A stage-managed public feedback and consultation turns citizens into extras in a play about democracy while silencing the very questions that might challenge the Commission’s authority.

Unlike Western Europe’s tendency toward moralizing diplomacy, Hungary’s approach is grounded in realism and mutual respect.

If East Germans had not felt—and rightly so—that for too many years, all decisions were made by West Germans, less estrangement would likely have resulted.

France’s political elite is out of time: they must form a sustainable government and start fiscal consolidation, or the country risks an economic crisis at least as severe as the one 15 years ago.

The Italian PM skillfully transformed the Italian Right from the transactional politics of Silvio Berlusconi to a populist movement defined by policy rather than personality.

Far from acting as a balancing power between East and West, Turkey has become a tactical opportunist, leveraging its NATO membership to extract concessions from the West.

The new pope is advised by a Curia that remains Bergoglian in orientation—progressive in theology and socialist in politics.

Even if you were to quadruple defence spending, if no-one is willing to fight for you, there would be no consequence.

In a smart debt-management move, the government of Hungary sells treasury securities in China. This sheds new light on European political and economic risk-taking.

Western heads of state ignore the fact that al-Sharaa’s HTS is classified as a terrorist group by the UN, the EU, and the UK.

The government in Lisbon can brag about having eliminated its budget deficit. How does this benefit the economy—if at all?

Fault lines continue to show themselves in the European Parliament, as the EU finally realises the folly that is its latest iteration of its Green Deal rules.