Poland – Meeting on 16 December to discuss, among other things, soaring energy prices, the EU-27 were unable to agree on two issues that are crucial to Europe’s future: the CO2 emissions trading system (ETS) and the energy “taxonomy”, that is, the…
Slovenia/European Union– As we recently reported, Slovenia’s presidency of the European Union, which we predicted would be stormy and marred by conflict, is indeed off to a flying start, and the EU’s leaders in Brussels have not been mistaken in seeing in Slovenian Prime Minister…
Slovenia is the target this time, as the EU Commission condemns Slovenian Premier's criticism of a left-wing reporter.
Why? A free media requires dissenting opinions, open debate and hard-hitting from both sides...or it’s not really free.
PM Janša must have struck a…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - Together with its fellow Visegrád Group countries, Poland has managed to veto the bid of Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans to become the next President of the European Commission. Although Timmermans is expected to retain a vice-presidency of…
By Olivier Bault.
This article was originally published on Kurier.plus.
European Union - Meeting in Sibiu, Romania, for a European Council on May 9, European heads of state and government discussed whether the Spitzenkandidaten system – first used to choose the head…
By Olivier Bault.
This article was originally published on Kurier.plus.
European Union - “The more I listen to Timmermans talk on rule of law and respond to questions, the more obvious it seems that spitzenkandidaten should temporarily leave their EU paid roles during…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Romania - On Saturday, October 6, and Sunday, October 7, just under 4 million Romanian citizens went to the polls to vote in the so-called “referendum on the family”, a little over 20% of the official electoral body (why…
By Modeste Schwartz.
Romania - Since the 1990s, the increasing hegemony of the Soros galaxy on Romanian civil society has resulted in a continuous intensification of LGBT propaganda. After obtaining some rather uncontroversial reforms (such as the decriminalization of homosexuality), the LGBT…
By Sébastien Meuwissen.
Pologne - Forty years ago, Poland lit the spark that would put an end to Communist totalitarianism in Central and Eastern Europe. Today, the European Commission has launched the first phase of Article 7 of the Lisbon Treaty against…
European Union - On Wednesday 15 morning, there will be a debate about Poland at the European Parliament. Marek Jurek, a Polish MEP and former speaker of the Sejm, has sent the letter below, before the debate, to Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President…
By Olivier Bault.
Poland - While in Poland the conflict surrounding the Constitutional Court (CC) has somewhat subsided as a result of the departure of its President Andrzej Rzepliński, who had the unfortunate habit of commenting on the laws adopted by the…