Month: July 2022

The Bill has Come Due for Germany and Europe

Germany’s excessive energy dependence on Russia is not the outcome of a natural process, but rather the consequence of policies that have been irresponsibly made and artificially imposed.

EU Speeds Up Balkan Expansion

Commissioner Várhelyi specifically mentioned the western Balkans as a target of EU enlargement.

Hungarian Budget Cuts Deficit

The first target of the Hungarian parliament’s adopted budget is to sustain the regulated utilities price scheme, the second is to strengthen its military defense.

EU Gas Rationing Proposal Likely to Burn Up

From Madrid, Spain’s Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera rejected Brussels’ plan as “not the most effective, nor the most efficient, nor the fairest.”

Germany Greenlights Uniper Bailout

According to multiple sources, the Uniper bailout will not prevent a rise in energy prices, specifically on natural gas.

For Evermore: A Visit to the Battlefields at Ypres and the In Flanders Fields Museum

Visiting Ypres today is a somber affair. The surrounding farmlands were the main battlefield, but the town itself was almost totally destroyed by German bombardment in the autumn of 1914. The devastation was so great that Winston Churchill wanted to depopulate the town and transform its environs into a vast memorial site.

Russian Oil Exports Keep Rising

While some media sources claim that Russian exports to Asian markets have fallen, others point in the opposite direction.

Germany Greenlights Uniper Bailout

Germany Greenlights Uniper Bailout

According to multiple sources, the Uniper bailout will not prevent a rise in energy prices, specifically on natural gas.

July 26, 2022
Surrendering the Sahara<br>Part I: Morocco on the March and Spain’s Socialists Surrender

Surrendering the Sahara<br>Part I: Morocco on the March and Spain’s Socialists Surrender

In a remarkable break with its historic policy, reflecting either incompetence or deliberate national sabotage, the Spanish government has accepted Moroccan designs over the Western Sahara.

For Evermore: A Visit to the Battlefields at Ypres and the In Flanders Fields Museum

For Evermore: A Visit to the Battlefields at Ypres and the In Flanders Fields Museum

Visiting Ypres today is a somber affair. The surrounding farmlands were the main battlefield, but the town itself was almost totally destroyed by German bombardment in the autumn of 1914. The devastation was so great that Winston Churchill wanted to depopulate the town and transform its environs into a vast memorial site.

July 25, 2022
Russian Oil Exports Keep Rising

Russian Oil Exports Keep Rising

While some media sources claim that Russian exports to Asian markets have fallen, others point in the opposite direction.

July 25, 2022
Laurent Wauquiez Declines the Presidency of Les Républicains

Laurent Wauquiez Declines the Presidency of Les Républicains

The political line that Laurent Wauquiez wants to promote is a conservative one that stands in opposition to wokism and the revival of the extreme Left with the NUPES.

July 25, 2022
Germany Dumps 3.9 Million Vaccines

Germany Dumps 3.9 Million Vaccines

The health ministry originally feared as many as 10 million doses would have to be thrown out, until it emerged that the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine can be stored for longer than initially thought, downgrading the estimated waste to 3 million doses.

July 25, 2022
Between Sensitivity and Beauty: Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo

Between Sensitivity and Beauty: Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo

Hypersensitivity forces beauty into a politically-correct straitjacket. It is hardly surprising that such straitjackets kill beauty, for what cannot breathe, cannot live.

Putin and the End of History

Putin and the End of History

What Putin has seen is this collapse of courage in the West, an inability to protect itself from external existential threats and a peculiar, weak slavishness to liberal culture, whilst it erodes the values of traditional societies.

Director of Documenta Resigns Following Antisemitism Scandal

Director of Documenta Resigns Following Antisemitism Scandal

The resignation of the managing director of documenta may be seen as a sacrifice to calm the waters, but this requires the media to ignore the countless other scandals taking place at the art exhibition.

July 24, 2022
Fire Liars: Spain’s Climate-Change Laws and Industry to Blame

Fire Liars: Spain’s Climate-Change Laws and Industry to Blame

Despite clear evidence to the contrary, politicians continue to misrepresent the source of Spain’s fires as the consequence of climate change.

EU and Russia Play Cat and Mouse with Gas and Gold

EU and Russia Play Cat and Mouse with Gas and Gold

The flagship measure is a ban on Russian gold imports, to align EU sanctions with those of the G7, which decided to sanction Russian gold last month.

July 24, 2022
Ukraine’s Request for Payment Deferral Accepted

Ukraine’s Request for Payment Deferral Accepted

The debt relief comes as Ukraine is facing $1.2 billion of debt payments due at the beginning of September, and a serious shortfall in cash flow—due to the Russian invasion that began at the end of February.

July 24, 2022