case: Identity Over Integrity

The Jason Arday affair suggests that Britain's academic establishment became so eager to celebrate an emblematic success story that it neglected the ordinary standards of verification expected of every scholar.

COMMENTARY

Homer in an Age of Revisionism

Homer’s epics are foundational to Western civilization. Their reinterpretation should enrich our understanding of the classical tradition, not distort its historical and cultural legacy.

COMMENTARY

Whatever Happened to Dignity?

How ‘SlutWalk’ changed the conversation about women—and why it matters.

COMMENTARY

The Constitutional Coup and the Building of an Authoritarian Regime in Hungary

Péter Magyar and the Tisza Party are dismantling democratic Hungary as we have known it since 1990.

COMMENTARY

Germany’s Cultural Suicide

From Berlin’s dawn trains to a near-miss in Hamburg and a quiet Hessian town, one traveller returns to a Germany he once loved—and finds it changed in ways that leave him unsettled.

COMMENTARY

Not Just an Invasion—but Surrender

The mass crossings at Ceuta and Melilla expose the consequences of a political class that has traded border security for ideological commitments.

Analysis

India Puts Its First Private Rocket Into Orbit As Europe Still Waits for Its Own

Vikram-1’s success confirms India’s entry into the private launch market just as Europe fears it may be unable to meet projected demand by the end of the decade.

Analysis

SAIC Factory in Spain Demonstrates von der Leyen’s Industrial Contradiction

Brussels promises to reduce dependencies while Chinese companies gain ground in sectors that are essential to the European economy.

Analysis

Quo Vadis, Europe: A New Dark Age or the Next Renaissance?

It’s not that European elites embrace the uninvited illegal aliens’ values. They just despise their own. A civilization ashamed of itself cannot ask others to assimilate into anything meaningful. And so they don’t.

Analysis

Europe’s Foreign Policy Veto Is Not a Flaw

Abolishing the veto will not create a common strategic interest where none exists. It will merely allow the majority to impose on individual countries decisions that those countries may regard as a threat to their own security.

Analysis

The Lost Republic of Letters

Before Europe became a collection of nation-states, it was a civilization bound together by scholars, shared learning, and the pursuit of truth. As our capacity to communicate has expanded beyond imagination, the intellectual culture that sustained that world has steadily eroded.

Analysis

The Dangerous Illusion of Anti-Politics

Anti-politics has become the latest trending communication product, but if we denounce political experience as a sin and herald amateurism as a virtue, we pave the way for chaos.

Analysis

E-Mobility: Central Planning Goes Electric

Germany's massive investment in EV charging infrastructure was meant to accelerate the green transition. Instead, it has become a textbook case of cronyism, central planning, and the high cost of ignoring market signals.

Analysis

Ceuta Reveals the Naked Truth About Europe’s Migration Crisis

Europe may choose an extensive welfare state. It may choose extremely open immigration. But it cannot indefinitely maintain both without producing fiscal strain, political conflict, and declining public trust.

Analysis

German Democracy and the Docta Ignorantia

Democracy is not paradise, ideology, or a blank canvas for every political desire. It is a set of rules that demand restraint—and the humble recognition that we can be wrong.

Analysis

The COVID Control Regime Built on False Certainties

A scathing U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee report backs a probable laboratory origin for COVID-19, finds no quantitative basis for the six-foot rule, and argues that officials overstated the vaccines’ ability to prevent infection and transmission.

Interviews

Interview

“Why should culture be bound by specific modern borders?”—Archaeologist Mario Trabucco della Torretta

“If we allow heritage to be stripped of its significance and handed over to competing tribes, we won't just lose our museums—we will lose the ability to see ourselves in the history of others.”

Interview

Brussels’ Silence on Turkish Occupation of Cyprus “Cowardice in a Diplomat’s Suit”—Head of Office to MEP Afroditi Latinopoulou Emmanouil Koulas

“Brussels stays quiet because Ankara holds two levers over Europe: an illegal migration tap that it can open or shut at will, and a seat on NATO’s southern flank which nobody wants to lose.”

Interview

Satire in the Age of Cancel Culture

For German cartoonist Bernd Zeller, the more sacred the political consensus becomes, the richer the material.

Interview

In the Last Three Years, More Than 150,000 People Have Entered Greece Illegally—Researcher Ioannis Kolovos

“No matter which immigration policy has been followed in Europe, they have all failed because they did not meet two criteria: very small numbers and cultural proximity.”

Interview

“American independence was largely financed with Spanish money”: An Interview with Jorge Luis García Ruiz

A discussion with the author of Revolution, which recovers a little-known chapter of history: Spain’s decisive contribution to American independence.

Interview

“Europe must formulate a unified strategy to protect its borders” —Journalist and Political Advisor Rafail Kaliviotis

“The comparative advantage of the West has always resided in its rich cultural capital.”

Interview

Pío Moa and the Spanish Civil War

“Few leftists remember that the amnesty law, created in 1978 during Spain’s transition to democracy, also pardoned communists and separatist terrorists.”

Interview

Christianity Is the New Counterculture: Why Young Men Are Seeking the Church

“Previous generations gave poor answers, stemming from the dictatorship of relativism, expressed by saying, ‘it is good if it is true for you; it just isn't true for me.’ That is superficial,” Father Daniel Ebert Steiner says.

Interview

The Man Who Wants the AfD To Win—German Ex-Boxer Wolfgang Blume

East Germans are flocking to the AfD because they’ve lived through socialism once, Wolfgang Blume says—and they can see it returning in the increasingly socialist policies of the establishment parties.

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.”

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France: Two Killed in Suspected Vehicular Mass Casualty Attack

11:53

West Bank School Leaders Keep Backing October 7

10:33

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan Sign Mutual Defence Pact Amid Regional Tensions

15:41

Labour Party Membership Sinks Under Starmer

14:43

Drought Reveals Remains of Roman-Era Constantine Bridge in the Danube

14:33

English Channel Fiasco: Dozens of ‘Returned’ Migrants Re-enter UK

13:50

One in Seven Germans Considering Emigration Within Five Years

12:40

UPDATE: Afghan Convicted of Lethal Munich Car-Ramming Attack

11:02

Ukraine: Nearly 16,000 Foreign Volunteers Serving in Armed Forces

10:43

Prosecutors Charge Swedish Pensioner Over Islam-Critical Posts

10:16

Crikey! Indications Increasing of Australia-Wide Militarism

07:53

China Ahead in Orbital Data Center Space Race

17:35

Lithuania Warns of Potential ‘False Flag Strike’ by Russia on Baltic States

16:50

Denmark Introduces Stricter Rules To Combat School AI Cheating

15:57

U.S. Doubles Funding for ‘Trump Route’ Project in South Caucasus

14:04

TEC: Into the Lion's Den

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