“Brussels stays quiet because Ankara holds two levers over Europe: an illegal migration tap that it can open or shut at will, and a seat on NATO’s southern flank which nobody wants to lose.”

Sergei Lavrov and Marco Rubio held talks in Manila on the sidelines of an ASEAN gathering, making little progress.

The Commission refused to register the Save Europe Act, ruling that its call to halt non-Western immigration breached EU anti-discrimination rules.

Athens secured a renewable exemption for some Russian LNG shipments in exchange for backing a freeze on Moscow’s oil price cap.

A think-tank-backed essay argues that rights should remain with individual citizens, warning that granting them to religious groups would undermine freedom, equality and social cohesion.

Muslim extremism is on the rise in Europe with official figures showing Islamist youth being more radicalized and taking an active part in the planning of attacks.

Rousseau sought to liberate humanity by restoring it to an original innocence. Woke culture pursues a remarkably similar objective through what it calls the deconstruction of inherited civilization.