Viktor Orbán’s influence extends far beyond the borders of Hungary: for the international sovereigntist camp, he is proof that patriotic politics is viable not only as a form of protest but as a form of government.
The Vienna discussion revealed something significant about the current European moment. Questions once confined to intellectual circles are increasingly entering the public sphere.
A stable Hungarian government under Orbán—whose political consistency has made him one of the most recognisable advocates of national prerogatives inside the EU—contributes to a more balanced institutional environment.
In the first documented Antifa attack on Portuguese soil, a young activist hurled a Molotov cocktail into a peaceful pro-life march in Lisbon.
The Left uses electoral fraud as a new way to carry out coups d’état without firing a single shot.
It’s not surprising that in times of moral confusion, existential emptiness, and rootlessness, traditional values are once again becoming a refuge.
After more than 30 years as a correspondent for mainstream media, Ulrich Heyden is now seen as suspect by Germany’s financial oversight authority.
The prosecution of Matthew Grech highlights activists’ aim with these bans: to silence Christians, to make it illegal to call LGBT ideology a sin, and to end religious freedom.
Endless self-denunciation might quench a progressive longing, but it does nothing to make the public safer.
If someone is on the ‘good side,’ threatening rhetoric can be tolerated, political blackmail can be explained, and pressure can be relativized.
The party that was once—for better or worse—seen as a vehicle for popular representation has become an obstacle to democratic change.
The MP was found “criminally liable” for a 22-year-old pamphlet stating the biblical views on homosexuality.
Truth cannot survive in a system where its value is subordinated to political expediency.
Leaking the precise location of a high-security private event to a press corps with an appetite for the darkest possible framing, in a city where networks were actively building nail bombs, was reckless.
The French Ministry of Education intends to impose “media education” on pupils—another way to guarantee its ideological domination.
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.
If Europe is to resemble something worthy of its name, things certainly will have to change.
Vilifying masculinity and traditional masculine qualities leaves a vacuum that women are physically and mentally incapable of filling.
Over decades, Germany’s political elites have systematically undermined the very values that might inspire citizens to feel a stake in their country’s defence.
