The EP has already rejected the mass surveillance regime once, so the EPP has now forced a second vote, knowing there won’t be enough MEPs on the last day before summer recess to stop it.
From St. Augustine to the California missions and the American Revolution, Spain played a formative role in shaping the history, culture, and institutions of the future United States.
Washington’s America250 festivities unfolded under crushing heat, tight security, and unmistakable Trump branding before ending with a moving celebration of the veterans and ideals that have shaped the United States.
The heat wave exposed more than rising temperatures—it revealed decades of neglected infrastructure, political drift, and a government that struggles to perform its most basic functions.
The pirates don’t raid European towns now; they live there.
The Eurobarometer poll invites no serious criticism of past policy choices and gives little space to the genuine concerns clearly demonstrated, time and again, by the public.
If not for the piles of regulation produced by the Berlaymont, air conditioning would likely be far easier and cheaper to obtain by hundreds of millions of Europeans.
This movie isn’t about fiction or fantasy but about what we’re experiencing in Europe right now.
The conviction of Erik Tegnér for investigating mass immigration has sparked fears that an anti-harassment law is being repurposed to stifle press scrutiny of mass migration.
The charge of Islamophobia has served Islamists well. It has allowed them to dodge scrutiny and isolate their critics, often with state approval.
European citizens’ taxes continue to help fund the disgraced UN agency, despite 12% of its personnel being investigated for suspected ties to Hamas.
The wars over Nagorno-Karabakh have claimed thousands of lives over the past three decades. The wounds remain fresh in a nation still recovering from repeated conflict and loss.
Sánchez defies any political logic known in Western democracies. No leader could even attempt to cling to power while completely surrounded by serious judicial investigations, but he does not abide by the conventional rules of politics.
Everyday life has become a pressure cooker. The question is when that pressure cooker is going to blow up, and what forms that explosion will take.
Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill returns via procedural backdoor as public concerns grow, medical groups oppose it, and Burnham’s likely premiership dims its prospects.
For the government, the real criminals are the ‘sense offenders,’ those people who, on hearing of the latest appalling death, experience human feeling and give rise to anger.
It was not compromise but the avoidance—even suppression—of critical debate that lay at the heart of the technocratic governing style for which Merkel and her successors stand.
Pedro Sánchez is summoning the long-silent ghosts of the past in an attempt to publicly humiliate the victors of the civil war. In so doing, he has likely opened Pandora’s box—even if he has not yet realised it.
The plain old class prejudice levelled at these girls by the Left was hateful and all too predictable.
Europe still inhabits the house that Christianity built. The question is whether it still understands the foundations.
The government is preparing to protect Corsican traditions and identity. But what about French identity?
As demographic shifts accelerate and anti-Christian hostility mounts from both radical Islam and the secular left, the faith that is Europe’s soul faces an uncertain and darkening future.
A series of high-profile attacks has intensified debate over asylum and border controls, yet Ireland’s governing and media elites remain reluctant to confront the issue directly.
The litany of gross injustices keeps growing, but the elites care more about how we talk about it—or don’t.
The problem is not European society discriminating against culturally irreconcilable people but pandering to them, even spending taxpayer cash on training public health officials how to treat foreign lunatics who think they have goblins living in their necks.
The government’s insistence that this referendum is “just about talks” echoes criticisms of how EU integration has proceeded elsewhere: incremental steps that are difficult to reverse.
The Elgin Marbles debate is about far more than the marbles themselves. It is about the ludicrous concept that art and culture should be tribalised.
Selective memory does not bring peoples together but fuels the very resentments it claims to soothe.
The Vatican’s commitment to multilateral engagement is colliding with the reality of mounting repression against China’s faithful.
Fresh revelations about a secret accord between the Archbishop of Madrid and the Socialist government have transformed what was already a bitter controversy into something approaching a canonical crisis.
