Bruno Waterfield

Nov 20, 2024 | spiked-online.com | Bruno Waterfield

European voters are demanding a shared, civic future. Share Topics Politics World Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. The rise of Eurosceptic, nationalist, populist parties, which are now making the running in France, Italy, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands and Germany, has horrified Europe’s political elites.

Feb 16, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Bruno Waterfield |Adam Creighton |Gerard Baker |Oliver Wright

NATO has dropped plans to have a woman at the helm of the military alliance because of fears Donald Trump’s “misogyny” will cause more damage to transatlantic relations if he returns to the White House. Caretaker Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is the frontrunner to take the post of NATO secretary-general when Jens Stoltenberg steps down after 10 years.

Jan 18, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Bruno Waterfield

Two paintings by Picasso and Chagall worth more than £700,000 ($1.3m) have been recovered from a cellar in Antwerp after being stolen 14 years ago. Investigators from Belgium’s federal police have established that the artworks are Marc Chagall’s The Man in Prayer, signed in 1970, and Pablo Picasso’s Head, dated 1971. They were stolen in a sophisticated heist from the home of the Herzikovichs, a family of Israeli art collectors, in Tel Aviv in February 2010.

Dec 18, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | Jenna Clarke |Bruno Waterfield |Matthew Parris

From The Times In 1793, Britain, along with much of the rest of Europe, embarked on war against revolutionary France. On all sides, it was thought that the war would be over in months. No one would have believed that it would only be settled 22 years later at the Battle of Waterloo with the final defeat of Napoleon.

Dec 16, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | Bruno Waterfield |Matthew Parris |Eli Greenblat

The EU has begun work on a “plan B” to bypass Hungary’s veto after the country’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, blocked a €50bn aid program for Ukraine. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen hailed an earlier decision to open talks with Ukraine as a historic step and pledged to come up with a new funding plan that Mr Orban would not be able to block.