For the Italians, there is no ‘fascism’ attached to Giorgia Meloni. Her coalition is centre-right, full stop. On the other side of the Alps, the repeated use of the word ‘fascist’ dispenses with any nuanced analysis; few articles actually look at Meloni’s programme.

It is time to break the unproductive loop between impatience, single-issue rejection of remarkable candidates, and the political status quo. The NatCon Statement of Principles is a first, major step in that direction.

The raids against the AfD, Germany’s sole conservative opposition party, come as it has witnessed its popular support skyrocket amid growing discontent over the government’s self-crippling sanctions against Russia.

Church attendance among Dutch Catholics has fallen from 80% in the 1950s to only 3%, leading to increasing numbers of church closures. The diocese of Amsterdam will close more than 80% of its churches within the next 10 years, most of them in rural areas.

Across the sector, farms are warning that rising costs without compensatory market prices are bringing them to ruin, making it difficult to continue farming, and risking food production.

If the election were held this Sunday, AfD would garner 27% of the total vote in the eastern federal states, placing them one percentage point ahead of the CDU.

After formally signing the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson into the Russian Federation, Putin promised that strikes on Russia’s new territories would be viewed as acts of aggression.

The law will prohibit any activity, deemed to ‘interfere’ with a woman’s decision to have an abortion, from taking place within 100 metres of facilities that offer the procedure. 

Despite its ties with Russia, Serbia announced it won’t recognise the results of the referendums held in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine. Serbia’s own problems with Kosovarian independence, as well as warnings from the EU, play into that decision.