Bridget Ryder is a news writer for The European Conservative. She holds degrees in Spanish and Catholic Studies.
Thousands of Sheep on Madrid’s Streets

Thousands of Sheep on Madrid’s Streets

Except in parts of Scandinavia, Spain is the only country in Europe that has preserved a meaningful degree of long-distance cattle herding, and, along with it, the needed transhumance routes.

October 29, 2022
Sunak Faces Parliament After Appointing Cabinet

Sunak Faces Parliament After Appointing Cabinet

Sunak quickly formed his cabinet, a combination of familiar faces, including former cabinet members sacked by Truss or Johnson but restored to office by Sunak.

October 28, 2022
International Leaders Jostle to Pilot Ukraine ‘Marshall Plan’

International Leaders Jostle to Pilot Ukraine ‘Marshall Plan’

The organisation also advocated that the G7 and the U.S.—not the EU Commission—lead in managing international support for Ukraine’s recovery “because Brussels has neither the necessary political nor the financial heft.”

October 27, 2022
Nuclear Accusations Fly, Ukraine Invokes Budapest Memorandum

Nuclear Accusations Fly, Ukraine Invokes Budapest Memorandum

The accusations of a Ukrainian nuclear plot came over the weekend of October 22-23, generating a flurry of phone calls between Russian and western officials on Sunday and Monday.

October 24, 2022
Spain, France, Portugal Agree to Build Undersea Gas Pipe

Spain, France, Portugal Agree to Build Undersea Gas Pipe

Touted as a ‘Green Energy Corridor,’ the undersea pipeline will be designed to carry natural gas, hydrogen, and other renewable gases.

October 23, 2022
Shiploads of Natural Gas Waiting at Sea

Shiploads of Natural Gas Waiting at Sea

The backup has been caused in part by current market forces and in part by Europe’s scramble to replace natural gas piped in from Russia with natural gas from other sources, primarily shipped LNG.

October 21, 2022
Liz Truss Apologises for “Mistakes”

Liz Truss Apologises for “Mistakes”

Many in Truss’ own party are disenchanted with her already, upset by her swift U-turn in replacing Kwarteng with Hunt, and are considering ways of ousting her as quickly as possible.

October 19, 2022
Russia Resumes Air Strikes Across Ukraine

Russia Resumes Air Strikes Across Ukraine

The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitshchko, posted on social media that approximately 28 drones were seen flying over the city and that there were a total of five explosions.

October 18, 2022
Abortion Clinics in Spain Fined for False Advertising

Abortion Clinics in Spain Fined for False Advertising

La Fundación de Abogados Cristianos is taking the ruling to the EU to garner support for retracting public funding for abortions in Spain.

October 16, 2022
Spanish Doctors and Parents Denounce ‘Trans Law’

Spanish Doctors and Parents Denounce ‘Trans Law’

The law that’s been proposed is designed to de-pathologize gender dysphoria, normalize gender theory, and the notion that gender and sex can be self-determined, assisted by medical interventions.

October 14, 2022
Iberosphere Summit II: Europe and Latin America Unite Against Narcocommunism

Iberosphere Summit II: Europe and Latin America Unite Against Narcocommunism

The summit was sponsored by an alliance of the EU political party European Conservatives and Reformists and conservative Latin American leaders to focus on a counteroffensive for freedom.

October 14, 2022
Bosnian Elections Show Few Changes Amid Protests

Bosnian Elections Show Few Changes Amid Protests

Election results followed the same trend seen over the past 25 years of ethnocentric politics, in sync with the country’s enduring ethnic rifts. But a contested result has led to protests.

October 12, 2022