The process of loosening, trivializing, and ultimately abolishing all the cultural institutions, expectations, and shared meanings of Western culture is the great project of Enlightenment liberalism.

October once more brought us that festival called in the United States Columbus Day, in much of Latin America the

A new mechanism would allow the EU to suspend payments to its member countries if they seem to breach rule-of-law.

Despite the challenges it faces, the U.S. is still the best option to help maintain the age-old balance of national identity and power.

“Ideological pressure within the European Union has become unprecedented”, Viktor Orbán said after the meeting.

Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is not threatening security of gas supply to Germany and the European Union.

The country is raising the number of soldiers on the Belarus border to ‘about 10,000’.

Horst Seehofer, Germany’s interior minister said it was “legitimate” to protect borders.

The country’s Serb-run entity, Republika Srpska, will quit key state institutions to achieve full autonomy.

Benjamin Franklin once said: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” With its new measures, Italy— and, for that matter, the many other European governments pursuing a similar path—is sacrificing a lot of liberty in exchange for hardly any extra safety.

Several EU leaders said they were concerned over Poland’s recent court ruling.

One theory of Napoleon’s death is that he was poisoned by the arsenic in the wallpaper of Longwood House on St. Helena, accidentally or deliberately, as the case might be.