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EU Celebrates Sweden’s Tobacco Success While Undermining It

Prioritising lower-risk alternative products over prohibitions would reduce both cigarette consumption and associated crime more than any number of snowballing product regulations in Brussels.

Cláudia Nunes

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July 30, 2026

In the heart of Paris, a man attacked three women with a knife “in the name of Allah.” Yet, once again, the psychiatric diagnosis prevailed, and the case was not referred to the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office. Across the French border, an Islamist terrorist attacked the Berlin Pride parade, but there, too, it seems almost impossible for the Germans to accurately profile the attacker. Is deliberate blindness the disease of our time? On Monday, July 27th, 2026, in Paris’s 17th arrondissement, three young women, aged 19, 24, and 36, one of them pregnant, were attacked with a knife in the middle of the street late in the morning. Two victims were seriously injured, but, according to authorities, their lives are not in danger. The alleged perpetrator, a 31-year-old man, was armed with two kitchen knives. He was spotted and followed by an off-duty police officer from the Paris Police Prefecture, then subdued with the help of responding officers and several bystanders before being arrested. Several witnesses and videos shared on social media show the suspect stating, among other things: “It was Allah who ordered me to do this.” According to other accounts reported by the press, he also reportedly stated: “Allah sent me to kill women.” The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office was immediately notified and is monitoring the case but has not taken over the investigation at this stage. An investigation has been opened for aggravated attempted murder, while authorities are working to determine whether the acts constitute a terrorist offense or were motivated by other factors. Police Prefect Laurent Nuñez stated that the suspect was speaking incoherently and had reportedly been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment on several previous occasions. The psychiatric interpretation is currently favoured by the authorities, in line with a recurring pattern in cases of this type: psychological motivation is emphasized, which allows the ideological background of the attack to be downplayed when the suspect is Muslim. At this time, several points remain to be established. Were the victims chosen at random or because they were women? What were the attacker’s potential ties to Islamist circles? Depending on the findings of the investigation, the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office will decide whether or not to proceed with the investigation on the basis of a terrorism charge. The tendency to frame attacks linked to Islam as psychiatric cases seems to be a standard procedure for police and judicial authorities. It is worth noting that when investigations are conducted into attacks carried out by individuals with profiles associated with the ‘far right,’ psychological instability is never highlighted as a primary factor in the media. Who remembers Anders Breivik as a paranoid schizophrenic? It is understandable that it may be delicate to classify acts that combine explicit references to Islam, extreme violence, and psychiatric disorders, but the presumption of psychiatric causes occurs too frequently to go unquestioned. The French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office follows a fairly consistent approach. In their view, the fact that a perpetrator shouts “Allahu Akbar,” claims to be acting “in the name of Allah,” or cites a religious motive is not sufficient on its own to characterize the act as terrorism. Prosecutors look for objective evidence demonstrating genuine ideological commitment: viewing jihadist propaganda, allegiance to an organization, preparation for the attack, documented radicalization, a symbolic choice of target, or an intent to sow terror beyond the immediate victims. In the absence of such evidence, the case is generally handled by the ordinary criminal prosecutor’s office, even if the perpetrator’s statements have Islamist overtones. The Alban Gervaise case remains, in this regard, one of the most significant precedents. On May 10, 2022, the 40-year-old military doctor was stabbed to death outside the Catholic school where he had come to pick up his three children in Marseille. His attacker chased him out of his vehicle, struck him repeatedly, and, once subdued, shouted, among other things, “Let me finish him off, in the name of God,” and referred to his victim as “the devil.” The circumstances—a family man, a Catholic school, explicit religious references—immediately raised questions about a possible Islamist attack. However, the judges concluded that the perpetrator was suffering from an acute delusional episode, likely linked to early-stage schizophrenia, which had resulted in a loss of discernment at the time of the incident. In 2025, he was therefore declared not criminally responsible and involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility. In 2026, the decision to grant him a more flexible treatment regimen, including periods at home, caused a strong public outcry, particularly among the victim’s family. In an earlier case, in 2017, the murder of Sarah Halimi by Kobili Traoré—who committed the murder after reciting suras from the Quran and shouting “Allah Akbar”—was recognized as having been committed while he was suffering from an acute delusional episode, exacerbated by heavy cannabis use. Although the judges accepted the antisemitic motive, the perpetrator was found not criminally responsible. The Paris attack presents several interesting features: a perpetrator who claims to be acting on Allah’s orders, victims apparently chosen at random, and reports of a history of psychiatric illness. It is to be hoped that the assailant will not, once again, be able to escape justice. The existence of psychiatric disorders does not automatically preclude a terrorist classification. But it does provide a convenient legal loophole. Above all, there does not seem to be any middle ground between a terrorist act and severe psychiatric disorders leading to criminal irresponsibility. Yet the prevalence of psychologically unstable individuals within a population of immigrant origin with an Islamic background goes beyond mere anecdotal evidence, yet the authorities are reluctant to draw political or practical conclusions from it. The presumption of psychiatric issues whenever a lone attacker of Muslim background carries out a violent act is merely one element in a broader institutional blindness to the risk posed to Western societies by the massive influx of immigrants from Muslim societies. With the media and politicians obsessed with welcoming and being open to others, the terrorist threat is underestimated, and the underlying violence within these immigrant populations is consistently swept under the rug as a non-issue. Ten years ago, on Sunday, July 26th, 2016, Father Jacques Hamel had his throat slit while celebrating Mass in the small town of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray. Today, we remember his death—but public television struggles to acknowledge that he was a victim of Islamic terrorism. Self-imposed blindness is hard to cure.
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Denial Is the Rule: Triple Stabbing in the Name of Allah ‘Psychiatric Disorder’

The latest knife attack in Paris reinforces the pattern of treating Muslim perpetrators as mentally ill rather than terrorists.

Hélène de Lauzun

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July 28, 2026

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Brussels Builds Continued Immigration Into Europe’s Future

Eurostat’s model adds further immigration whenever the working-age population falls, while treating a return to replacement-level fertility as unlikely.

Javier Villamor

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July 30, 2026

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More Than 1,500 Migrants Swim Into Spain as Ceuta Is Overwhelmed 

A Supreme Court ruling restricting immediate returns at sea has been blamed for stripping border officers of a vital deterrent.

Tamás Orbán

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July 30, 2026

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Zelensky Visits Poland in Bid To Ease Diplomatic Tensions

New polling shows Polish support for Ukraine’s EU membership has fallen sharply.

Zoltán Kottász

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July 30, 2026

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Iran Warns Bulgaria, Cyprus Over Western Bases

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Russia Brings Back North Korean Missiles Against Ukraine

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FIFA Charges Argentina Over Falklands Banner Displayed After Defeating England at World Cup

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UK Journalist Wins Defamation Case Against Essex Police Commissioner

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Merz Government Reportedly Considers Contingency Plans for Prospective AfD-Controlled States

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Finally! AfD to Run for Mayor in Lower Saxony

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Green Leader Escapes Charges Over Nigel Farage Guillotine Image

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Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal Rejects Recognition of Foreign Same-Sex Marriages

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American Concern Over Free Speech in Georgia

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EU Data Centres Caught in Net Zero’s Crosshairs 

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Trump Bans Chinese Humanoid Robots

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Man Arrested After Catholic Shrine Vandalised in Medjugorje

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Armed South Sudanese Illegal Migrant Locked Up for “Attention Seeking”

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Russia Seeks Durov Arrest Over Telegram Terror Charges

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Moonshot AI: China’s Key Artificial Intelligence Project Exceeds Funding Target

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The COVID Control Regime Built on False Certainties

A scathing U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee report backs a probable laboratory origin for COVID-19, finds no quantitative basis for the six-foot rule, and argues that officials overstated the vaccines’ ability to prevent infection and transmission.

Javier Villamor

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July 30, 2026

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What To Make of the U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal?

The two-year examination period before uranium enrichment technology is actually transferred to the KSA may be long enough to realize that the deal is not good for anyone.

Mario Alexis Portella

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July 29, 2026

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Women Without Penises Not Welcome in the Irish LGBT Asylum

The state-subsidised Féile an Phobail (Festival of the People) propaganda festival declared that women without penises were not welcome to hold meetings as they were not inclusive of ‘women with penises.’

Declan Hayes

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July 28, 2026

European Council President António Costa arrives for a dinner of the Coalition of the Willing at the Elysée Palace in Paris on July 13, 2026.
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When Portugal Abolished ‘ICE’

How António Costa’s criminal lack of scruples doomed Portugal’s demographic future.

Miguel Nunes Silva

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July 27, 2026

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“Why should culture be bound by specific modern borders?”—Archaeologist Mario Trabucco della Torretta

“If we allow heritage to be stripped of its significance and handed over to competing tribes, we won't just lose our museums—we will lose the ability to see ourselves in the history of others.”

Rafael Pinto Borges

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July 26, 2026

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Norway Halted Deportation of Man Now Charged With Murder

Maren Sømme, 30, died after suffering serious injuries at the home she shared with the previously convicted offender.

Zolta Győri

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July 30, 2026

Police officers wait for passport control at a highway slip road at the German-Austrian border near the village of Passau, southern Germany, on September 14, 2015.
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German Police Union Calls for Tougher Migration Laws After Berlin Attack

The DPolG union wants stricter rules on citizenship, deportation, and asylum after the Islamist attack committed by a German-Lebanese man.

Zoltán Kottász

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July 30, 2026

NEWS

The EuroCon Debate YouTube Does Not Want You To Watch

A reasoned debate on mass immigration and Europe’s future was enough to bring down the shutters at the world’s biggest video platform.

Javier Villamor

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July 30, 2026

NEWS

URGENT! YouTube Bans EuroCon Video, Rejects Appeal in One Minute

The episode of The Forge podcast on remigration with Renaud Camus, Martin Sellner and Harrison Pitt has been removed.

TEC News

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July 29, 2026

NEWS

Italy’s Justice Fault Line: The Case That Put Self-Defence on Trial

Italy jails a jeweller who shot armed robbers, reigniting a fierce battle over self-defence and whether justice protects criminals over victims.

Hélène de Lauzun

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July 29, 2026

NEWS

Magyar’s Presidential Fiasco Sparks Poll Slump

Voter surveys suggest that nearly two-thirds of the new Hungarian government’s own voters are dissatisfied with the lack of civic engagement in key decisions.

Tamás Orbán

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July 29, 2026

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Women Without Penises Not Welcome in the Irish LGBT Asylum

The state-subsidised Féile an Phobail (Festival of the People) propaganda festival declared that women without penises were not welcome to hold meetings as they were not inclusive of ‘women with penises.’

Declan Hayes

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July 28, 2026

European Council President António Costa arrives for a dinner of the Coalition of the Willing at the Elysée Palace in Paris on July 13, 2026.
COMMENTARY

When Portugal Abolished ‘ICE’

How António Costa’s criminal lack of scruples doomed Portugal’s demographic future.

Miguel Nunes Silva

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July 27, 2026

COMMENTARY

The Market Has Reached the Womb

Surrogacy is often presented as an act of compassion. But once pregnancy becomes a service and parenthood a contract, the market has crossed a profound moral boundary.

Michael J Robinson

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July 25, 2026

COMMENTARY

The Death of the Irish Canon

Irish parents and grandparents should recognise that their children’s future is being shortchanged by the same deception that led France from 1789 to Waterloo.

Declan Hayes

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July 24, 2026

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The Noble Savage and the Woke Citizen

Rousseau sought to liberate humanity by restoring it to an original innocence. Woke culture pursues a remarkably similar objective through what it calls the deconstruction of inherited civilization.

Juan Carlos Aguilera Pérez

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July 23, 2026

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The Feminization of the Icelandic State

How sex equality became imbalance in “the world’s most equal country.”

Íris Erlingsdóttir

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July 22, 2026

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Ann Widdecombe: A Trailblazing Convert

Miss Widdecombe was a politician very much in the spirit of St. Thomas More, always letting her faith drive her commitment to public service, staying true to her principles to the bitter end.

Matthew Showering

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July 21, 2026

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates onstage during the ‘Alight Align Arise: Advancing the Movement for Repair National Conference’ at Thompson Buckhead on June 7, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia
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Nation and Race and Ta-Nehisi Coates

In 2015, Coates became the moral beacon of Western liberals by hurling regurgitated antisemitic vitriol at all white Americans, specifically including Jews. Now the bill is coming due.

Andrew Nutting

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July 20, 2026

COMMENTARY

Last Hope of the Holy Land’s Christians

The birthplace of Christianity is in danger of losing its indigenous Christian communities. A recent visit to Jerusalem and the West Bank revealed both the severity of their plight and the practical ways in which they can still be helped.

Declan Hayes

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July 19, 2026

COMMENTARY

The Smartphone and the Disorder of Modernity

The phone—and technology in general—must be restored to its place in the natural hierarchy: subordinate to higher ends and aspirations, rather than becoming the anchor around which modern life is ordered.

Alexandros Dolgov

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July 18, 2026

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The COVID Control Regime Built on False Certainties

A scathing U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee report backs a probable laboratory origin for COVID-19, finds no quantitative basis for the six-foot rule, and argues that officials overstated the vaccines’ ability to prevent infection and transmission.

Javier Villamor

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July 30, 2026

U.S. President Donald Trump and Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman converse as they walk down the Colonnade on the way to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on November 18, 2025.
Analysis

What To Make of the U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal?

The two-year examination period before uranium enrichment technology is actually transferred to the KSA may be long enough to realize that the deal is not good for anyone.

Mario Alexis Portella

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July 29, 2026

Analysis

The Expensive Road to Nowhere

More defense spending, more climate redistribution—the EU spins the biggest wealth transfer machine yet.

Thomas Kolbe

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July 17, 2026

Analysis

Why Ideology Is the Wrong Lens for Understanding China

Has Europe gradually become so committed to institutional uniformity that it has unintentionally reduced one of the principal engines of its own historical success: competition among jurisdictions?

Joaquim Sá Couto

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July 16, 2026

Analysis

The French Guiana Paradox: Europe’s Most Porous Strategic Frontier

Persistent exploitation of legal loopholes in an EU outermost region erodes Europe's sovereignty claims and creates opportunities for criminal and state-adjacent networks.

Antoine Bachelin Sena

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July 10, 2026

Analysis

The Bitter End of Germany’s Anti-Fascist Identity

Anti-fascism in Germany has changed from a militant fringe concern into the moral common sense of its educated middle classes. One consequence of this is that the label ‘fascist’ now makes violence less objectionable.

Maren Thom

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July 9, 2026

Analysis

Le Pen Back in the Race: A Daring Bet

Marine Le Pen launches a high-stakes 2027 presidential bid, turning her legal battle into the defining gamble of the campaign.

Hélène de Lauzun

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July 8, 2026

Analysis

From Digital Euro to Chat Control: The Risk of Function Creep

Brussels frames the digital euro, age verification, and Chat Control as separate solutions to real issues, but together they highlight who controls the digital infrastructure shaping everyday life in Europe.

Javier Villamor

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July 6, 2026

Analysis

After the Excommunication of SSPX: What Now?

The largest Catholic traditionalist society has been excommunicated from the Church. What now for the Latin Mass and doctrinally conservative Catholics?

Thomas Colsy

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July 6, 2026

Analysis

The Digital Euro and Europe’s Quest for Monetary Sovereignty

Sovereignty in the 21st century is no longer measured solely by territory, military capability, or political institutions. It increasingly depends on who controls the infrastructure that enables economies to function.

Nicoletta Kouroushi

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July 6, 2026

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“Why should culture be bound by specific modern borders?”—Archaeologist Mario Trabucco della Torretta

“If we allow heritage to be stripped of its significance and handed over to competing tribes, we won't just lose our museums—we will lose the ability to see ourselves in the history of others.”

Rafael Pinto Borges

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July 26, 2026

A lone Greek-Cypriot protestor cries during an anti-occupation protest in Nicosia, 20 July, on the 24th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of northern Cyprus.
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Brussels’ Silence on Turkish Occupation of Cyprus “Cowardice in a Diplomat’s Suit”—Head of Office to MEP Afroditi Latinopoulou Emmanouil Koulas

“Brussels stays quiet because Ankara holds two levers over Europe: an illegal migration tap that it can open or shut at will, and a seat on NATO’s southern flank which nobody wants to lose.”

Uzay Bulut

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July 23, 2026

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Satire in the Age of Cancel Culture

For German cartoonist Bernd Zeller, the more sacred the political consensus becomes, the richer the material.

Sabine Beppler-Spahl

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July 15, 2026

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In the Last Three Years, More Than 150,000 People Have Entered Greece Illegally—Researcher Ioannis Kolovos

“No matter which immigration policy has been followed in Europe, they have all failed because they did not meet two criteria: very small numbers and cultural proximity.”

Uzay Bulut

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July 14, 2026

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“American independence was largely financed with Spanish money”: An Interview with Jorge Luis García Ruiz

A discussion with the author of Revolution, which recovers a little-known chapter of history: Spain’s decisive contribution to American independence.

Álvaro Peñas | Marzena Kożyczkowska

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June 30, 2026

Interview

“Europe must formulate a unified strategy to protect its borders” —Journalist and Political Advisor Rafail Kaliviotis

“The comparative advantage of the West has always resided in its rich cultural capital.”

Uzay Bulut

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June 25, 2026

Interview

Pío Moa and the Spanish Civil War

“Few leftists remember that the amnesty law, created in 1978 during Spain’s transition to democracy, also pardoned communists and separatist terrorists.”

Kurt Hofer

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June 22, 2026

Interview

Christianity Is the New Counterculture: Why Young Men Are Seeking the Church

“Previous generations gave poor answers, stemming from the dictatorship of relativism, expressed by saying, ‘it is good if it is true for you; it just isn't true for me.’ That is superficial,” Father Daniel Ebert Steiner says.

Liv Klingert

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June 21, 2026

Interview

The Man Who Wants the AfD To Win—German Ex-Boxer Wolfgang Blume

East Germans are flocking to the AfD because they’ve lived through socialism once, Wolfgang Blume says—and they can see it returning in the increasingly socialist policies of the establishment parties.

Sabine Beppler-Spahl

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June 15, 2026

Interview

“Europe Needs Long-Term Migration Policies, Not Permanent Emergency Responses”—Migration Expert Beatriz de León Cobo

“Migration is a structural reality that will remain part of Europe for decades to come.”

Javier Villamor

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June 4, 2026

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