EU
France is too Catholic to forgive Britain for Brexit
Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson famously said that the National Health Service is the nearest thing we British have to a…
The problem with the EU’s messianic treatment of Poland
Mateusz Morawiecki insists his government does not want to take Poland out of the EU. ‘Eighty-eight per cent of Poles…
Is the European centre collapsing?
There’s a growing tension in the European bloc between those unhappy with Brussels’s increasing interventionism and by those who feel the…
Macron may well win. But Macronism is dead
President Emmanuel Macron was in an expansive mood this week as he commandeered the splendid beaux arts Grand Palais in…
David Frost's protocol diplomacy
As a general rule in post-Brexit politics, when David Frost makes a public intervention on the Northern Ireland protocol, it…
Poland's top court has finally called the EU's bluff
For many years, the EU has posed as a kind of overbearing imperial leviathan, which insists its law has to prevail over…
Von der Leyen is the real winner of the German elections
The bald guy who leads the Social Democrats. The earnest looking Green lady. Or perhaps the guy in the charcoal-grey…
German voters set for a tense night
The German elections have turned out to be an unexpected nail-biter. Since the exit polls were released earlier this evening…
The EU should keep out of France's spat with Australia
Ursula von der Leyen has demanded a full investigation. EU officials are considering pulling out of technology talks with the…
The sad circus of the German election
The German election campaign has been entirely lacking in substance. Laschet, Baerbock, Scholz: none seem to grip the public’s attention.…
Aukus is a disaster for the EU
It is hard to overstate the importance of the so-called Aukus alliance between the US, the UK and Australia —…
Donald Tusk is playing a dangerous game in dismissing Polexit
‘The British showed that the dictatorship of the Brussels bureaucracy did not suit them and turned around and left.’ That’s…
Is the EU trying to hamstring the French military?
Much recent discussion has focussed on the collapse of Afghanistan and the decline of the West. The humiliating American-led Western…
In defence of cruel foods
Fishmongers are an endangered species in London. Thankfully, 15 minutes walk across Westminster from The Spectator’s offices there is an…
How will Europe respond to a wave of Afghan refugees?
On Tuesday, Franek Sterczewski made a break for the border. Wearing a long trench coat and carrying a blue plastic…
Fortress Europe is dreading the Afghan migrant crisis
Fortress Europe is pulling up the drawbridge. The takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban is likely to being about a…
Europe will suffer as Germany drifts
Over the last 15 years Germany has come to be seen by many in Europe as a paragon of political…
Poles apart: The EU will never understand Poland
Poland was the largest state in Europe for over two centuries. It was a multi-ethnic commonwealth, a refuge for Jews,…
Guy Verhofstadt claims Olympic gold for the EU
Who is on top of the gold medal table at the Tokyo Olympics? China? The United States? According to former European…
Why is the EU attending the butcher of Tehran’s inauguration?
At the beginning of the year Donald Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, was forced to hastily cancel a diplomatic…
The EU’s woeful response to the collapse of Tunisian democracy
For a political actor that ‘believes in the universal value of democracy and the rights of the individual,’ as the…
Hungary, Poland and the EU’s ‘diversity’ problem
It is quite something when the self-proclaimed ‘illiberal’ prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, reminds Brussels of its liberal principles.…
The EU is failing to stand up for eastern Europe
Will the EU stand up for eastern Europe? This question is now being asked by Ukraine following the announcement of…
The EU’s menacing rule of law power grab
Officially the European Union may be a union of sovereign states. But its Commission increasingly has the air of an…
Boris's Brexit deal isn’t worth sacrificing Northern Ireland for
There will be chaos at the borders. Food will run out at the supermarkets. Travellers will face long queues, and…
