Month: January 2023

Denmark to Scrap Christian Bank Holiday to Meet NATO Spending

A broad sector of Denmark’s society—including the Lutheran bishops, business communities, Rightist and Leftist opposition parties, trade unions, and others—remain vehemently opposed, for varying reasons, to the government’s scrapping of the public holiday.

The Opposite of Evil

In retracing our steps back from the postmodern precipice, we should remember that evil is not the opposite of good, but its parasite. God’s truth may be highlighted by evil’s un-truth, but never rivalled.

Germany, U.S. Pledge Tank Support

Chancellor Scholz’ hesitation might have served a purpose. Not wanting to be left holding the bag should things turn sour, Scholz got the U.S. on board first.

French Bakers Take to the Streets

The bakers are calling for an emergency tariff shield, valid for all. Others give a more political tone to their protest and question the European common market of electricity.

Sweden Launches International Campaign to Reduce Immigration

“This government was elected, among other things, on a mandate to create a paradigm shift in migration policy. This requires many major changes,” Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) told members of the press.

French Bakers Take to the Streets

French Bakers Take to the Streets

The bakers are calling for an emergency tariff shield, valid for all. Others give a more political tone to their protest and question the European common market of electricity.

January 26, 2023
Sweden Launches International Campaign to Reduce Immigration

Sweden Launches International Campaign to Reduce Immigration

“This government was elected, among other things, on a mandate to create a paradigm shift in migration policy. This requires many major changes,” Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) told members of the press.

January 26, 2023
Erdoğan Calls Early Election Ahead of Tight Leadership Challenge

Erdoğan Calls Early Election Ahead of Tight Leadership Challenge

In spite of his rising unpopularity, will forcing a disunited opposition to an early election be enough to allow Erdoğan to return to office?

January 26, 2023
BlackRock, Ukraine, and the Davos Gang

BlackRock, Ukraine, and the Davos Gang

As for the agenda of those who seek to profit from suffering and misery thanks to their high political and media connections, we must wake up before it is too late.

January 26, 2023
South African Group To Set Up its Own Energy Infrastructure

South African Group To Set Up its Own Energy Infrastructure

In the face of crumbling energy infrastructure, one civil rights group is looking to establish its own power provider.

January 25, 2023
17th March for Life in Paris Against Euthanasia

17th March for Life in Paris Against Euthanasia

For the organizers of the movement, the challenge is to encourage politicians to think differently, and to refuse to encourage the culture of death by instead developing alternative policies that respect life and the dignity of the human person.

January 25, 2023
Finland To Join NATO Without Sweden Amid Quran-Burning Controversy

Finland To Join NATO Without Sweden Amid Quran-Burning Controversy

President Erdoğan has so far blocked both countries’ bids and is using his vetoes as political leverage in an attempt to get Sweden and Finland to meet his demands.

January 25, 2023
Portugal: Support for National-Conservative Chega Reaches All-Time High 

Portugal: Support for National-Conservative Chega Reaches All-Time High 

For those who have been paying moderately close attention to European politics over the past several years—and especially over the last year to six months—Chega’s continued electoral ascendency is indicative of a much broader trend presently taking place across much of Europe.

January 25, 2023
Bank Sells Services and ‘Polyamorous’ Relationships

Bank Sells Services and ‘Polyamorous’ Relationships

ING promotes itself as the “banco no banco,” in English, the ‘not-a-bank bank,’ proclaiming to have broken banking conventions. 

January 25, 2023
Swedish PM Addresses Continued Wave of Bombings, Shootings, and Deaths 

Swedish PM Addresses Continued Wave of Bombings, Shootings, and Deaths 

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) called those responsible for the ever-increasing violence “the domestic terrorists of our time.”

January 25, 2023
Germany Follows U.S. in About Face: Modern Tanks for Ukraine 

Germany Follows U.S. in About Face: Modern Tanks for Ukraine 

Chancellor Scholz may have received guarantees from the U.S. that it would send its M1 Abrams tanks, which persuaded Berlin to follow suit with its Leopards.

January 25, 2023
Cardinal George Pell: Man of the West

Cardinal George Pell: Man of the West

In what turned out to be his last public homily, delivered three days before he died, Cardinal Pell referred to the “heritage of Wojtyla and Ratzinger.” In addition to being courageous teachers of the Catholic faith, they were, Pell said, also “Europeans, examples of men with profound knowledge of the high culture of the Western world.”

January 25, 2023