Thomas O’Reilly is an Irish journalist working for The European Conservative in Brussels. He has an educational background in chemical sciences and journalism.
EU Guts Farming Reforms Due to Rising Prices

EU Guts Farming Reforms Due to Rising Prices

Idealism meets reality in another blow to the Green New Deal.

September 12, 2023
EU Denies Struggling Irish Farmers Nitrate Cut Relief

EU Denies Struggling Irish Farmers Nitrate Cut Relief

Irish PM affirms decision is Brussels’—not Dublin’s—to make.

September 12, 2023
Italy’s Local Governments Pave New Silk Road

Italy’s Local Governments Pave New Silk Road

Direct partnerships with China defy Meloni’s Belt and Road exit.

September 11, 2023
EU Financial Report On Romanian Insurance Scandal Withheld from MEPs

EU Financial Report On Romanian Insurance Scandal Withheld from MEPs

Questions have been raised over a secret report into the Romanian motor insurance industry, which MEPs complain is being withheld from parliamentary examination.

September 10, 2023
Austria Moving Towards Its Own Rwanda Asylum Plan

Austria Moving Towards Its Own Rwanda Asylum Plan

The ruling ÖVP rolls out the rhetoric on immigration ahead of next year’s elections in an attempt to head off the growing FPÖ.

September 9, 2023
Georgia’s Balancing Act: EU/NATO Goals vs. Russian Threats

Georgia’s Balancing Act: EU/NATO Goals vs. Russian Threats

Atlanticists stoke fears that EU-aspiring Georgia is another Hungary.

September 8, 2023
EU To Continue Aid to Uganda Despite Anti-LGBT Laws

EU To Continue Aid to Uganda Despite Anti-LGBT Laws

Brussels’s LGBT dogmatism is constrained by geopolitical reality.

September 8, 2023
“No One Ever Said This Would Be Easy”: NATO Chief Defends Slow Ukrainian Progress

“No One Ever Said This Would Be Easy”: NATO Chief Defends Slow Ukrainian Progress

Anti-war MEPs blamed Stoltenberg for overpromising to the Ukrainian government on NATO membership as Eastern European MEPs warned of the war’s further expansion into the region.

September 7, 2023
Dutch Elections: Farmers Party Plummets As Greens Propose 75% Livestock Cull

Dutch Elections: Farmers Party Plummets As Greens Propose 75% Livestock Cull

Despite a triumph during March’s regional elections, hopes for Dutch agrarian populists have turned into mud, as the political mainstream prepares to assert itself during November elections.

September 7, 2023
Iran Plays Diplomatic Hardball With EU Over Detained Swedish Diplomat 

Iran Plays Diplomatic Hardball With EU Over Detained Swedish Diplomat 

In what appears to be another example of hostage diplomacy, Tehran is demanding Sweden’s release of a jailed Iranian official behind the massacre of political dissidents in the 1980s.

September 7, 2023
New Generation of Activists Fight Greenpeace’s Anti-Nuclear Stand 

New Generation of Activists Fight Greenpeace’s Anti-Nuclear Stand 

Ahead of an EU legal ruling, grassroots environmentalists are campaigning to classify nuclear energy as ‘green’ and pressuring NGO Greenpeace to change track on its anti-nuclear policy.

September 6, 2023
A European Executive? Federalists Plot To Capitalise Off EU Expansion Plans

A European Executive? Federalists Plot To Capitalise Off EU Expansion Plans

Aiming to turn crisis into opportunity, federalists are hoping to centralise EU powers further, compelling one Polish MEP to warn about the formation of a homogenising state.

September 5, 2023