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Nov 8, 2025
The government of Italy’s Giorgia Meloni is now the third-longest in the history of the post-war Italian republic. Her polling has been stable, with Meloni’s...
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Oct 29, 2025
In an interview with Politico Europe, Balázs Orbán, political director for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, revealed that Budapest would...
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Oct 8, 2025
There has been plenty of scaremongering over Russia’s activities in the past ten years. From the Russiagate hoax in Washington to slandering any populist-right party –...
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Sep 17, 2025
Eighteen! That’s the number of sanction packages which have been passed on Russia by the European Union since the expansion of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022. They have been...
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Sep 13, 2025
The European Commission has not had the best year. It started off with the man they all hoped would go away, Donald Trump, returning to the American presidency.
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Sep 8, 2025
It is far from ground-breaking to say that the populist Right is surging across the West.
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Aug 28, 2025
Chaos! That seems to be the name of the game when it comes to French politics the past few years. Prime Minister François Bayrou has announced a vote of...
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Aug 20, 2025
The White House meetings on August 18 between President Donald Trump and eight European leaders were extraordinary for a variety of reasons. For one, never had so many high-profile...
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Jul 28, 2025
The trade deal on July 27 between America and the European Union was disastrous for Europe. The Financial Times described it as “the EU [succumbing] to...
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Jul 23, 2025
Ukraine’s parliament sent jitters through Brussels this week with the passage of a bill which would strip independence from two anti-corruption bodies – the...
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Jul 18, 2025
President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course earlier this month when he decided to send Patriot missiles, along with other possibly offensive weaponry, to Ukraine, provided that...
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Jul 11, 2025
Ever since Donald Trump arrived on the world stage, liberal internationalists have thrown one particular insult his way: “Isolationist!” Kaja Kallas, the European...
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Jul 2, 2025
It’s no secret that Europe has a serious problem with free speech. I have covered the topic multiple times, as there is unfortunately no end to the laundry list...
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Jun 28, 2025
The Trump administration’s recognition that the world is now multipolar was groundbreaking. No presidential administration since before the Cold War saw the world in...
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Jun 25, 2025
This week marks the latest NATO summit. Hosted by The Hague, it will see the leaders of all 32 NATO member states – plus New Zealand, Ukraine, and the European Union –...
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Jun 13, 2025
On June 5 in Brussels, a duo were arrested for disturbing the peace. The pair, a man and a woman, were not assaulting anyone, nor were they threatening anyone. If anything,...
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May 27, 2025
The Austrian People’s Party is the Western hemisphere’s longest-serving government party, having been in the government as a senior or junior coalition partner...
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May 20, 2025
Last Sunday’s election results were something of a wash for the populist-right. In Romania, nationalist George Simion lost his presidential election to a moderate centrist. In...
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May 7, 2025
When the Romanian establishment blocked presidential candidate Călin Georgescu from running, they seemingly believed that they were doing themselves a favour.
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May 5, 2025
It is not every day that a country stands up to the People’s Republic of China, particularly one as small as Lithuania. But Lithuania has, in the past five years, thumbed its...
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Apr 29, 2025
It does not take a political scientist to understand that the Western populist-right has been on a roll lately. In literally every corner of the Western world – from the United...
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Apr 15, 2025
Donald Trump is helping galvanize an international movement of the nationalist right.
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Apr 10, 2025
When one looks at Europe’s responses to the threats which have faced it in the past few years – the Trump administration demanding they defend themselves, Russia’s...
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Apr 3, 2025
Amidst the constant establishmentarian lawfare – or, from the establishment perspective, the rise of norm-shattering populists – that question is repeating in the heads...
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Mar 14, 2025
Walking away from an expensive peripheral air base fits neatly with several of the Trump administration’s priorities.
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Mar 11, 2025
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s blowup in the Oval Office was the end of what should have been an obvious chain of events. The press has...
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Feb 24, 2025
From the beginning of the Trump administration, Brussels-based officials have been struck by the new president’s complete lack of desire to deal with them. When they...
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Feb 17, 2025
For a moment last week, it appeared that European Union officials finally had realised that the 20th century was never coming back.
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Feb 13, 2025
Nearly everywhere in the West, the centre-right is being replaced as the “mainstream” political party by the populist-right. The latest victim is the British Conservative...
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Feb 6, 2025
President Donald Trump’s decision to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has left Democrats reeling and knees quaking in Brussels....
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Jan 30, 2025
President Donald Trump returned to the White House on a promise to reform America's foreign policy, transitioning away from the idea of "spreading democracy" and refocusing...
Jun 28, 2025The Trump administration’s recognition that the world is now multipolar was groundbreaking. No presidential administration since before the Cold War saw the world in...
Mar 11, 2025President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s blowup in the Oval Office was the end of what should have been an obvious chain of events. The press has...