Month: May 2022

EU: The End of the Unanimity Rule?

The debate comes at a particularly sensitive time, when the question of applying new sanctions against Russia is coming up against the objections of three European states, including Hungary. The proposal to generalise qualified majority voting is far from unanimous among European states.

The Rise of the Socialist Welfare State

In practice, the merger between mainstream Keynesian economics and welfare-state policy was exactly what drove most of Europe into its current state of stagnation.

G7 Promises Russian Oil Embargo

Only now, as it becomes clear that Russia is not buckling under the previous sanctions, have countries begun to put the most serious sanctions on the table: those that touch on Russia’s energy empire.

Hungary: The Foil to EU-Wide Oil Embargo

Fresh sanctions targeting Russian oil have been a source of worry for landlocked EU member states, such as Hungary. Ironing out a deal has therefore been fraught with hurdles.

The EU’s Crisis of Faith is Failing Victims of Persecution

This was an opportune moment for the EU to recommit to the protection of freedom of religion or belief by reinforcing the existing EU instruments aimed at doing so and highlighting cases concerning minorities where this right has been violated. Yet, it did the exact opposite.

Feverish Episodes of Nazi Reverie

As a work of serial military fabulism, Ezquerra’s book is an interesting cultural artifact. I laughed more than once at the author’s sheer gall, but Ezquerra himself is an unpleasant figure. A literary liar is bad enough; a Nazi literary liar seems even more obscene.

Norway Pledges More Natural Gas Output

News of the Norwegian production increase is expected to cool off the price hike that followed proposals for new European sanctions against Russia.

Africa Hardest Hit by Food Scarcity, UN Reports

Africa Hardest Hit by Food Scarcity, UN Reports

In 2021, Africa was the continent that suffered the most from a lack of basic sustenance, and the only continent in the UN study with catastrophic levels of food scarcity, the highest category.

May 7, 2022
Dr. Leslyn Lewis: Shaking up Canada’s Conservative Party

Dr. Leslyn Lewis: Shaking up Canada’s Conservative Party

I have thought since her first run that Dr. Leslyn Lewis is a breath of fresh air—the outsider candidate that the Ottawa bubble and the Conservative Party needs. The Harper-clones have been at the top for a long time, but it is past time for a facelift.

Soros and Euro-Atlantic Globalists Mobilize to Bring Down Musk’s Twitter

Soros and Euro-Atlantic Globalists Mobilize to Bring Down Musk’s Twitter

Desperately afraid of losing their ability to control mass information flows, Soros, left-liberal EU member states, and company are urging multinational advertisers to abandon Musk’s Twitter.

May 6, 2022
ECB Normalizes Monetary Policy

ECB Normalizes Monetary Policy

In its press release, the ECB reports that bank credit to euro-area residents grew at 5.9% in March.

May 6, 2022
Ukrainian Civilians Suffering Fuel Shortages

Ukrainian Civilians Suffering Fuel Shortages

The fuel shortage is an additional strain on Ukrainians already under fire from Russia, many of whom are travelling either to return to homes they abandoned in the initial fear and shock of the Russian invasion, or to seek safety and shelter in another part of the country.

May 6, 2022
New EU Sanctions Target Russian Oil and Orthodox Church

New EU Sanctions Target Russian Oil and Orthodox Church

Experts warn that cutting off Russian oil imports will increase the price of gasoline for European consumers. They also caution that delayed onset of the sanctions will only give Russia time to sell its oil elsewhere before losing European business, weakening the effects of the sanctions.

May 6, 2022
Insecurity Mounts in Spanish North Africa

Insecurity Mounts in Spanish North Africa

The presence of such weapons in Ceuta, combined with the ever-looming threat of a massive influx of illegal migrants, contributes to a state of ongoing tension in a city upon which Morocco appears to have designs.

Spanish Pegasus Revelations Add to EU Spyware Concerns

Spanish Pegasus Revelations Add to EU Spyware Concerns

Suspecting that the five cases of spying on Catalans revealed by WhatsApp only scratched the surface, Elies Campo turned to The Citizen Lab, where he led the investigation that discovered approximately sixty more cases of spying with Pegasus.

May 6, 2022
The ‘Big Government’ Cultural  Conservatism of Central Europe

The ‘Big Government’ Cultural Conservatism of Central Europe

The legacy of 20th century history has left the Right in Central Europe questioning what we are meant to conserve after 40 years of communism. Our task is not so much to preserve traditions, but to reawaken them and to establish new ones. This approach is more reactionary; Central European conservatism is combative, because it has to be.

May 6, 2022
VOX MEP Buxadé Excoriates Globalist Parliamentarians in Strasbourg

VOX MEP Buxadé Excoriates Globalist Parliamentarians in Strasbourg

“Centuries ago the elites took to the battlefield. Now they hide in the Tower of Babel and send Europeans to the slaughterhouse,” VOX MEP Jorge Buxadé said as he excoriated an assembly of globalist parliamentarians in Strasbourg.

May 5, 2022
Sweden: Nearly 3 in 10 Want to Ban ‘Offensive’ Demonstrations After Easter Riots

Sweden: Nearly 3 in 10 Want to Ban ‘Offensive’ Demonstrations After Easter Riots

The reverberations of Paludan’s distasteful, but legal, Koran burnings have many Swedes wondering whether freedom of expression and multiculturalism can truly exist alongside one another in a single society.

May 5, 2022
EU Triggers Process to Withhold Funds from Hungary for “Rule-of-Law” Violations

EU Triggers Process to Withhold Funds from Hungary for “Rule-of-Law” Violations

Following Viktor Orbán’s victory at the Hungarian elections, the EU has launched its “budget conditionality procedure” which could lead to EU funds being withheld from Hungary. While Hungarian opposition leaders welcome this move, the government speaks of a “witch hunt.”

May 5, 2022