‘What does democracy look like today?…We have become socially liberal, while the government has become more federalist and centralized.’
‘The Commission considered Ukraine’s support to be more important than the protests at the national and sectoral level in the Member States and therefore pushed through the amendment to the trade agreement…’
‘In this age of political polarization, the rise of AI has created a world where we are quickly losing the ability to know what is real.’
‘Ostpolitik became the means for the Church to engage the Warsaw Pact nation-states under the pontificates of Popes John XXIII and Paul VI.’
‘A trade offensive against China is not a dinner party either, even though Trump and his advisers seem to have believed it would be.’
‘This does not exactly gel with the idea that Trump is some Putin sycophant, does it?’
‘Violent crime has arrived in a country where it was exceedingly rare. Iceland is now even a contributor to the online migrant-crime genre.’
‘Our world has changed, the international order has transformed, and every actor is trying to adapt. With the end of unipolarity, the hegemony of liberal foreign policy also ended…Free trade has given way to protectionism; moralizing, value-centric diplomacy has given way to transactional realism. However, this recognition apparently eludes the European Union.’
‘The debut of a Korean hypersonic missile prototype was one of the exhibition’s highlights, placing Seoul into an elite club.’
‘It is deeply symbolic that the 43rd UNESCO General Conference is taking place in Uzbekistan—a nation that has played a pivotal role in fostering regional peace and dialogue.’
‘The OTS has consistently emphasized that membership or observer status is reserved for countries with cultural or ethnic ties to the Turkic world’
‘The fact of the matter is that the apocalyptic scenario Democrats warned of in case Donald Trump was re-elected never materialized. After some market turmoil caused by President Trump’s tariff frenzy in the spring, things smoothed out real quick. The Democrats found themselves in desperate need to manufacture a crisis just to get the voters’ attention.’
‘To speak the obvious about demographic transformation, public safety, or cultural integration is to provoke a moral tempest that sweeps aside all debate and casts every doubt into the abyss of social damnation. This is not mere rhetorical excess. It is the lived reality of German public discourse in 2025, where statistical facts about migration are treated as heresy…’
‘Leftist media outlets lie. They lie all the time. The problem for our friend Tommaso here is that the La Repubblica meeting—which was conducted in English—was recorded on video and later uploaded online by Hungarian parliamentarian Balázs Orbán.’
‘Tory MPs seem to fluctuate between a state of aporia and a state of delusion.’
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It frequently turns out FT’s reporting is questionable at best, complete nonsense at worst. Practically fanfiction, even.
‘Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon insisted “wealthy, privileged” people were responsible for the protest campaign, despite polling data indicating a disproportionate number of spoiled votes being cast in disadvantaged areas.’
‘The danger is not that artificial intelligence will turn evil, but that we will forget how to discern good.’
‘“Religious Zionism”…keeps unsettling end-of-history pieties about confining faith and observance to the margins of the public square and smoothing out the nation state’s ethno-religious edges. Yet instead of cool-headed assessments precisely when it holds the keys to governability…the rise of this national-religious bloc of parties is often met by incurious moral hysteria.’
‘The conundrum, as stated above, is that Taiwan is treated by a great part of the international community as if it were a country of its own.’
The Daily Beast has reached new depths of Trump Derangement Syndrome, alleging that Donald Trump’s latest TIME magazine cover was inspired by a 1963 Newsweek portrait of Nazi industrialist Alfred Krupp—based solely on an Instagram ‘like’ by the photographer. TIME has dismissed the claim as ‘completely untrue’ and ‘reckless’.
‘Conservative governments of the Thatcher era recognized the damage the over-reach of the state in the economy could do to ideas of individual responsibility…’
‘Spain, France, and the UK have inherited not only migrants from their former colonies but also the cultural consequences of how those empires were built.’
‘Politico claims herds of antelopes and zebras are hidden away in the back garden of his countryside residence.’
The planned Trump–Putin summit in Budapest has exposed how modern diplomacy is waged through information warfare. Leaks, denials, and anonymous sources have flooded the media, as Brussels and Kyiv intensify efforts to block the meeting—fearing that a deal might emerge outside their control.
‘Taxpayers want European public funds to be used wisely. Supporting maternity and the family would be the most beneficial possible investment for Europe and its future.’
‘Székely suggests the presence of these “fake” obsersvers is evidence that Georgia is following “the example of countries such as Russia”.’
‘Large-scale projects are being implemented to develop digital infrastructure, introduce e-government, and digitalize education and healthcare systems.’
‘One major reason this story is suspect is because of how pointless such a spy ring would be. Getting gossip, including incredibly sensitive info on the internal workings of the Commission and other bodies, is extremely easy. Each week, my messaging apps are drowning in document leaks and the latest stories of who is sleeping with whom and which EP aide is buying drugs off the guy in Strasbourg.’