For NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, there is no more doubt. “We stated that Ukraine will become a member, and I expect allies to reiterate that position,” he warned at the start of the two-day meeting. 

“Politics have allowed such parallel societies to form; an unbridled immigration policy combined with lavish social benefits and a lack of self-assertion on the part of locals has provoked such conditions,” MEP Kuhs said.

Advent’s “O Antiphons,” like the snow, return annually, always fresh. They call us to renew the faith that animates Europe’s beating heart.