Tag: EU

Yes to Europe? The EU’s War on the Irish Family

The following first appeared on the Substack ‘Creeve Rua’ and is syndicated with the permission of the author. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ireland’s entry into the European Union, or as it was called then, the European Economic...

/ 14/04/2023

“Sous les pavés, chomâge.” What I saw at a French riot.

https://twitter.com/TheBurkeanIE/status/1646524050989260800 Bottles and bricks fly through the air from one side of the boulevard and smash into a policeman’s riot shield. Here and there the crowd keeps its distance from the heat of small bonfires that have been made out...

/ 13/04/2023

From Tanks to Think Tanks

When Churchill made his famous 'Iron Curtain' address, it seemed apposite to the zeitgeist of the time. Alas, now,  the curtain swaying across Central Europe, from the Baltic to the Bosphorus Straits, and from Bialystok to the Black Sea, is...

/ 28/02/2023

The Brahmins and the Border: Northern Protocol Debate Nears Potential End

Anglo-Irish relations, since a fallout over Brexit, are now orienting towards a short-term solution under the governments of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. Both men, of Indian ethnic stock, by engaging in discussions over a...

/ 22/02/2023

Our Gallant Allies: How Will Irish Progressives Deal with Europe’s Turn Right?

With Ireland’s NGOcracy scrambling to put out fires at home, liberals took a minor spit take at the presence of An Taoiseach in Brussels hobnobbing with Órban and Meloni at this month's EU migration summit.  A standard tête-à-tête, it constituted...

/ 20/02/2023

Swedish MEP Reprimands Irish Government’s Mishandling of Asylum Policies

Speaking in the European Parliament, Sweden Democrats MEP Charlie Wiemers has chastised the Irish government’s response to Ireland’s asylum crisis.  Vice-Chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, Weimers has previously criticised the government’s decision to grant general amnesty to...

/ 14/02/2023

Germany: The Coup that Wasn’t?

Clocks were set back to 1919 this week with the German Bundesrepublik acting robustly to suppress plans to overthrow the state by Russian-backed nationalists, at least if authorities can be believed. Leading to the arrest of 27 Wednesday morning in...

/ 11/12/2022

Meloni Warts And All: Fratelli Win Should Be the Beginning Not the End for Italian Nationalists

With a commitment to move the Italian embassy to Jerusalem, abet the war effort in Ukraine and clamp down on illegal migration, Fratelli d'Italia romped home comfortably in this month’s Italian general election. Displacing Brussels favourite and arch-technocrat Mario Draghi,...

/ 11/10/2022

Ireland’s Foreign Policy Stagnation on Display at UCD Event

As a consequence of an increasingly unstable international situation throughout the past decade, contemporary European foreign policy has begun to change. Since the end of the Second World War, and exacerbated by the collapse of the Soviet Union, European interests...

/ 30/09/2022

Hungary Rejects the Post-Western Future-Viktor Orbán

Generating much controversy in the western press gallery the following is a partial transcript from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's recent campus speech on the topic of demography, war with Russia and his nation's schism with Western Liberalism. A full...

/ 31/07/2022