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Qatar’s purpose in buying up Western media and influence is to create a smokescreen for the regimes that create the very problems which drive millions of refugees to seek the charity of generous Western states.

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Europe Unmasked

18:46

Rights Watchdog: Turkish Government is ‘Undermining Democracy’

17:45

Macron Warns Belarus Against Deeper Ukraine War Involvement

17:21

Northeast Syria: Kurdish Regions Voting for Transitional Parliament

16:48

Clashes at Belgrade Mass Protest

16:20

Fewer Than One-Fifth of Germans Believe the Bundeswehr is Combat-Ready

14:40

Dozens Killed in Pakistan Security Personnel Train Bombing

13:36

Janša Returns as Slovenia’s PM for Fourth Time

13:21

Amsterdam Moves to Rein In “Fatbikes” With Park Ban

12:49

Night Strikes on Kyiv Leave Four Dead and Dozens Injured

11:44

Channel Migrant Boat Capsizes: Multiple Hospitalisations

11:24

Trump Bullish for Iran Deal

09:55

Zelensky Rejects “Unfair” EU Half-Membership Plan

15:58

New Wave of Knife Violence Hits German Cities

15:33

Thousands March in Madrid Calling for Sánchez To Quit

15:11

TEC: Into the Lion's Den

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Opinion

Editor's Pick

COMMENTARY

The Framing Problem: How Germany Talks About Homelessness

For all the official rhetoric about caring for the poor, their interests have been sacrificed on the altar of energy-efficiency targets and green ideology.

Editor's Pick

COMMENTARY

Muslim Countries Build Mosques in the West While Persecuting Christians at Home

Construction of Islamic worship centers funded by Turkey, Qatar, and Iran has been welcomed by Western politicians eager to court the Muslim immigrant vote.

Editor's Pick

COMMENTARY

Independence Before Identity—Montenegro at Twenty

Montenegro outlasted the Ottoman Empire, the forcible erasure of its statehood in 1918, and decades of communist Yugoslavia, but will it be able to outlast the European Union?

Editor's Pick

Analysis

How the EU Quietly Rewired the Politics of Marriage

Once a legal status acquired in one member state begins circulating freely across the Union, national constitutional distinctions gradually erode in practice even when they formally remain intact.

Editor's Pick

Analysis

Skyrocketing Oil Prices Could Lead to Hungarian Inflation Nightmare

A new report lays out a risky path ahead for Budapest—including painful inflation levels not seen since the last energy shock.

NEWS

Democracy Denied: French Constitutional Council Reinstates Low Emission Zones

The Constitutional Council is gradually becoming a sort of third chamber overturning political compromises approved by the nation’s elected representatives.

NEWS

Polish Right-Wing Konfederacja Seeks Ban on Same-Sex Adoption

Conservative lawmakers in Poland say recognition of same-sex marriages registered abroad could open the door to same-sex couples’ adoption rights.

NEWS

Grilling Outdoors in Austria? Not With Pork!

A group of students were told to leave by Muslim men offended by the ‘haram’ meat the Austrian natives were planning to grill.

NEWS

Merz’s Shortcut for Ukraine Divides Europe (Again)

The German chancellor’s proposal of a special form of ‘association’to integrate Ukraine into EU structures is received with scepticism in Brussels.

NEWS

Patriots for Europe Group Condemns Hungary’s “Lex Orbán” as Attack on Democracy

Hungary’s proposed prime ministerial term limits represent a dangerous precedent according to the conservative grouping.

NEWS

Can an MEP Have Coffee With Someone on the Right, or Is That Forbidden Too?

The EPP is considering sanctioning Slovenian MEP Branko Grims for taking part in an event with Patriots, ESN and ECR.

Media

Commentary

COMMENTARY

The Framing Problem: How Germany Talks About Homelessness

For all the official rhetoric about caring for the poor, their interests have been sacrificed on the altar of energy-efficiency targets and green ideology.

COMMENTARY

Muslim Countries Build Mosques in the West While Persecuting Christians at Home

Construction of Islamic worship centers funded by Turkey, Qatar, and Iran has been welcomed by Western politicians eager to court the Muslim immigrant vote.

COMMENTARY

Independence Before Identity—Montenegro at Twenty

Montenegro outlasted the Ottoman Empire, the forcible erasure of its statehood in 1918, and decades of communist Yugoslavia, but will it be able to outlast the European Union?

COMMENTARY

Magyar’s Test: Sell Hungarian Children to Brussels’ Gender Cult for Cash?

The EU assumes the truth of an ideology that most Hungarians—and millions of other Europeans—reject.

COMMENTARY

French Cinema Pushes Back Against So-Called Far-Right Grip

600 actors and directors claim to be defending their independence—that is to say, their progressive agenda.

COMMENTARY

Europe’s Order of the Golden Farce

Europe’s elites have turned a powerhouse into a punchline, then give themselves medals for the collapse.

COMMENTARY

France’s Great Culinary Replacement: From Escargot to Reconstituted Chicken

By championing the virtues of a bag of fried chicken, a certain section of the Left imagines itself following in the footsteps of Marx and Zola and sees in it a revival of the class struggle, updated to defend the ‘racialised’ poor.

COMMENTARY

The Quiet Collapse of Belonging

Britain’s young people are among the loneliest in Europe. This should concern us far more than it does.

COMMENTARY

The Catholic Church Is Focusing on the Wrong Crisis

Every attempt to correct inequalities through political intervention or global planning ends up destroying the mechanisms that generate real prosperity.

COMMENTARY

Reform’s Radical Agenda: Give the Voters What They Want

Far from celebrating the prospect of getting what they say they want, the ‘refugees welcome’ brigade appear to have had a fit of nimbyism.

Analysis

How the EU Quietly Rewired the Politics of Marriage

Once a legal status acquired in one member state begins circulating freely across the Union, national constitutional distinctions gradually erode in practice even when they formally remain intact.

Analysis

Skyrocketing Oil Prices Could Lead to Hungarian Inflation Nightmare

A new report lays out a risky path ahead for Budapest—including painful inflation levels not seen since the last energy shock.

Analysis

One Month in RN Cities

Budget cuts imposed on trade unions or activist cultural organisations: what if this were simply a triumph of common sense?

Analysis

Sweden Is Still Very Much a Socialist Country

Another wave of media stories tries to portray Sweden as a reborn haven for capitalism. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Analysis

Inflation Surge Should Compel ECB Rate Hike

With the threat of stagflation growing stronger, the ECB is allegedly still reluctant to raise interest rates. This is very troubling, especially with stagflation lurking in the woods.

Analysis

Article 42(7) and the Limits of European Strategic Autonomy

What appears, on paper, as a serious expression of mutual defence still depends in practice on political improvisation.

Analysis

American Economy Leaves Europe Behind

Recent discussions have tried to explain a transatlantic difference that has been growing for decades.

Analysis

EU Makes Anti-Poverty Promise It Can’t Keep

Here comes another political-posturing project from Brussels.

Analysis

Brussels Prepares a Hate-the-Rich Tax Package

Having learned nothing from history, the EU Commission has ordered a report that looks like an instruction manual for how to chase wealth out of Europe.

Analysis

NATO’s Power Shift: U.S. Steps Back, Germany Steps Up?

Trump’s move coincides with Berlin’s strategy to become Europe’s leading conventional military power.

Interviews

Interview

“The frankness in Pope Leo’s speech contrasts with the Vatican’s traditional diplomatic caution”—ECLJ’s Constance Avenel

"The European Union and the Council of Europe have developed dedicated mechanisms to combat antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred, while no equivalent framework exists to address anti-Christian hatred.

Interview

“The destruction of the cultures of Asia Minor after 1922 was a humanitarian and cultural disaster”—Historian Nikolaos Pavlidis

“While the rest of Europe was modernizing and spreading the ideas of the Enlightenment, the Greeks stayed in the dark behind the borders of the Muslim Ottoman Empire for centuries.”

Interview

Salazar’s Legacy: Patriot Moderniser or Obscurantist Dictator?—Historian Tom Gallagher

“António Salazar was distrustful of the terms ‘right’ and ‘left’ and took his stand around a position of steady but unspectacular nationalism.”

Interview

“The EU has developed tools capable of shaping national elections”—Democracy Interference Observatory head Richard Schenk

“If the European Union starts to consider democratically elected governments illegitimate simply because they do not share the dominant political line in Brussels, then the problem is no longer Viktor Orbán.”

Interview

“Hungary offers an opt-out, which Brussels does not want to allow”—Political Analyst Zoltán Kiszelly

“What bothers Brussels is not just that Hungary stands out, but that this alternative could become popular among a majority of Europeans over time.”

Interview

“What we are seeing today is the systematic removal of Christianity from its birthplace”—Juliana Taimoorazy, Iraqi Christian Relief Council Founder

“The West cannot champion human rights while ignoring the slow destruction of one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, the Assyrians.”

Interview

“What kept us religious was not passive preservation but active resistance”—Ignas Kriaučiūnas, Ateitis Federation

“Is it not possible that Europe, which once sent missionaries to the ends of the earth, may yet find itself re-Christianized by the very peoples it once sought to convert?”

Interview

“Europe Does Not Decide This War, But It Pays the Price Again”—Professor Alexandre Muns

The former adviser to the World Bank and the IDB believes the crisis will normalize within weeks, but will leave Europe weaker and more dependent.

Interview

“The Barbarians Are at the Gate”—U.S. Actor and Comedian Rob Schneider

According to Schneider, the twin threats to the West today are the green-red alliance, cloaked in the robe of tolerance, and Islam.

Interview

“With this judicial reform we may finally put an end to rulings that seem more like political decisions”—MEP Stefano Cavedagna

“Italians support this reform because the justice system isn't working properly.”

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Europe Unmasked

Thousands March in Madrid to Demand Action on Spain’s Housing Crisis

18:46

Rights Watchdog: Turkish Government is ‘Undermining Democracy’

17:45

Macron Warns Belarus Against Deeper Ukraine War Involvement

17:21

Northeast Syria: Kurdish Regions Voting for Transitional Parliament

16:48

Clashes at Belgrade Mass Protest

16:20

Fewer Than One-Fifth of Germans Believe the Bundeswehr is Combat-Ready

14:40

Dozens Killed in Pakistan Security Personnel Train Bombing

13:36

Janša Returns as Slovenia’s PM for Fourth Time

13:21

Amsterdam Moves to Rein In “Fatbikes” With Park Ban

12:49

Night Strikes on Kyiv Leave Four Dead and Dozens Injured

11:44

Channel Migrant Boat Capsizes: Multiple Hospitalisations

11:24

Trump Bullish for Iran Deal

09:55

Zelensky Rejects “Unfair” EU Half-Membership Plan

15:58

New Wave of Knife Violence Hits German Cities

15:33

Thousands March in Madrid Calling for Sánchez To Quit

15:11

TEC: Into the Lion's Den

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