Interview with Yobana Carril
“I never thought that in Spain I would see that the same crime committed by two individuals would be punished differently depending on their sex”
Álvaro Peñas
Country Report: A Surreal France, March 2023
The main news in France during the month of March was of course the demonstrations against the pension reform. These overshadowed a fairly large number of surreal news items, each of which would deserve a thorough analysis, as they are so symptomatic of the flaws in the French society.
Patrick Edery
What happened to the Hungarian cockade?
Pest, 15 March 1848, 8 a.m. Spring is approaching fast, the weather is finally mild after a long winter. In Pilvax, a café in the city centre close to Franciscan Square, six men are meeting. The discussions are heated, revolutionary fever has been brewing for several days.
Ferenc Almássy
The German government wants to throw two opposition parties out of parliament
On 17 March, Germany carried out what was possibly the most significant change in electoral law in the post-war period. It was also especially remarkable because a government with an absolute majority could thus eliminate two opposition parties, at least in the medium term.
Marco Gallina
Seen from Warsaw, seen from Brussels: A 'Europe' state under construction?
We may soon be confronted with a choice by our European partners: if Poland wants to admit Ukraine (and other candidate countries which fulfil the basic conditions) to the EU, it must agree to a reform of the Union which will further centralise it and remove the principle of unanimity in the Union's foreign policy - and probably also in the few remaining areas where it is still applicable.
Zdzisław Krasnodębski
The strange case of Yvan Colonna – the rule of law which excludes Corsica
Apart from the fact that Colonna’s arrest and death helped Presidents Sarkozy and Macron at key moments, the rule of law was absent throughout the investigation leading to Yvan Colonna's arrest and death.
Patrick Edery
Interview with Miguel Ángel Quintana Paz: "More and more people who are dissatisfied with the world realise that Catholicism has the tools to face today’s challenges".
Miguel Ángel Quintana Paz. Academic Director of the Higher Institute of Sociology, Economy and Politics (ISSEP) in Madrid. Professor at the postgraduate program “Expertise in Social Communications” at the Pontifical University of Salamanca.
Álvaro Peñas
The problem of mass immigration to Europe - a critical analysis
The growing migratory pressure at Europe's borders has shown clearly that, despite the already obvious problems involved, the migratory inflow is not being tackled with the necessary determination by the EU institutions. Yet irregular immigration is a problem that does not concern a single country but the whole of Europe.
Francesco Giubilei
France can thank the heroes who destroyed the Nord Stream I & II pipelines
For several months now, everyone has been wondering about the nationality of those who destroyed the two gas pipelines linking Russia to Germany. Were they American? British? Danish? Finnish? Norwegian? Polish? Swedish? Russian? Ukrainian? And why not French?
Patrick Edery
Anglospherical: The Region Report on the Anglosphere - February 2023
On the 15th of February, the First Minister of Scotland, Mrs Nicola Sturgeon, announced her resignation. The First Minister would be the equivalent of a prime minister if Scotland were independent.
Vernon Rogers
Germany on the Wrong Track: The “Synodal Way” – a Second Reformation?
If something has become clear in recent years or decades, it is the impression that Germany is increasingly moving away from all that is considered common practice by its neighbours.
David Engels
The US: The Next Political Third World?
There is a popular historical debate about when Rome’s decadence took it so low that it was thereafter unable to recover its former secular glory. Was it when birth rates of the Senatorial class fell to the point that they could not reproduce themselves (that is, without the mass adult adoption which they practiced)? Was it the advent of the new religion, based not on the will of the powerful or the powerful’s gods, but on the ‘poor in spirit’, meek, and persecuted, who were then inheriting the Roman earth? Was it earlier, when the Republic evolved into the Empire, and gradually lost its ability to hold the provinces to a Roman pattern?