Month: January 2025

If You Can’t Beat It, “Quitte” It: French Agency Uses Public Funds for X Exit App

If You Can’t Beat It, “Quitte” It: French Agency Uses Public Funds for X Exit App

Can academic freedom justify the use of taxpayers’ money for a political project?

January 22, 2025
Leftist MEPs Mourn Democracy While Conservatives Celebrate It

Leftist MEPs Mourn Democracy While Conservatives Celebrate It

While those in the EP panicking about “the rise of fascism” have nothing to fear, conservatives warn that “today’s EU is at odds with the new era” that began with Trump’s inauguration.

January 22, 2025
UK Assisted Suicide Panel Skewed Toward Legalization Advocates

UK Assisted Suicide Panel Skewed Toward Legalization Advocates

Experts complain that “any reasonable person would be deeply troubled by the one-sided nature of those being called” as witnesses.

January 22, 2025
Human Rights Court Maintains Romania’s Undemocratic Election Annulment

Human Rights Court Maintains Romania’s Undemocratic Election Annulment

No surprises as Strasbourg chooses to legitimize the socialist-led coup against the democratic will of a clear majority.

January 22, 2025
Hungarian PM Tells Ukraine To Show Respect for Hungary and Slovakia

Hungarian PM Tells Ukraine To Show Respect for Hungary and Slovakia

Speaking after meeting his Slovakian counterpart, PM Orbán warned Ukraine to resolve the current gas dispute or risk jeopardising its EU ambitions.

January 21, 2025
Brussels Readies Its Big Guns Against “Tech Oligarchs” and Free Speech

Brussels Readies Its Big Guns Against “Tech Oligarchs” and Free Speech

The EU elite is doubling down on social media censorship in the wake of Trump’s inauguration by equipping its legal toolbox to remove content around the clock.

January 21, 2025
“What Else Are We Not Being Told?” Starmer Under Pressure Over Southport Killer

“What Else Are We Not Being Told?” Starmer Under Pressure Over Southport Killer

With a history of violence and proximity to terrorist propaganda, the dance class murderer was already known to UK authorities.

January 21, 2025
VDL’s Strategy for Europe: More of the Same

VDL’s Strategy for Europe: More of the Same

President von der Leyen’s speech in Davos exemplified how the Commission turned into a political machine driving a left-liberal agenda.

January 21, 2025
Polish Presidential Candidate on EU Green Deal: Let the People Vote!

Polish Presidential Candidate on EU Green Deal: Let the People Vote!

EU climate policies pose an “existential and fundamental” threat to Poland, conservative contender Karol Nawrocki says.

January 21, 2025
Germany and China Beg Trump Not To Start Trade War

Germany and China Beg Trump Not To Start Trade War

Speaking at the World Economic Forum, leaders pleaded with the U.S. president to abandon protectionism.

January 21, 2025
Spanish PM Lashes Out at Trump and Silicon Valley Techno Elite

Spanish PM Lashes Out at Trump and Silicon Valley Techno Elite

Pedro Sánchez will not be saved by positioning himself as the global leader against the ‘Far Right.’

January 21, 2025
The Revenge of the Normies: Donald Trump Retakes Washington

The Revenge of the Normies: Donald Trump Retakes Washington

It is a new era in America. You can feel it in this city—in both the jubilation of the MAGA crowds and the foreboding that permeates the federal buildings.

January 21, 2025