At the heart of Portugal’s budget deadlock are three policy goals: economic growth, a balanced budget, and more funding for the welfare state. The conflict between these three goals is not unique to the Costa budget, nor is it unique to Portugal. This is a Europe-wide volcano that happened to erupt in Portugal, and has led to an attention-grabbing political crisis. 

Portugal’s president dissolves parliament, after the national assembly rejected the government’s draft budget.

Justice Moraes’ decision to make X inaccessible to more than 22 million Brazilians is censorship, pure and simple.

“It is clear that there has been a change of direction in Europe.”

Chega’s erratic behaviour may have contributed to their supporters not going to the polls on June 9.

The EU mainstream is still calling the shots, as leaders and factions who fail at the ballots put unelected bureaucrats in charge of 450 million people.

“They don’t care about reality, they don’t care about the results of the European elections, and they don’t care about the will of the European people.”—Hungarian PM Orbán.

Provisional top job nominations stitched up by main national leaders during last week’s G7 Summit.

Ursula von der Leyen is scrambling for enough votes in the Parliament for reelection, and she could also be excluded from the talks in the Council about her own position.

The centre-right PSD made a pact with the very same Socialist party that they had campaigned to defeat.

Chega has its sights set on smashing 50 years of leftist hegemony.

The scandal could bring down the entire socialist government.