Macron wants to be France’s protector-in-chief
It has long been said by some of Emmanuel Macron’s opponents that he is a president who ‘governs by fear’.…
Could a headscarf row bring down France’s government?
Might a headscarf bring down France’s coalition government? The question of whether the Islamic garment should be permitted on the…
Emmanuel Macron has Trump déjà vu
Emmanuel Macron hosted Mark Carney at the Elysee on Monday as both France and Canada work out how best to…
Calin Georgescu is a victim of illiberal Europe
Violence erupted in Bucharest on Sunday evening after Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau disbarred Calin Georgescu from standing in May’s re-run…
What Reform can learn from France’s National Rally
The crisis currently ripping apart Reform is nothing new to Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party. Indeed, the reason her…
‘Low-cost’ jihadists are Europe’s new danger
There is a new Islamist terror threat in Europe that the French describe as ‘low-cost terrorism’. The expression was deployed…
Macron’s late-night address will infuriate Trump and Vance
Emmanuel Macron spoke to his people last night in a television address and told them that the future of Ukraine…
Is Macron a ‘danger for peace’ in Ukraine?
Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are in competition to be the de facto leader of the European response to the…
Europe can’t silence its working class forever
Last December the European Commission published its ‘priorities’ for the next five years. All the bases were covered, from defence…
Trump and Macron’s backslapping masks a rocky relationship
It would be a stretch to describe Emmanuel Macron’s meeting with Donald Trump as a ‘bromance’, but there were plenty…
France’s National Rally has lost its way
Jordan Bardella flew to America last week on a trip he had long boasted about. The president of the National…
Will Macron get tough on Algeria over the French knife attack?
Emmanuel Macron will hold talks with Donald Trump on Monday at which the President of France will attempt to ‘make…
Christoph Heusgen is just another arrogant boomer
Historians will look back on the tears of Christoph Heusgen as a defining moment of the early 21st century. When the…
The Nigerian drug mafia is heading for Britain
It’s an established fact that most of Britain’s drug trade is controlled by Albanians. There is some competition from Turks…
Europe has much to learn from Georgia Meloni
Giorgia Meloni was nearly an hour late for Monday’s European crisis summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris. According to…
Can Europe stand on its own two feet against Russia?
The United States is no longer an ‘ally’ of Europe, according to a former high-ranking figure in Nato. In an…
Europe should listen to America’s uncomfortable truths
The response in Europe to J.D Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference last Friday was one of predictable outrage.…
JD Vance is right. Europe is in peril
On Wednesday evening, a man threw a fragmentation grenade into a café in Grenoble, leaving 15 people injured. The following…
How the judiciary fuel Europe’s migrant crisis
If Europeans wanted evidence that it is judges and not politicians who run their countries this month has proved it.…
Why is Jean-Luc Melenchon talking about the ‘Great Replacement’ theory?
Jean-Luc Melenchon has broken a taboo in French, and Western, politics. The de facto leader of the French left, whose…
Donald Trump’s challenge to the European Union
There is a wind of change blowing through the West. It emanates from Washington DC, where Donald Trump continues to…
Is a ‘Trump tornado’ about to tear through Europe?
There is a wind of change blowing through the West. It emanates from Washington DC, where Donald Trump continues to…
Macron needs to find his inner Trump
If a week is a long time in politics then eight years is an eternity. Just ask Donald Trump and…
Why is Spain so anti-Trump?
Spain has been receiving some lavish praise of late in the British press. ‘Booming Spain is on track to a…
Europe is feeling the strain of mass immigration
Britain can’t cope, that was the response of Nigel Farage to last week’s disclosure by the Office for National Statistics that…
