Brussels, Kyiv, and those member states whose intelligence communities are spreading disinformation are all determined to change Budapest’s position on Ukraine by helping the opposition come to power.
When political outcomes are shaped by external expectations, the decisions that follow rarely prioritize the national interest.
Sir Keir is not a Bond villain stroking a white cat in a volcano lair. He is something far more dangerous in a democracy: a careerist without fixed principles.
At the foot of the Basilica of Saint-Denis, the necropolis of the kings of France since Merovingian times, the descendants of the subjects of Their Majesties the Most Christian Kings are becoming increasingly rare.
Religiously illiterate priests who want their flocks to start observing Islamic dietary restrictions, not Lent, are starved of common sense more than anything else.
The last thing Berlin needs is a day against Islamophobia—what it does need is better politicians.
The rejection of the Scottish assisted suicide bill comes after cautionary tales from Canada, which is on track for 100,000 euthanasia deaths by this summer.
In pre-election polling, disgruntled voters penalize major parties whose ideological positions appear blurred or inconsistent.
Remove cash from the system, and every economic interaction becomes visible to some authority somewhere, whether in one’s own country or somewhere else.
The Spanish PM’s shift to the left could foreshadow the path that socialism—or the social-democratic Left—across the West will follow, or is already following.
Habermas does not teach conservatives how to shout down the Left. He teaches them how to make the Left answer.
The existence of ISIS sleeper cells and other jihadist groups remains a major national security threat that European governments must no longer ignore.
