Though kitsch wears the costume of reality’s vocabulary, it does not describe things as they are. You could only call it good without qualms of conscience after downing a Dionysian dose of expired boxed wine.

Demonstrators called for the government’s resignation, sanctions against Russia to be scrapped, and for the country’s withdrawal from NATO, the EU, UN, and the WHO.

Meloni distinguished herself from her two allies in the centre-right coalition, Matteo Salvini’s Lega and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, who were much more cautious on the subject, by virtue of their relatively good relations with Vladimir Putin in the past.

Aibek Smadiyarov specifically referred to Kazakhstan’s commitment to the territorial integrity of states, while emphasizing the need for dialogue. 

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the end of the gas levy and the introduction of a gas price cap to the tune of €200 billion in loans as a ‘double whammy.’ The minister of finance defiantly called the decision a “crystal clear reply to Putin.”

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.