Month: April 2023

NGOs Block Public Disclosure in EU Congo Sex Probe

UNICEF is among the NGOs attempting to block the disclosure of files relating to the exploitation of women and children in the Congo amid reports that aid workers impregnated 26 women.

Let Us Pray

The right to freedom of religion and belief, enshrined in international law, includes the right to manifest one’s belief both in private and public. It is not for politicians or the government to dictate what words we direct toward God or to interpret religious scripture.

Aux Barricades: An Interview With a French Pension Protester

A symptom of the French penchant to riot or part of a broader collapse of the Fifth Republic? The European Conservative speaks to a participant of recent anti-Macron pension demonstrations to examine the movement’s causes, character, and future.

Parisians Vote To Ban E-Scooters

The results are unanimous, regardless of the political stripe of the arrondissement, Right or Left: scooters have been voted out.

EU Clarifies Insect Labelling Rules

The issue of bug eating has become an attack point for European populists, while advocates extoll the benefits of insect consumption to the European Green Deal.

‘European Values’ Threaten European Security

The problem with legal unification in Europe is that it follows an agenda marketed as the protection of ‘European values.’ The question is: what are these values and who decides them?

Bulgaria Facing High-Stakes Elections on Sunday

Bulgaria Facing High-Stakes Elections on Sunday

With the center-right and center-left head-to-head in the polls, the most likely winners will be the socialists again, with the shadowy president at the helm.

April 1, 2023
Finland’s Meloni Moment? Nationalists Hopeful Ahead of Elections

Finland’s Meloni Moment? Nationalists Hopeful Ahead of Elections

The Finns Party, which is in a tight three-way race, aims to capitalise on rising dissatisfaction directed at the ruling Social Democrats over immigration and inflation, as Finnish voters head to the polls this Sunday.

April 1, 2023
Renew Calls for Stronger Cordon Sanitaire After 2024

Renew Calls for Stronger Cordon Sanitaire After 2024

Centrist parties need a coalition pact, the Renew leader said, that would guarantee them top EU positions and prevent any right-wing alliance.

April 1, 2023
Forgotten Classics: On Reading Louis De Wohl’s <em>The Spear</em> During Holy Week

Forgotten Classics: On Reading Louis De Wohl’s <em>The Spear</em> During Holy Week

The Spear serves as a lectio divina of sorts, that is, as an opportunity to imagine oneself in the action of the Holy Scriptures.

April 1, 2023