Solar Utopias and Heavy Metal
From Tommasso Campanella’s City of the Sun, to modern ‘solarpunk,’ the sun has historically been linked to utopian thought-experiments in fiction.
Carlos Perona Calvete
April 29, 2023
China is using industrial food waste to manufacture biofuels to feed the demand for biodiesel created by EU regulation, driving up food prices in the meantime.
At our event, three excellent thinkers honored the memory of Sir Roger Scruton, without whom modern conservatism and the future of European civilization is unimaginable.
Although Prime Minister-elect Petteri Orpo admitted that considerable differences exist among the four potential coalition members, he is confident that an agreement can be reached to form a government.
After weeks of intense negotiations, five EU countries will lift their earlier bans on Ukrainian agricultural imports.
The just-passed reform reintroduces a double criminal scale to punish more serious sexual crimes perpetrated using violence, intimidation, or with the victim’s will annulled, for example, by drugs.
Emmanuel Macron is not the only one to be greeted with the sound of pans when he travels. All his ministers, one after the other, have also had that painful experience.
An honest sense of one’s own failings and shortcomings is part of what makes levity possible. One of the best books I know for inculcating humility through humor is Jerome K. Jerome’s novel, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).
Similar to the Digital Services Act and GDPR, the AI Act attempts to imprint the EU’s value system on technologies not yet created and scarcely understood.
The closer relationship with the EU that the war has brought is also a testing ground for how a future Ukraine membership in the common market will affect current member states and the common market.
‘Small-c’ conservatives might wonder why the Tory government is so determined to remove trafficking victims from the country, given its immigration record.
The excess of vaccines procured and the exorbitant amount of money involved in the deal have many officials across the EU asking questions.
Lacking a majority, Élisabeth Borne does not intend to reproduce a passage by force of the bill and prefers to postpone the debate.
