Month: May 2025

Composite: Margaret Atwood and image from the movie The Handmaid's Tale of woman in white cap and dark cloak

The Orwellian Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale author embodies the elite’s manipulation of language to demonize their ideological opponents by lying about what is actually happening.

French MPs To Vote on One of the World’s Most Extreme Euthanasia Laws

French MPs To Vote on One of the World’s Most Extreme Euthanasia Laws

Deterring a suffering loved one from receiving a lethal injection could earn you up to two years in prison and a €30,000 fine.

Driver Plows Into Crowd at Liverpool Premier League Celebration

Driver Plows Into Crowd at Liverpool Premier League Celebration

Police said they had arrested a 53-year-old “white British man.”

May 26, 2025
Merz Aligns with SPD: Accuses Israel of Violating International Law

Merz Aligns with SPD: Accuses Israel of Violating International Law

German social democrat lawmakers demand an end to military exports amid Gaza concerns.

May 26, 2025
Sweden Democrats: Prioritize Defense Spending Over Foreign Aid

Sweden Democrats: Prioritize Defense Spending Over Foreign Aid

Corruption and inefficiency in aid programs means it’s “not solidarity, but waste,” they said.

May 26, 2025
New Romanian President Has His Challenges Cut Out for Him

New Romanian President Has His Challenges Cut Out for Him

During his inauguration, newly elected President Nicusor Dan pledged to be a president who “listens.”

May 26, 2025
Tusk: Poland Wants To Earn “Big Money” on Ukraine Reconstruction

Tusk: Poland Wants To Earn “Big Money” on Ukraine Reconstruction

The PM hopes the Slawkow railway facility in southern Poland will become a main transport hub for materials heading to Ukraine.

May 26, 2025
Russia on Peace Memorandum: We’re Working on It.

Russia on Peace Memorandum: We’re Working on It.

A prisoner exchange seen as the first step was finalized Sunday, the Kremlin said.

May 26, 2025
Geert Wilders Threatens Coalition Stability If No Progress on Tougher Immigration Rules

Geert Wilders Threatens Coalition Stability If No Progress on Tougher Immigration Rules

“We’re done. The gloves come off today. We’ll talk to everyone, but we bow to no one,” the right-wing leader said.

May 26, 2025
Brussels Afraid of Confronting Hungary Over Pride March Ban—For Now

Brussels Afraid of Confronting Hungary Over Pride March Ban—For Now

Rejecting the calls for legal action, von der Leyen also asked commissioners not to attend the event to avoid “provoking Orbán on his own turf.”

May 26, 2025
English University Drops Claims of Israeli “Genocide”

English University Drops Claims of Israeli “Genocide”

Student activists clash over whether a core antisemitic argument should be incorporated into student union policy.

May 26, 2025
Knife Attack in Central Vienna, Suspect Still at Large

Knife Attack in Central Vienna, Suspect Still at Large

The city saw a similar attack recently as street violence becomes ever more common in the Austrian capital.

May 26, 2025
Drugs and Crime: One in Five Brussels Residents Feel Unsafe

Drugs and Crime: One in Five Brussels Residents Feel Unsafe

With local police unable to put an end to the drug wars on the street, the European capital is not for the faint-hearted.

May 26, 2025