Month: December 2022

Literature that Defied the Nazi Regime

Scholdt pays tribute to both the aesthetic achievements and the courage of writers who were persecuted and ostracized during the Nazi era. He also considers the significance of their resistance in the Nazi years for our own tumultuous times.

Central Banks Raise Interest Rates Again

The Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank both foresee having to continue raising interest rates significantly to roll back inflation to 2%.

Japan Approves Doubling of Military Spending

This change for Japan, which had renounced the right to wage war and had adopted a stance of military non-involvement in international disputes, illustrates how much the geopolitical reality has changed in recent years.

More Kicks to Arthur Bryant’s Corpse

More Kicks to Arthur Bryant’s Corpse

Through scarcely credible naïveté, Robinson seems to believe that he has disposed of Bryant’s ethical pretensions. His hubris calls to mind those self-destructive British Labour parliamentarians who elicited the jibe that, when granted a choice of weapons, they always selected boomerangs.

December 18, 2022
Hungary: An Economic Assessment

Hungary: An Economic Assessment

The best way to understand the thought leadership behind Hungary’s economic success is to examine the 2016 tax reform, which created perhaps the simplest and most ingenious small-business tax in the world.

December 17, 2022
Romania: AUR Opposed Parliament’s Gender Declaration

Romania: AUR Opposed Parliament’s Gender Declaration

Explicit support for “gender representation quotas” was left in the final declaration, a topic that will soon ignite heated debates in the Romanian political scene.

December 17, 2022
How the European Union Wants To Encourage Surrogacy

How the European Union Wants To Encourage Surrogacy

The ethical struggle is clouded by an institutional issue: according to the treaty on the functioning of the European Union, measures concerning the family are not the responsibility of Europe. Each state is supposed to decide sovereignly in this matter.

December 17, 2022
Paris Conference To Help Ukraine Through Winter

Paris Conference To Help Ukraine Through Winter

The Russian army has been specifically targeting energy infrastructures. The aim of the conference was to put in place practical and concrete aid in the sectors identified as being the most in need.

December 17, 2022
Chancellor Scholz: Economic Cooperation With Russia Can Resume Once Ukraine War Ends

Chancellor Scholz: Economic Cooperation With Russia Can Resume Once Ukraine War Ends

Scholz, despite warning that Germany is preparing for another round of sanctions, left the door for future economic cooperation with Russia open once the war is brought to an end.

December 17, 2022
German Study: Ukrainians More Likely to Integrate, Pursue Employment, Compared to Other Migrants

German Study: Ukrainians More Likely to Integrate, Pursue Employment, Compared to Other Migrants

The study revealed 80% of Ukrainian refugees are women, 72% have university degrees, and nearly one-fifth of those who are working age already have jobs.

December 17, 2022
Kosovo Seeks Formal Entrance to EU Bloc

Kosovo Seeks Formal Entrance to EU Bloc

Kosovo is the last Western Balkan country to apply for EU membership after Brussels recognized Bosnia’s candidate status earlier in the week and the leadership ratified it on Thursday.

December 17, 2022
Not Everything is Political: An Interview with <strong>Guillaume Travers</strong>

Not Everything is Political: An Interview with <strong>Guillaume Travers</strong>

Political friendship comes from the temporary alignment of interests between two peoples. This same principle applies to political hostility. When that is understood, it becomes clear that today’s foe may be tomorrow’s friend.

December 16, 2022
Air Pollution Linked to One Million Stillbirths

Air Pollution Linked to One Million Stillbirths

Air pollution particles have been associated with increased miscarriages, premature births, low birth weights, and disturbed brain development. 

December 16, 2022
Berlin: District Governed by Left-Liberals Removes Christian Cross from Playground

Berlin: District Governed by Left-Liberals Removes Christian Cross from Playground

“Since the applications used up to now have been interpreted religiously by some citizens, we decided without further ado to have the elements replaced,” a spokeswoman for the district said.

December 16, 2022
Ipswich Nativity Scene Desecrated

Ipswich Nativity Scene Desecrated

While the incident occurred on church grounds and not inside the church itself, the destruction fits a large pattern of attacks on houses of worship witnessed across Europe.

December 16, 2022