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Nov 13, 2024
The collapse of the German traffic light coalition of the Social Democrats (red), Greens (green), and Free Democrats (amber), isn’t either surprising or altogether unwelcome.
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Nov 7, 2024
A glance at Western European media is all that is needed to be reminded once again of how little Europe understands America.
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Oct 30, 2024
There is more than the usual curiosity that accompanies news of budgetary disappointment in an important country in the case of the shambles of public accounts now under review by an...
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Oct 23, 2024
Part of the astonishingly clumsy launch of the Starmer government in the UK is the inexplicable faith, frozen in aspic, of the new prime minister and his senior colleagues, that...
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Aug 28, 2024
It was a widespread assumption that French president Emmanuel Macron called the unnecessary parliamentary elections in June and July on the assumption that the Rassemblement National...
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Aug 14, 2024
The recent rioting in Britain, which has been the most peaceable and law-abiding, heavily populated, country in the Western world for centuries, does not indicate the rise of ...
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Aug 7, 2024
Perhaps my perception from North America of European official attitudes is incomplete, but a reasonably thorough hunt around the internet has given me the impression that almost none...
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Jul 31, 2024
The opening ceremony to the Paris Olympics contained an element that was ghastly and profoundly offensive in itself, and echoes more loudly as it ricochets around media and official...
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Jul 10, 2024
The much and in fact excessively anticipated fear of a lurch to the Right in the French elections has not occurred and the widely anticipated movement to the Left in the British...
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Jun 26, 2024
Carl Bildt, a former prime minister and foreign minister of Sweden and senior official in various capacities of the European Union, has long been one of the most rational and...
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Jun 19, 2024
The European elections last week, as has been amply aired in the Brussels Signal, did not, as many aroused commentators claimed, indicate an alarming lurch to the potentially...
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Jun 10, 2024
Writing from a distance, the three principal lessons of the European elections on June 9 are that the former bêtes noires of the untouchable political right have...
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May 22, 2024
Those Europeans who for many years were accustomed to thinking of Americans as essentially similar in perspective to Europeans and as was often implied by prominent British...
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May 8, 2024
As the militant Islamic threat to many Western societies steadily gained strength from increasing immigration, a high birth rate among migrants, and sustained collective fervour, I...
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May 2, 2024
There has been a good deal of disappointment expressed about the performance of Italian premier Giorgia Meloni by those who saw her election in September 2022 at the head of the...
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Apr 10, 2024
There continues to be a great deal of apprehension in the conventional media of the Western European countries about the likely return of President Trump. In fact, to the extent that...
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Mar 27, 2024
The Conservative government in the United Kingdom shows every likelihood of being decisively defeated in the next election, later this year. It requires a bold and thick-skinned...
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Mar 6, 2024
Sir Gerald Howarth, a former British minister for International Security Strategy, has written a perceptive foreword to the new book The Music Stops, Net Zero and National...
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Feb 12, 2024
As extensive a scrutiny as can be conducted from North America of the leading Western European media outlets reveals with distressing clarity that Europe understands practically...
Jun 26, 2024Carl Bildt, a former prime minister and foreign minister of Sweden and senior official in various capacities of the European Union, has long been one of the most rational and...
Jun 19, 2024The European elections last week, as has been amply aired in the Brussels Signal, did not, as many aroused commentators claimed, indicate an alarming lurch to the potentially...
Jun 10, 2024Writing from a distance, the three principal lessons of the European elections on June 9 are that the former bêtes noires of the untouchable political right have...
May 22, 2024Those Europeans who for many years were accustomed to thinking of Americans as essentially similar in perspective to Europeans and as was often implied by prominent British...
May 8, 2024As the militant Islamic threat to many Western societies steadily gained strength from increasing immigration, a high birth rate among migrants, and sustained collective fervour, I...
May 2, 2024There has been a good deal of disappointment expressed about the performance of Italian premier Giorgia Meloni by those who saw her election in September 2022 at the head of the...
Mar 27, 2024The Conservative government in the United Kingdom shows every likelihood of being decisively defeated in the next election, later this year. It requires a bold and thick-skinned...
Mar 6, 2024Sir Gerald Howarth, a former British minister for International Security Strategy, has written a perceptive foreword to the new book The Music Stops, Net Zero and National...
Feb 12, 2024As extensive a scrutiny as can be conducted from North America of the leading Western European media outlets reveals with distressing clarity that Europe understands practically...