A story about a four-year-old child named “Eileen” who was purportedly lost and feared dead after crossing the Polish-Belarusian border in 2021 has been exposed as fake. In December 2021…

Donald Tusk told allies he may only be PM for a year, and then return to Brussels to succeed Ursula von der Leyen as European Commission president. Tusk made the statements in coalition negotiations…

Much of the media broadcasting from Poland want us to believe that the biggest challenge for the new liberal government in Warsaw is judicial reform. More specifically, they claim it is to break the…

updates with latest developments* EC President Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed that the Commission is ready to drop conditions it had set the previous Polish Conservative (PiS) government in order…

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) held a weekend-long demonstration of strength.

Polish Government television’s (TVP) main evening news channel i9.30 and German public TV Deutsche Welle (DW) have broadcast seemingly identical material. The new Polish Government has made no secret…

The Armenian ambassador-designate to the EU says his country expects Azerbaijan to invade “within weeks.” Azerbaijan will follow up the capitulation of Nagorno-Karabakh with an attack on Armenia…

The European Commission has accepted a European initiative called ‘Air-Quotas’ which aims to introduce carbon quotas for all citizens in order to reduce their consumption. First, they admit that it...

Does the rule of law apply only to Central and Eastern European countries and conservative governments? This is the embarrassing question raised by PM Pedro Sánchez and Catalan separatists…

Charlie Weimers, a leading MEP for the Sweden Democrats and vice-chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, says a Swedish exit from the European Union must be considered if the EU…

The man who stabbed a German police officer in his neck in a brutal attack turned out to be illegally in Germany for nine years.

Geert Wilders and his right-wing Freedom Party (PVV) have won the November 22 election in spectacular fashion. The PVV party outperformed all predictions and more than doubled in size. From 17 seats…

2023 has been an important year for conservative and Right-wing parties in Europe. 2024, however, will be truly decisive. If the general trend turns into European Parliament seats in June…

German airline Lufthansa has demanded €740,000 in damages from environmental hardliners “Last Generation” for blockading air traffic. The radical green ideologues have carried out several disruptive…

The Muslim Brotherhood has achieved so much influence in Brussels that local politicians now need its support to win elections, according to a French academic who researches the organisation.

The Armenian Ambassador to the European Union has rejected claims that Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians have no reason to fear the Azerbaijani occupation. Contradicting statements by Azerbaijani officials…

After last November’s attack on a Dublin Catholic school, graffiti reading “Irish lives matter” appeared on the Falls Road in West Belfast. It is a location that is no stranger to wall sloganeering…

The European Commission has been granting NGOs the power to patrol the web under the Digital Services Act (DSA), the body has said in a written statement.

The UK economy has done better than the Eurozone’s, according to newly published economic data from the European Commission. Despite widespread criticism of the British peoples’ choice for Brexit in…

Ursula von der Leyen has this morning delivered her State of the Union speech. Despite what she said, the picture is not pretty. Although it sounds like a trope, the European Union is standing at a…

Elchin Amirbayov, envoy of Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev, rejects EU claims that his country is eyeing territory in neighbouring Armenia after border clashes led to at least four deaths.

Two Swedish economists have issued a warning that the country’s wind-power industry is on the brink of a wave of bankruptcies. Christian Sandström and Christian Steinbeck analysed wind-power compan...

A few months ago Brussels Signal warned that the freedom of speech and expression in the European Union would be endangered by the European Parliament’s resolution on hate speech. Two recent incide...

A nationalist party in Belgium has demanded that the country holds a referendum on the European Union Migration Pact. Vlaams Belang, currently the most popular party in Belgium…

Teachers warned against lowering the voting age to 16 shortly after polling data showed that the youth in the country are shifting to the right.

A Polish court has ruled that the decision by culture minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz to “liquidate” the country’s public television and radio stations is invalid. The minister refused to accept the…

If demographic replacement is undisputedly taking place somewhere in the EU, that place is Cyprus. The once predominantly Greek island and former British colony in the Eastern Mediterranean entered…

Friday 22 March will mark 100 days of Donald Tusk’s government. It is a symbolic milestone, having pledged to push through 100 liberalising reforms in his first 100 days. Only a few promises have...

Support for Ursula von der Leyen within the European Parliament is now on a knife-edge, with new polling has predicted

South Africa has signalled its intention to withdraw from UN conventions in a bid to rein in immigration and return migrants to safe countries. Aaron Motsoaledi, the Minister of Home Affairs for...

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 nothing of American…

Marine Le Pen reaffirmed her ambition to create a hard right supergroup in the European Parliament after the EU elections.

Azerbaijan has started desecrating the graves of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, the head of Armenia’s mission to the European Union has claimed.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany needed to start deporting migrants who do not have the right to stay in the country “on a large scale”. The Socialist leader seems to have made the fight against…

Let us look first at the Europe which has just had these elections. Then we will look at the political results. Europe today is a continent crumbling under the weight of massive overregulation and…

A 13-year-old French schoolgirl was so severely beaten up by a gang of other teens she had to be placed in an induced coma. Two days after the attack, on April 4 her mother said there was a religious…

A new alliance of Nordic centre-right MEPs have declared they will not support Ursula von der Leyen, viewing her too close to the European Greens.

Austria is required to get the permission of the European Union before it passes any laws regulating the use of cash in the country

In 2010, the now German minister of the economy Robert Habeck wrote, in his book published that year, that “patriotism, love of country, that makes me want to vomit”. This was a typical sentiment…

High crime levels in Sweden are pushing rescue workers to drastic measures; those in the city of Uppsala, near Stockholm, will be equipped with bulletproof vests. Swedish trade union magazine…

Before she came to power, many thought that Giorgia Meloni would be an Italian Viktor Orban. Two years later, it is obvious that she is not. Her hardline rhetoric did not translate into deeds....

The Dutch province of Utrecht announced it will switch back to fossil fuel to relieve the overworked electricity grid, as the road to net-zero in the Netherlands hits some major obstacles.

Poland has repeatedly been ahead of its time. Now, Donald Tusk is initiating a trend heralding a new era of liberal autocracy in Europe. The 1848 Spring of Nations had erupted in Poland ten years…

France, the UK and the United States are all “arguably” colonial powers, Ireland’s Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, has claimed.

Last Thursday, in a worrying development for freedom of speech in Europe, the European Parliament voted to add hate speech and hate crime to the list of ‘EU Crimes’. EU Crimes, such as terrorism and…

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche distinguished between three kinds of history: The monumental, the antiquarian, and the critical. Generally speaking, it is never a good sign for a…

With Europe’s Christian identity in the crosshairs, Christmas is under fire, both literally and metaphorically. On the one hand, extremists threaten to target festive gatherings and celebrations.

Euro MP Nicolas Bay says he and his hard-right colleagues from France have remained immune to the reach-reduction phenomenon that has hit right-wing MEPs from other countries. In an interview with…

Politicians on the German right have expressed their fury after it was revealed their country’s foreign ministry has begun advertising citizenship in Arabic.

There are many reasons to criticise a conference dedicated to solving the issue of climate change, especially if it hosts almost 80,000 participants, many of them flying into Dubai from the remotest…

Gender policies have become a major dividing line in contemporary politics. Divisions over the LGBTQ agenda run deep, as it now goes way beyond the rights of a social minority. Rather…

A supposedly serious Bloomberg headline is setting the tone for the new year: “2024 is the Year of Elections and That’s a Threat to Democracy”. As expected, the usual suspects in the mainstream media…

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) is sounding an alarm over the potential negative effects of building wind farms at sea. European countries are banking heavily on offshore wind farms but Europe’s…

The rule of law has featured high on the EU’s agenda during the current term. Over the last five years, the Commission triggered the conditionality mechanism for the first time, blocked huge sums of…

The European Commission has amended its climate targets, set just last month, after farmers succeeded in changing the agenda via violent Brussels protests. EU environment ministers met in Brussels…

Poland’s ruling Conservative (PiS) party has signalled that a deal involving enlargement of the European Union in exchange for treaty changes that expand the powers of EU institutions is not…

It appears that the PM employs Greece’s defence budget in order to pursue his personal ambitions

Javier Milei has publicly berated the growing influence of Western ‘Neo-Marxists’ at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

Twitter will launch a legal challenge against forthcoming hate speech laws in Ireland, Elon Musk has announced.

In 2007, Philippe Legrain published the book Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them with Princeton University Press in which he claimed that “sober-minded economists reckon that the potential gains from…

The revolution is postponed – but not necessarily cancelled. Now that the final results of the EU parliamentary elections are trickling in, it is time to assess what to expect for the next five years.

There is still a lot of speculation about the wannabe assassin of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. While some outlets claim that the prime suspect is a member of Antifa…

The launch of a new hard-right “Europe of Sovereign Nations” group is “imminent”, sources have told Brussels Signal.

In a surge of violent attacks, conservative and far-Right politicians are being targeted by extremists all around Europe. The trend is becoming worrying. At the same time, crimes and assaults against…

There is “nothing” that EU authorities can do that will prevent migrants from entering the continent, the head of the bloc’s border control agency has said. Hans Leijtens, the executive director of…

A criminal court in Belgium has convicted a 21-year-old Islamist of plotting to assassinate Bart De Wever, President of the N-VA party and Mayor of Antwerp. Identified by the court under the alias of…

Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities famously begins: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief…

The last year has shown significant shortcomings when it comes to West’s ability to use economic statecraft as a tool in international politics. Almost all schemes developed to weaken potential…

From Frederic Bastiat’s The Law to John Rawls’s Theory of Justice, the basic premise of liberal philosophy has always been equality before the law: Freedom and justice are attained when the law…

The Joe Biden administration has been slammed for its “silence” regarding Donald Tusk’s anti-media clampdown in Poland.

Flemish Interest, which seeks the end of Belgium and the creation of a Flemish state, is set to become the country’s largest party after this year’s elections. Leader Tom Van Grieken came to the…

Portugal’s hard-right party Chega has emerged as the big winner in elections. Although it is not yet known who will be part of the coalition in the next government, Chega’s leader says that if it…

The European Union’s economy is expected to struggle significantly in 2024 as others see substantial growth, newly published research by the OECD has predicted.

A left-wing mayor has used the police like a “private militia” to crush a conservative conference, Eric Zemmour, said.

It is disappointing to see the wave of synchronised credulity with which Europe has fallen in behind the tired and mistaken argument that Israel is obliged to show proportionality in its response to…

Hungary won’t meet European Union demands to amend controversial laws on asylum seekers and on restricting LGBTQ content, a senior minister said, making it less likely that Budapest will be able to…