The French president proposes a change in France’s military paradigm, in preparation for long-lasting attacks requiring a greater availability of equipment and larger stocks of ammunition.
The West should attempt to compensate for any trade destruction, justified on the basis of geo-security, by opening up trade with parts of the world that are broadly friendly with the West. Southeast Asia is most certainly such a region.
Hungary is one of Europe’s major economic success stories. Bringing the current inflation episode to an end would only reinforce the country’s position as a role model for the rest of Europe.
Every government with debt on hand, and especially those with debt levels that are already unsustainable, must get to work on a contingency plan for the coming recession.
Globalism requires that societies accept their place in a global division of labour, and the principal political agent facilitating this is the anti-worker, pro-woke Left, with a complicit centre-Right as rearguard.
Any move in the gold-standard direction must be guided by pragmatism, not dogmatism.
There is one major omission from all the discussions on pension reform: the question of the birth rate and its corollary, family policy.
The new government has declared a state of emergency in the face of ongoing protests in favor of the deposed president, leaving at least three dozen people dead.
Alagna, Kurzak, Tézier, Kaufmann: Does the healthy reaction of these artists herald a new era, when opera will cease to be a place of propaganda, political activism, and wokeism?
Whiting and Hussey recently decided that their nude scenes in Romeo and Juliet—their only claim to anything approaching fame—had exploited and abused them.
Given the high level of economic integration in Europe, it is unlikely that a recession will be confined to half the continent.
Fighting has been going on since May in the area mainly besieged by the mercenaries of Russia’s Wagner Group, and both sides attach more importance to the area than its real military value.
