Rafael Pinto Borges

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.
The Canonisation of the Al Qaeda Regime in Syria Is a Global Disgrace

The Canonisation of the Al Qaeda Regime in Syria Is a Global Disgrace

There is something decidedly grim beneath the normalisation of the Damascus regime: a tacit acknowledgement that violence, waged successfully enough, will eventually translate into legitimacy. 

April 1, 2026
Britain Will Not Be Ruling the Waves Again Under This Political Class

Britain Will Not Be Ruling the Waves Again Under This Political Class

A succession of inept Conservative and Labour governments have thoroughly demilitarised Britain.

April 1, 2026
The German Establishment’s Secret Plan Against the Truth

The German Establishment’s Secret Plan Against the Truth

Truth cannot survive in a system where its value is subordinated to political expediency.

March 26, 2026
Switzerland’s Cash Enshrinement in the Constitution Is a Win for Liberty

Switzerland’s Cash Enshrinement in the Constitution Is a Win for Liberty

Remove cash from the system, and every economic interaction becomes visible to some authority somewhere, whether in one’s own country or somewhere else.

March 18, 2026
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