Almost five points now separate Meloni from her rival, Enrico Letta, with Meloni ahead.

Ahead of parliamentary elections, Facebook and TikTok have blocked Gustav Kasselstrand, the leader of Alternativ för Sverige (AfS), and Evilina Hahne, one of the party’s Riksdag candidates, from accessing their social media accounts.

Vladimir Putin predicted the demise of the West and the continued global power shift towards Asia. When asked about Ukraine, he said that Russia has “not lost anything and will not lose anything.”

Heating one’s home and water to more than 19°C and 60°C, respectively, may result in daily fines of up to 3,000 Swiss Francs and prison sentences up to three years.

The European Conservative will be covering the Swedish election, Sunday, September 11th, live on Twitter.

Listening to pop music—like the rest of modernity—marks an education in unreality, which is no education at all. Folk music, on the other hand, is invariably rooted in the concrete reality of life.

At the EU level, environmental policies are mostly being continued as if there were no Russian invasion of Ukraine or large-scale energy crisis.

Despite promises made in 2017 to expand the police force, anecdotal evidence suggests that the quality of new police officers has declined.

Reports have been confirmed that Russia is seeking hefty restocking of its armament from North Korea.

Greek Foreign Minister Dendias voiced concern that the fraught state of Greco-Turkish relations might weaken NATO integrity.

Does Germany anticipate an insolvency wave this fall? The minister of economy says “No,” adding that companies might “stop production for some time.”

EU member states were blindsided by von der Leyen’s statements, issued a day before they were all scheduled to meet to discuss block-wide proposals to lower energy prices.