VOX and PP are cooperating at a regional level, while the Spanish Left warns that a national coalition between the centre and populist Right could alter the European balance of power.

The EU is resisting lobbying by the Gulf States to drop sanctions against Assad as recent terrorist attacks and deaths on the Mediterranean underlined Syria’s continued relevance to EU policymakers.

The independent economist Ľudovít Ódor is the third Slovakian Prime Minister to have his mandate revoked by political scheming in two years.

The controversial vote to reject the directive ended in a draw, shocking conservatives.

While Germany’s first-ever national security strategy remains cautious on the China question, it is considerably less so on the Russian one, naming Moscow the “most significant threat to peace and security in the Euro-Atlantic area.”

It is evident that the prospect of closer ties with France is very much on China’s radar—and understandably so, France’s trust would be an immeasurable boon to the extension of China’s influence through Europe and the curtailing of the U.S.’s influence. 

To gain Spanish residency, foreign women are reportedly flying to Spain on tourist visas and abandoning their children, who later claim to be unaccompanied minor refugees in an effort to take advantage of Spain’s family reunification policy.

The decline of the European political centre continues, albeit at a modest pace as a potential ECR-EPP alliance will likely be a major point of contention following next year’s elections.

Poland’s climate minister said “there is no analysis of the social and economic impact” of banning the combustion engine, “which is scandalous.”

The last three remaining German nuclear plants shut down in April could have provided 25% of the country’s needed household energy.

The sole reason is to get more leftist votes, MEP Tom Vandendriessche told The European Conservative, but added that the youth might no longer be as susceptible to the progressive messages as Brussels thinks.

The Fratelli d’Italia party is capitalising on the Italian state’s failure to recognise Islam as an official religion to radically clamp down on what structures Muslims can turn into prayer space.