Whether this new ‘European Political Community’ will indeed become a ‘United Nations in Europe,’ so dubbed by Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda, remains to be seen. As of now, it bears all the hallmarks of just the latest talk shop.

The establishment’s cowardice leaves no place for honesty. It is a safe, risk-averse, and timid strategy for those without guiding principles or will to follow them. As Mikhail Bulgakov once wrote, “cowardice is the most terrible of vices.”

Erdoğan either has the best of intentions for Turkey or is simply in love with power. The fact that he has altered the presidential voting system and extended his term of office in the process suggest the latter.

“It is quite possible that disaster relief will be needed within the EU,” EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič (EPP) warned.

According to Cardinal Gerhard Müller, if the Church is to recover the salvific message of Christ, it must renounce the German Synodal Path, theories of “papal autocracy,” and transhumanism.

Demonstrators called for the government’s resignation, sanctions against Russia to be scrapped, and for the country’s withdrawal from NATO, the EU, UN, and the WHO.

For the Italians, there is no ‘fascism’ attached to Giorgia Meloni. Her coalition is centre-right, full stop. On the other side of the Alps, the repeated use of the word ‘fascist’ dispenses with any nuanced analysis; few articles actually look at Meloni’s programme.

Evil leadership is no leadership at all. Nor is insane nor stupid leadership either. So let us look at their opposite qualities, which in fact define real, true leadership.

VOX president Santiago Abascal was also in attendance, unlike the new leader of the center-right People’s Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

The spark which set the tinder alight was the suspicious death of Mahsa Amini, who had been detained by Iran’s morality police because she wore the hijab too loosely.

The summer university is a must for political parties when they return from their summer holidays. But this is the first time since 1987 that the Rassemblement National has taken part in the exercise.

With Giorgia Meloni expected to win Sunday’s election in Italy, Ursula von der Leyen has hinted at possible reprisals: “If things go in a difficult direction, we have the tools.” Italians fume.