Month: April 2023

UK Tories Clash Over Illegal Immigration Bill

‘Small-c’ conservatives might wonder why the Tory government is so determined to remove trafficking victims from the country, given its immigration record.

French Immigration Law To Be Postponed

Lacking a majority, Élisabeth Borne does not intend to reproduce a passage by force of the bill and prefers to postpone the debate.

Maxing Out The Race Card

Diane Abbott is merely the culmination of decades’ worth of identity politics— Labour’s stock-in-trade—for which she has long been the poster girl.

De-Dollarization: Argentina To Pay for Chinese Imports in Yuan

De-Dollarization: Argentina To Pay for Chinese Imports in Yuan

Argentina, which has Ibero-America’s third-largest economy, is the latest of many key geopolitical actors to take steps to reduce its dependence on the U.S. dollar.

April 28, 2023
Senior EU Official Issues Warning to Twitter over Moderation Failings

Senior EU Official Issues Warning to Twitter over Moderation Failings

Věra Jourová voiced alarm over the “unregulated” and “aggressive” Russian “propaganda” circulating on Elon Musk’s social media platform.

April 28, 2023
Xi Jinping Holds First Call With Zelensky Since Russia’s Invasion

Xi Jinping Holds First Call With Zelensky Since Russia’s Invasion

Beijing will send an envoy to Ukraine to help work towards a “political settlement” to the ongoing conflict.

April 28, 2023
Russian Fighters Intercepted by NATO Over Baltic Sea

Russian Fighters Intercepted by NATO Over Baltic Sea

This is the second time Russian jets came too close to violating NATO airspace their transponders shut down recently, the Luftwaffe stated.

April 28, 2023
“We are on the right track”: An interview with <strong>Francesco Paolo Capone</strong>

“We are on the right track”: An interview with <strong>Francesco Paolo Capone</strong>

“Throughout the world, work has lost its centrality: finance, real estate, land income, and consumption have formed the fragile foundations of an unsustainable economic system.”

April 28, 2023
Maxing Out The Race Card

Maxing Out The Race Card

Diane Abbott is merely the culmination of decades’ worth of identity politics— Labour’s stock-in-trade—for which she has long been the poster girl.

April 27, 2023
Green Fuels To Become Mandatory in 2025

Green Fuels To Become Mandatory in 2025

A dispute over whether an artificial demand for biofuels would impact food prices had delayed the deal, with some cautioning that the infrastructure in place to produce green fuels was not up to scratch.

April 27, 2023
You Can’t Put Filters on a Cow’s Chimney

You Can’t Put Filters on a Cow’s Chimney

As part of the Green Deal, the EU Commission wants to expand the Industrial Emissions Directive—the main EU regulation for pollutant emissions from industrial installations—to include cattle farms.

April 27, 2023
WHO Warns of High Risk of Biohazard in Sudan Amid Fighting

WHO Warns of High Risk of Biohazard in Sudan Amid Fighting

Fighters, allegedly from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, have occupied the laboratory that stores samples of deadly diseases like measles, polio, and cholera.

April 27, 2023
Europe’s Energy Disarmament? <em>The European Conservative</em> Panel Ponders EU Green Deal

Europe’s Energy Disarmament? <em>The European Conservative</em> Panel Ponders EU Green Deal

A panel discussion, hosted by The European Conservative, invited experts including climate sceptic MEP Rob Roos and former Commission energy official Professor Samuele Furfari to outline the devastating impact of the EU’s Green Agenda on citizens.

April 27, 2023
MEPs Rally Europe Against “Disastrous” Migration Pact

MEPs Rally Europe Against “Disastrous” Migration Pact

“We are very hopeful to move things in the right direction,” members of the new cross-party policy group said, promising to do everything they can “to stop this left-wing compromise” on the new migration pact.

April 27, 2023
Terror Plot Foiled in Hamburg

Terror Plot Foiled in Hamburg

Counter terrorism police conducted raids in the port city of Hamburg and Kempten, and found the Syrian Islamist planning to manufacture a suicide vest.

April 27, 2023