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The president’s funding plan for Poland’s defense buildup removes the risk of Brussels holding funds hostage if they dislike the country’s required 'progress reports.'

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Europe Unmasked

15:02

Austria’s Political Map Redrawn: Right-Wing Populist FPÖ Confidently Leads in Polls

14:04

Swedish Judo Club Accused of Discrimination After Muslim Children Decline to Bow

12:15

Austrian Schoolteachers Concerned By Ramadan Peer Pressure

11:57

Iranian Women Footballers Defect to Australia

11:31

Finnish Social Democrats Oppose Nuclear Weapons Law Reform

11:19

Oil Prices Ease as U.S. Claims Iran War is Nearing Completion

10:55

Tehran Threatens to Halt All Oil Shipments if Attacks Continue

10:27

Trump Discusses Ukraine War, Iran Conflict in Phone Call With Putin

10:24

Scotland: Assisted Suicide Bill Amendment Proposes Lower Jail Term for Coercion

10:15

Trump to Australia: ‘Grant Asylum to Iranian Women’s Soccer Players’

21:25

Brussels/Strasbourg Lawmakers Poised to Back Tougher Migration Rules

20:55

Cyprus Condemns Turkish F-16 Deployment

18:50

Marco Rubio Labels Iran a Global Threat

18:17

Macron Orders Major Naval Deployment to Middle East

17:16

TEC: Into the Lion's Den

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Opinion

Editor's Pick

Analysis

Europe Needs Tax Competition

The EU's blacklist of low-tax jurisdictions is growing. Brussels goes out of its way to protect its high-tax cartel.

Editor's Pick

COMMENTARY

Britain’s Christian Political Arms Race

The launch of Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain party started a civil war with Reform UK for the loyalty of an emerging Christian voting bloc.

Editor's Pick

Analysis

The German Synodal Path Opens New Difficult Phase for the Catholic Church

What is occurring in Germany is a true attempt at ecclesiological subversion.

Editor's Pick

COMMENTARY

Ancient Greece, Gender Studies, and Social Media

A brief history of a controversy surrounding X and the obsessions of the academic Left.

Editor's Pick

COMMENTARY

Theatre of the Absurd: Audiences Assaulting Fictional ‘Nazis’—On Stage and Off

Repeatedly and inaccurately—on stage, on-screen, and in the media—calling people ‘fascists’ who are in fact just perfectly ordinary people who happen to think differently can provoke unpleasant real-life consequences.

NEWS

EU Lawmakers Back Tougher Deportation Rules for Illegal Migrants

The reform would allow longer detention for migrants who refuse to cooperate with return procedures and introduce deportation orders recognised across the Schengen area.

NEWS

Western Balkans Nations Voice Frustration Over EU Accession Delays

Speakers at the Budapest Balkans Forum warned that the EU’s enlargement policy lacks credibility and clarity.

NEWS

Paris Women’s Day: The Wrong Fight

The more intense the ideological struggles become, the less women are defended.

NEWS

France Prepares Mission To Open Strait of Hormuz as Oil Prices Surge

As fighting in the Gulf intensifies, energy markets are jolted, and Europe faces renewed fears of rising gas and electricity prices.

NEWS

Brussels Ignores Push Back on EU Expansion—Wants to Move Even Faster

Kaja Kallas insists enlargement remains the bloc’s “most successful foreign policy,” even as key capitals question plans to move faster on new members.

NEWS

Europe Becomes World’s Biggest Importer of Arms

At the same time, Germany has overtaken China to become the fourth largest arms exporter globally.

Media

Commentary

COMMENTARY

Britain’s Christian Political Arms Race

The launch of Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain party started a civil war with Reform UK for the loyalty of an emerging Christian voting bloc.

COMMENTARY

Ancient Greece, Gender Studies, and Social Media

A brief history of a controversy surrounding X and the obsessions of the academic Left.

COMMENTARY

Theatre of the Absurd: Audiences Assaulting Fictional ‘Nazis’—On Stage and Off

COMMENTARY

Germany’s Southern Election Test

The upcoming elections reveal a familiar pattern of German politics: the cordon sanitaire ends up strengthening the political Left.

COMMENTARY

ProtectEU Is the EU’s Latest Trojan Horse Against Freedom

While appearing reasonable and necessary when taken individually, these measures collectively build an ecosystem of repression that East Germany’s Stasi could only have dreamt of.

COMMENTARY

Sánchez’ Military Veto Against the United States Was a Bluff

American planes continue operating in Spain, and the Spanish Navy is sending its best frigate to a war zone.

COMMENTARY

The Systematic Erosion of Christian Serbian Heritage in Kosovo

155 Christian churches and monasteries were destroyed or severely damaged between June 1999 and March 2004.

COMMENTARY

Is It Still Legal To Criticize Gender Ideology in Canada?

After a British Columbia pensioner is fined $750,000 for saying there are only two sexes, British comedian John Cleese cancels his tour dates.

COMMENTARY

Judicial War in Poland: Nawrocki Pushes Back as Tusk Government Cries “Polexit”

The Polish president has unveiled a sweeping bill to shield judicial appointments from political and judicial challenge.

COMMENTARY

Fear of the Domestic Mujahideen Is Suffocating Britain’s Foreign Policy

If hostile states believe Britain can be deterred by the threat of domestic unrest, they will exploit that perception, utilising communities which have failed to fully integrate into British society.

Analysis

Europe Needs Tax Competition

The EU's blacklist of low-tax jurisdictions is growing. Brussels goes out of its way to protect its high-tax cartel.

Analysis

The German Synodal Path Opens New Difficult Phase for the Catholic Church

What is occurring in Germany is a true attempt at ecclesiological subversion.

Analysis

EU Commission Almost Admits: Europe Stuck in Industrial Poverty

The European Commission's report on the Industrial Accelerator Act recognizes some of Europe's economic problems. Unfortunately, that's where the good stuff ends.

Analysis

ECB President Candidly Admits Europe Has Big Problems

Christine Lagarde is probably the first major European policymaker to speak openly about why the EU is falling behind globally. But her plan for fixing the problem falls way short.

Analysis

Macron Puts Forward Shared ‘Advanced Nuclear Deterrence’ to Mask His Impotence

The French president is redoubling his efforts to give the impression that he remains at the centre of the international stage, but in doing so, he is selling off French military sovereignty.

Analysis

Israel, Iran, and the Return of Hard Power: Europe Cannot Remain a Spectator

When aerial systems associated with Middle Eastern conflict physically reach the territory of an EU member state, the distinction between external instability and internal security begins to erode.

Analysis

Finland Wakes Up With a Fiscal Hangover

Pressured by the EU on excessive budget deficits, Helsinki needs to rethink the very purpose of its government.

Analysis

EU Commission’s Support for “My Voice, My Choice” Raises Serious Legal Concerns

Any efforts to promote abortion at the EU level violate its constitutional boundaries.

Analysis

Who Controls Tariffs? Inside the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision

Contrary to what seems to be the prevailing wisdom, this was not a universal knockdown of Trump's use of tariffs.

Analysis

‘Taxman’ Lives On: 36% on Money You Haven’t Made

From California to Norway, governments show reckless creativity in their pursuit of more revenue.

Interviews

Interview

“Many common-sense solutions have been expelled from Europe’s political system”—Atlantic Council Expert Andrew Peek

Transatlantic tensions increasingly stem from conflicting views on democracy and sovereignty, Peek says.

Interview

“The left wing continues to fight ghosts from the past so as not to look at the monsters of the present”—FdI Youth Wing’s Maicol Busilacchi

“The best response to the violence is not hatred, but the daily courage of those who continue to believe that ideas are fought with other ideas. Never with violence.”

Interview

“I came to the West because I wanted the West, not a multicultural bazaar”—UnHerd U.S. Editor Sohrab Ahmari

“Europe will only be able to manage its relationship with Muslim communities more effectively if it honestly acknowledges its own Christian identity.”

Interview

“What is happening in Afghanistan is gender apartheid. We must recognize that this is a crime against humanity”—Activist Marzieh Hamidi

“The Taliban were terrorists yesterday, they are terrorists today, and they will be terrorists tomorrow. There is no peace with terrorists.”

Interview

“The targeting of Christian liberty stems from a desire to erase distinct identities”—Christodoulos Molyvas, Greek NIKI Party

“Replacing a population is not a solution. It is the admission of a nation’s defeat.”

Interview

“We don’t want symbols, we want concrete integration”—North Macedonia Minister of Digitalization Stefan Andonovski

“The Balkans should not be treated as Europe’s backyard but as a strategically central position.”

Interview

“I have seen what the Mullahs’ regime has exported to Iraq, and that has made my country what it is today”—Iraqi Activist Sarah Idan

“Iran has a better chance of being liberated than Iraq, because I see that most Iranians are fighting.”

Interview

“Saving democracy through censorship is a dangerous contradiction”—ADF International’s Paul Coleman

“No one denies that disinformation exists. The problem is that, in this case, the remedy may be worse than the disease.”

Interview

“It is the most delicate moment in the Islamic Republic’s history, and they are aware of this”—Historian Javier Gil Guerrero

“All this rhetoric that frightens the West so much, about a country willing to sacrifice itself and unleash an apocalypse if attacked, is nothing more than a strategy.”

Interview

“Draghi presents federalisation not as a political choice, but as a historical necessity”—former MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski

“What is striking in Draghi’s speech is what is absent: any reference to democratic consent.”

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15:02

Austria’s Political Map Redrawn: Right-Wing Populist FPÖ Confidently Leads in Polls

14:04

Swedish Judo Club Accused of Discrimination After Muslim Children Decline to Bow

12:15

Austrian Schoolteachers Concerned By Ramadan Peer Pressure

11:57

Iranian Women Footballers Defect to Australia

11:31

Finnish Social Democrats Oppose Nuclear Weapons Law Reform

11:19

Oil Prices Ease as U.S. Claims Iran War is Nearing Completion

10:55

Tehran Threatens to Halt All Oil Shipments if Attacks Continue

10:27

Trump Discusses Ukraine War, Iran Conflict in Phone Call With Putin

10:24

Scotland: Assisted Suicide Bill Amendment Proposes Lower Jail Term for Coercion

10:15

Trump to Australia: ‘Grant Asylum to Iranian Women’s Soccer Players’

21:25

Brussels/Strasbourg Lawmakers Poised to Back Tougher Migration Rules

20:55

Cyprus Condemns Turkish F-16 Deployment

18:50

Marco Rubio Labels Iran a Global Threat

18:17

Macron Orders Major Naval Deployment to Middle East

17:16

TEC: Into the Lion's Den

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