Success stories in the EU are easily told — mostly because there are none. This makes the path charted by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni all the more remarkable. In Brussels’ long shadow, she is drawing new ideological lines. When…
NEUSS, GERMANY — While the U.S. is working on its industrial comeback, the EU/Europe holds course, perfecting its climate socialism. In the Netherlands, we can see in practice what this really means. Without keeping you in suspense too long, it’s…
It has been a grueling campaign to achieve essentially the status quo. Conservative historian Karol Nawrocki, informally affiliated with the Law and Justice (PiS) party that led governments from 2015 to 2023, won a dramatic victory in Poland’s presidential contest…
Bulgaria is expected to become the 21st member of the Eurozone in 2026. But Euro expansionism is not a sign of economic strength — it is the last gasp of a declining project, a classic symptom of decay. The European…
There is some truth in the message of Henry Kissinger’s famous remark “Who do I call if I want to call Europe?” It is not just about the indeterminacy of foreign policy in Europe ( the “coalition of the willing”…
Culture is more than galleries and symphonies. It’s not just what hangs on a wall or flickers on a stage — it’s what pulses through the streets. How people live. How they treat each other. What they tolerate, and what…
Donald Trump has run out of patience with Brussels. Effective June 1st, the president announced via Truth Social that tariffs on imports from the European Union will rise to a staggering 50 percent. Did EU bureaucrats really believe they could…
DÜSSELDORF, Germany — The European Union remains, at least in theory, a union of sovereign nation-states. Even within the nearly identical Eurozone, national budget sovereignty still prevails. But now, through a mix of war rhetoric and Putin panic, efforts are…
DÜSSELDORF, Germany — The general state debt spiral should be a constant feature in daily headlines. Its prominence should force policymakers into a radical fiscal turnaround. Yet while Germany is working under immense pressure to ban the AfD, forming alliances…
