Angela Merkel successfully transformed the classical-conservative CDU of Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl into a socialist party, and turned the party establishment into a real left-wing establishment.

The European Conservative presents a new video series, “Symposia,” which will explore the crisis of our civilisation and what rebuilding that civilisation might look like. In the first episode, our senior editor, Sebastian Morello, travels to Scotland’s Isle of Skye to meet psychiatrist and philosopher Iain McGilchrist.

The Left has been very good at retaining power in many countries in the West, and this has not been a five or ten year campaign—this is a hundred year campaign. If we are going to turn that around, we are going to have to recognise that this is a marathon, not a sprint.

The most striking thing left out of these conversations is that this baby was aborted at 8 months, and very clearly not for any medical reasons, nor because the child had any disability.

“It is our belief that after years of dominance, the Left is quite ill-prepared to face the rise of effective, professional, and conservative NGOs equipped with proper resources and people.”

“The rigour with which the Illegal Migration Bill is implemented will determine the extent to which it deters migrants from making the perilous journey.”

European countries are slamming the door one after the other on the 2030 Agenda and progressivism. If Spain were to follow this trend, it would be a huge blow for progressives.

FROM THE SUMMER 2023 PRINT EDITION: “Terrified of thoughts and ideas that the establishment has ‘outlawed,’ conservatives have completely internalized the ‘rules of the game’ that their enemy has imposed.”—Thierry Baudet

Important defence agreements were reached at the Vilnius summit, accompanied by a unanimous joint statement of support for Ukraine.

“We need to be patient, we need to be consistent, we need to be ideologically well-founded in what we do and what we say, and then we need to be patient. We would like to build up a more steady base that is ideologically convinced that we represent them, rather than just try to get the disenfranchised voters who are now unhappy with the current government.”

I believe that all national conservative parties must cooperate more to get a presence in their national governments and to establish an effective policy against mass immigration.

There’s nothing surprising in what France is living through, as those with eyes to see have been saying for decades. But nobody listened to them.