Von der Leyen-Trump Meeting in Rome on the Cards
The European Commission chief and the U.S. president have not met since Trump’s re-election and the start of the trade war.
The European Commission chief and the U.S. president have not met since Trump’s re-election and the start of the trade war.
Despite the Ukrainians claiming to have captured Chinese fighters, Beijing continues to insist that it is not involved in the Russo-Ukrainian war.

The Labour government’s backpedal on single-sex spaces reveals deeper issues of trust and conviction in its leadership.
The largest opposition party will hold a demonstration on Wednesday, a month after the arrest of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s biggest political rival.

Meloni’s Washington gamble isn’t just bold—it’s a blueprint for a Europe no longer shackled to Brussels’ dead weight.
Alice Weidel’s right-wing populist party is miles ahead of the mainstream political forces.
The incident was the region’s deadliest attack on civilians since 2000.
The Donald Tusk-led government wanted to get an international arrest warrant for persecuted opposition politician who fled to Hungary.

Meanwhile, a former Sweden Democrat MP is convicted and fined for posting anti-Islamic satires.

The bloc has “lost its credibility as a commercial power guided by human values,” human rights activist said.
Crimes committed by Turks, Egyptians, and Ukrainians rose by the highest rate.
The pontiff will be buried in Rome’s Santa Maria Maggiore basilica.
The Acton Institute takes a moment to reflect on a pontiff who focused on the “least among us.”
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21st, at his Casa Santa Marta residence. His papacy challenged tradition and orthodoxy, upsetting many conservatives in the Church.
Pope Francis’ final audience with U.S. vice president JD Vance might have marked the divide between the past and future of the Church of Rome.
Without fundamental reforms and a return to market-oriented policies, Germany—and with it the euro zone— will continue to lose ground.
One of our challenges, as men and women of the Right, is to make our own contributions to the modicum of good in the world. How? One way is by simply giving ourselves to others; by living with integrity; by acting with humility and charity—even when we wield great power or influence.
The substitute affiliations progressives seek to impose on us cannot replace the true bonds we have inherited—those of faith, identity, and family—and do not bring happiness.
Beijing has taken advantage of European naivety to fill the Common Market with its vehicles while protecting its own.
When the adversary denies borders, morality, and the value of human life itself, refusal to resist is not a path to peace. It is a path to erasure.
The country’s elites and powerholders would do well to take Christ’s advice and learn to interpret the signs of the times.
“This is not oversight. This is a political smear campaign,” the secretary of state said.