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Europe Unmasked

18:22

Poland Welcomes U.S. War Loan

17:21

Jail Sentences for Nine Azerbaijanis in Blogger Murder Plot

16:20

U.S. Foundation Tipped Off France About Lyhanna’s Suspected Killer

16:10

Kallas Under Fire Over Israel ‘Apartheid’ Remarks

14:51

EU Diplomatic Service Turf War Erupts

13:51

Sierra Leone’s First Lady: London Property Seized

12:11

Migrant Pair Guilty of Attacking Dundee Girls

10:26

UPDATED: Sierra Leone Receives First Flight of U.S. Deportees Under New Third-Country Deal

06:23

UPDATED: Belfast ‘Beheading’ Case: Suspect Threatened To Kill Hospital Employee

21:06

Trump Warns of New Offensive Against Iran

18:30

Reporting Restrictions Lifted as Pakistani Rapist Jailed

17:43

Crans-Montana Fire: Bereaved and Injured Seek Murder Charges Against Bar Owners

16:57

Russian Republic Disrupted During Drone Warfare

16:02

BREAKING: Hungarian President Turns to Constitutional Court Over Attempts To Remove Him

15:34

TEC: Into the Lion's Den

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Analysis

The ECB Is Already Behind the Inflation Curve

The European Central Bank’s latest rate hike is built on an inflation forecast that's likely to prove far too modest.

Editor's Pick

COMMENTARY

When Governments Stop Listening, Societies Start Burning

The litany of gross injustices keeps growing, but the elites care more about how we talk about it—or don’t.

Editor's Pick

Analysis

One Month Before the Verdict: Rassemblement National at a Crossroads

On July 7th, the outcome of Marine Le Pen’s trial will determine not only the RN’s candidate for 2027 but also the party’s political line.

Editor's Pick

Analysis

Europe Is Splitting Into a Two-Tier Economy

While the core countries, centered around the French-German-Italian triad, struggle with a stagnant economy, outliers attract business investments and in return get strong GDP growth.

Editor's Pick

Analysis

The War Before the War: Europe’s Civilizational Crisis Began Long Before Ukraine

A society can survive temporary economic hardship. It can recover from military defeat. It can rebuild cities destroyed by war. What it cannot easily recover from is the loss of civilizational self-confidence.

NEWS

Sovereigntists Ramp Up Fight Against Brussels as Migration Pact Takes Effect

Patriotic European leaders argue that the new system limits national sovereignty, institutionalizes relocations, and penalizes states that refuse to participate in the solidarity mechanism.

NEWS

Italian School Punished Pro-Italy Banner but Allowed Palestine Flags

Footage and student testimony published by an Italian newspaper have raised questions about how one high school applies its rules on political expression.

NEWS

“Guardians of Democracy” Greens Join Effort To Block AfD Congress

Trade union Ver.di, Die Linke politicians, and activist groups are mobilising supporters for mass protests as police prepare the largest security operation in Thuringia’s history.

NEWS

“It’s No Longer a Belgian City”: Viral Documentary Examines Brussels

In a 40-minute documentary, an American YouTuber explored the Belgian capital, speaking to residents about immigration, crime, and integration.

NEWS

Sweden Democrats Push for Nationwide Hijab Ban

The proposal would extend existing restrictions beyond burqas and niqabs, affecting a much larger group of Muslim women.

NEWS

Hungary: “Militant Rule of Law” Feared as Report Says Constitutional Court May Be Targeted

The Magyar government might move against Hungary’s top court that stands in the way of attempts to upset the constitutional balance of power.

Media

Commentary

COMMENTARY

When Governments Stop Listening, Societies Start Burning

The litany of gross injustices keeps growing, but the elites care more about how we talk about it—or don’t.

COMMENTARY

Genies in Medicine Bottles: The Rise of Islamic Public Health Exorcisms

The problem is not European society discriminating against culturally irreconcilable people but pandering to them, even spending taxpayer cash on training public health officials how to treat foreign lunatics who think they have goblins living in their necks.

COMMENTARY

Iceland’s Foreign Minister Fears a “Brexit Moment”

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.

COMMENTARY

When Will the Woke Crowd Leave the Elgin Marbles Alone?

The Elgin Marbles debate is about far more than the marbles themselves. It is about the ludicrous concept that art and culture should be tribalised.

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

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.

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.

Analysis

The ECB Is Already Behind the Inflation Curve

The European Central Bank’s latest rate hike is built on an inflation forecast that's likely to prove far too modest.

Analysis

One Month Before the Verdict: Rassemblement National at a Crossroads

On July 7th, the outcome of Marine Le Pen’s trial will determine not only the RN’s candidate for 2027 but also the party’s political line.

Analysis

Europe Is Splitting Into a Two-Tier Economy

While the core countries, centered around the French-German-Italian triad, struggle with a stagnant economy, outliers attract business investments and in return get strong GDP growth.

Analysis

The War Before the War: Europe’s Civilizational Crisis Began Long Before Ukraine

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.

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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Poland Welcomes U.S. War Loan

17:21

Jail Sentences for Nine Azerbaijanis in Blogger Murder Plot

16:20

U.S. Foundation Tipped Off France About Lyhanna’s Suspected Killer

16:10

Kallas Under Fire Over Israel ‘Apartheid’ Remarks

14:51

EU Diplomatic Service Turf War Erupts

13:51

Sierra Leone’s First Lady: London Property Seized

12:11

Migrant Pair Guilty of Attacking Dundee Girls

10:26

UPDATED: Sierra Leone Receives First Flight of U.S. Deportees Under New Third-Country Deal

06:23

UPDATED: Belfast ‘Beheading’ Case: Suspect Threatened To Kill Hospital Employee

21:06

Trump Warns of New Offensive Against Iran

18:30

Reporting Restrictions Lifted as Pakistani Rapist Jailed

17:43

Crans-Montana Fire: Bereaved and Injured Seek Murder Charges Against Bar Owners

16:57

Russian Republic Disrupted During Drone Warfare

16:02

BREAKING: Hungarian President Turns to Constitutional Court Over Attempts To Remove Him

15:34

TEC: Into the Lion's Den

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