Rafael Pinto Borges is the founder and chairman of Nova Portugalidade, a Lisbon-based, conservative and patriotically-minded think tank. A political scientist and a historian, he has written on numerous national and international publications. You may find him on X as @rpintoborges.
Time To Hold Europe’s Energy Dependence Architects Accountable

Time To Hold Europe’s Energy Dependence Architects Accountable

To simultaneously obliterate Germany’s nuclear sector and to cut off energy ties with Russia wasn’t simply foolish—it was self-sabotage of the highest and most unforgivable order.

March 11, 2026
ProtectEU Is the EU’s Latest Trojan Horse Against Freedom

ProtectEU Is the EU’s Latest Trojan Horse Against Freedom

While appearing reasonable and necessary when taken individually, these measures collectively build an ecosystem of repression that East Germany’s Stasi could only have dreamt of.

March 6, 2026
How Europe Made Itself Irrelevant on AI

How Europe Made Itself Irrelevant on AI

Europe has built, brick by careful brick, a political and economic order structurally hostile to innovation.

March 3, 2026
The Anti-European Commission

The Anti-European Commission

In its toxic cocktail of war mania and pathological hatred of Orbán, the EU is betraying its very purpose—and obliterating trust in itself.

February 26, 2026
How Péter Magyar’s Manifesto Proves He’s Brussels’ Trojan Horse in Hungary

How Péter Magyar’s Manifesto Proves He’s Brussels’ Trojan Horse in Hungary

While the Hungarian people seek stability and the preservation of their way of life, Magyar’s sponsors in Brussels are salivating at the prospect of a compliant, hollowed-out Hungary.

February 24, 2026
The Portuguese Centre-Right Is Unfit for Purpose

The Portuguese Centre-Right Is Unfit for Purpose

When the moment of truth arrived, the “centre-right” once again preferred to work with the Left, a mistake it will come to regret.

February 6, 2026
Should The World Give Trump’s Board of Peace a Chance?

Should The World Give Trump’s Board of Peace a Chance?

We do need new institutions that are global without being globalist.

February 2, 2026
Fico Is Spot On: What Is Mrs. Kallas For?

Fico Is Spot On: What Is Mrs. Kallas For?

The purpose of foreign policy is not moral purification; it is to secure tangible interests as well as they can be secured in the existing balance of power.

January 27, 2026
“The contemporary racial narrative is not history; it is retrospective propaganda”—<strong>Fr. Javier Olivera Ravasi, SE</strong>

“The contemporary racial narrative is not history; it is retrospective propaganda”—<strong>Fr. Javier Olivera Ravasi, SE</strong>

“The Iberian world was, in many respects, radically innovative for its time:
it created laws to protect Indigenous peoples when other empires did not even recognize their humanity.”

January 25, 2026
Ventura Makes History: In Portugal’s Presidential Election, Authenticity Was the Winner 

Ventura Makes History: In Portugal’s Presidential Election, Authenticity Was the Winner 

Today, like never before in Portugal, there is a broad consensus for a national reform implemented from the Right.

January 19, 2026
In Portugal’s Election, Ventura Owns the Present

In Portugal’s Election, Ventura Owns the Present

In 2026, identity and sovereignty are what actually matter. There’s only one candidate saying those words in Portugal—and that’s Ventura.

January 16, 2026
Why Are European Monarchs Turning Their Backs On Christianity?

Why Are European Monarchs Turning Their Backs On Christianity?

Monarchy has always been all about religion: when one strips it of this specific charisma and vertical dimension, little that is worthwhile remains.

January 3, 2026