Country Report: Spain & Portugal, April 2023
With one month to go before the next regional and local elections in Spain, the political parties have begun the electoral pre-campaign, with events and rallies becoming more and more frequent.
Álvaro Peñas
Country Report: France, April 2023 - Is France in a political or institutional crisis?
The month of April has been marked by two major events in France. First, the continuing protest against the pension reform, which, for many experts, constitutes a regime crisis that could lead to a Sixth Republic.
Patrick Edery
Interview with Ludwig Brühl - ADF (Alliance Defending Freedom) International
“There is no place in a free society for the punishing of individuals who share their peaceful and honest views on the important issues of our time”
Álvaro Peñas
Seen from Warsaw, Seen from Brussels: The Echo of the Heidelberg Speech
On 20 March, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki gave a very important speech at the University of Heidelberg.[1] It is worth comparing it with President Emmanuel Macron’s speech at the Sorbonne in 2017 and with the address of Chancellor Olaf Scholz at Charles University in Prague at the end of August 2022.
Zdzisław Krasnodębski
What dangers hide behind AI and ChatGPT?
A decade ago we were told that manual jobs would disappear and that only professions with a strong creative or intellectual character would remain. But with the revolution in Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT or Mid-journey, it seems that journalists, lawyers, computer scientists, analysts, doctors, cartoonists, webmasters, actors, authors, scriptwriters and artists are also likely to disappear en masse.
Patrick Edery
Francisco Floro: 'Basically, this invasion is about the reconstruction of the former Soviet space'.
Interview with Francisco Floro, Spanish volunteer in Ukraine.
Álvaro Peñas
The Question of Oriental Christians is a European Question
Europe will be Christian again, or it will no longer be at all. How Christian it truly is, is also shown by how much it stands by its fellow Christians. In the case of Christianity in the Orient, the very region of origin of the religion that had made Europe what it was and what it is now - things look bleak.
Marco Gallina
Interview with José de Carvalho: 'Portuguese history is not a crime'
José António Ribeiro de Carvalho is a history professor and researcher. A regular contributor to national and regional newspapers on politics, ideology and education, he is the author of several books.
Álvaro Peñas
The Finnish election is a signal for European conservatives
Sanna Marin is history. This is not without irony: usually, it is the "woke" young generation that overturns monuments to great historical figures. Yet this time, with Marin, a left-wing icon only 37 years old is toppling. She was a figurehead even in the liberal camp.
Marco Gallina
Interview with Anna Tompson, member of the “European Fraternity”
This is the eighth instalment of our new interview series, called “Don’t just criticise, create!” David Engels speaks with European artists, philosophers, priests, intellectuals, activists, and artisans who have each decided not only to lament 'the decline of the West' but also to endeavour to help reverse it. They have done this by making something new, and also perhaps something beautiful, true, and good.
David Engels
Country Report: Spain & Portugal, March 2023
The political news in Spain in March was marked, much to the chagrin of the mainstream media, by the motion of censure presented by VOX against Pedro Sánchez’s government.
Álvaro Peñas
Ban Billionaires! – Don't tax them, exile them to their yachts
Earlier this month the American president, Mr Joe Biden, proposed a minimum tax of 25% on billionaires. It is unclear whether such a proposal could ever gain traction in the land that invented the billionaire as a special class of modern man.