Hélène de Lauzun

Hélène de Lauzun is the Paris correspondent for The European Conservative. She studied at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris. She taught French literature and civilization at Harvard and received a Ph.D. in History from the Sorbonne. She is the author of Histoire de l’Autriche (Perrin, 2021).
Central European States Take Action Against Immigration

Central European States Take Action Against Immigration

Austria, Hungary, and Serbia are determined to make up for the European Union’s deficiencies in regulating migratory flows.

October 8, 2022
Rumours of Dissolution at the French National Assembly

Rumours of Dissolution at the French National Assembly

The legislative and executive powers are now engaged in a form of institutional one-upmanship. Emmanuel Macron, threatened by a motion of censure, answered with another threat: the dissolution of the National Assembly.

October 7, 2022
Submarine Internet Cables Under High Surveillance

Submarine Internet Cables Under High Surveillance

Anxiety has been heightened because these cables are mostly owned by private companies and they pass through areas that are accessible to all, making them very vulnerable.

October 6, 2022
New Coup d’Etat in Burkina Faso against a Backdrop of Russian Interference

New Coup d’Etat in Burkina Faso against a Backdrop of Russian Interference

The fight against jihadism is the priority for the new master of Burkina Faso. The country has lost control of 40% of its territory to armed jihadist groups, and Damiba has clearly failed to put an end to this unrest.

October 6, 2022
Despite the Italian Example, the French will not be Uniting the Rights

Despite the Italian Example, the French will not be Uniting the Rights

The French believe a union of the Rights is highly unlikely in the French political landscape, and perhaps more significantly, they consider coalitions undesirable.

October 5, 2022
Meloni Confirms Her Support For Ukraine

Meloni Confirms Her Support For Ukraine

Meloni distinguished herself from her two allies in the centre-right coalition, Matteo Salvini’s Lega and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, who were much more cautious on the subject, by virtue of their relatively good relations with Vladimir Putin in the past.

October 2, 2022
Lessons From Italy for the French Right

Lessons From Italy for the French Right

For the Italians, there is no ‘fascism’ attached to Giorgia Meloni. Her coalition is centre-right, full stop. On the other side of the Alps, the repeated use of the word ‘fascist’ dispenses with any nuanced analysis; few articles actually look at Meloni’s programme.

October 1, 2022
A Battle of Belonging: the Story of Two Statues

A Battle of Belonging: the Story of Two Statues

Those who are contemptuous of Christian civilisation continue their assault on our spiritual heritage. Defending it is becoming increasingly difficult to justify to those for whom erasing its traces from the public sphere has become a point of honour.

September 29, 2022
Cardinal Joseph Zen on Trial

Cardinal Joseph Zen on Trial

Cardinal Zen’s arrest in May sparked a wave of international outrage, in contrast to the Vatican’s relative discretion on the matter. This ‘prudence,’ which could be viewed as excessive, provides the morally murky atmosphere necessary for the Vatican to renew the agreement with communist China.

September 29, 2022
French Intelligence Reveals Social Media Pushing Islam at School

French Intelligence Reveals Social Media Pushing Islam at School

The two memos, although they come from state services, flagrantly contradict the official discourse of the education minister, the indigenist Pap Ndiaye, who does everything to minimise the problem of the Islamisation of schools.

September 28, 2022
North Korea Launches New Ballistic Missiles

North Korea Launches New Ballistic Missiles

The attempt to intimidate comes as Vice President Kamala Harris is travelling to visit Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

September 28, 2022
Flanders’ Bishops in Favour of Same-Sex Unions in Church

Flanders’ Bishops in Favour of Same-Sex Unions in Church

With this gesture, the Belgian episcopate replaces prayers for the return of homosexuals to lives that conform to the Catholic faith with a deliberate policy that sanctions gay unions, to be implemented liturgically.

September 26, 2022