Ellen Kryger Fantini

Managing Editor at European Conservative

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Don’t Compromise with the Mushy Middle

Jun 10, 2024 | europeanconservative.com | Ellen Kryger Fantini

During the frenzy of activity last night at our Brussels news bureau, as we reported on the European Elections, it felt very much like we were watching the stock market: numbers seemingly detached from people. We reviewed exit poll data, researched leads, and did the math to see where the results put various parties and parliamentary groups. And we found that the nationalist, populist “shift to the Right” that we were all warned about by legacy media more or less happened.
To the European Right: Don’t Snatch Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

May 22, 2024 | europeanconservative.com | Ellen Kryger Fantini

While newsrooms across Europe, including ours, scramble to report on the fallout between right-wing parties and analyze what the shake-ups in political groupings might mean for the next European Parliament, we should not forget that the Right has an historic opportunity to make an impact in the larger battle for Europe. It should not be wasted on internal power-struggles and infighting. Ordinary Europeans do not care about comings and goings in Brussels-based political groupings.
Leak: EU Plans to Dump 'Rule-of-Law' Case Against Poland

Apr 29, 2024 | europeanconservative.com | Ellen Kryger Fantini

A Monday, April 29th meeting of European Union commissioners approved plans to move ahead to terminate the seven-year-long ‘rule-of-law’ vendetta against Poland, The European Conservative has learned. The matter will be referred to member states at the European Council for final approval in the days ahead.
NatCon Brussels: Conference Goes Forward Despite Mayor’s Attempt to Cancel

Apr 13, 2024 | europeanconservative.com | Ellen Kryger Fantini

The venue for next week’s National Conservatism (NatCon) conference in Brussels announced on Friday afternoon that it had pulled the plug on the event after political pressure from the left-wing mayor of Brussels. Some 500 attendees are due to hear speeches by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour, Germany’s Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former MEP and Brexit Party founder Nigel Farage, and the previous UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman, among others.
Identity & Democracy Invites Orbán’s Party to Join Group; Floats Merger with ECR

Feb 1, 2024 | europeanconservative.com | Ellen Kryger Fantini

With only five months remaining until the European elections, Brussels is already bracing for a major right-wing shift in EU politics. While both of the anti-establishment right-wing blocs—the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and Identity and Democracy (ID)—are expected to grow significantly, there’s one currently non-attached major party whose fate remains undecided and could make quite a welcome addition to both: the Hungarian ruling party, Fidesz.
Illegal Migration Forcing U.S. Constitutional Crisis

Jan 26, 2024 | europeanconservative.com | Ellen Kryger Fantini

You wouldn’t know it from the lack of attention in the European and American media, but the United States is moving quickly toward a major constitutional crisis. The cause? The massive number of illegal migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, which Washington is doing virtually nothing to stop. Since 2021, the U.S. Government has caught 6 million illegal migrants have crossing illegally into America from Mexico, which shares a border with Texas.
Searching for an Enemy: From ‘Far Right’ to ‘Ultra Right’

Dec 13, 2023 | europeanconservative.com | Ellen Kryger Fantini

For some months now, the concept of the ‘ultra Right’ has been all the rage among French journalists, who seem to have found a new enemy to slay. A bogeyman designed to remobilise a public that has become too accustomed to the term ‘far Right,’ the ‘ultra Right’ could have the opposite effect to that intended: it could further normalise the discourse of the national Right.
King’s Speech Confirms the Tories Are Still Greens

Nov 7, 2023 | europeanconservative.com | Ellen Kryger Fantini

The King’s Speech was not nearly as groundbreaking as many are suggesting—especially with regards to ‘net zero.’This ceremonial address saw the monarch, dressed in full regalia, read a speech written by the government, setting out its main objectives over the next parliamentary term. Much like his Tory conference speech, Rishi Sunak used the speech to characterise his as the administration of change.
After October 7th

Nov 7, 2023 | europeanconservative.com | Ellen Kryger Fantini

It is one month since Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on October 7th, massacring more than 1,400 civilians and kidnapping almost 250 on the bloodiest day for the Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust. In the past few weeks, the impact of the Hamas pogrom against Israeli Jews—and Israel’s attack on Hamas-controlled Gaza—has changed almost everything: in the Middle East, here in Europe, and across the West.
Uncertainty: To Hope’s End and Heart’s Breaking

Aug 25, 2023 | europeanconservative.com | Ellen Kryger Fantini

Uncertainty: eleven letters on a page; four syllables on the mouth; untold hours of darkness in the mind; perhaps days, months, or years of anguish in the heart. The word comes from the Latin incerta—those things that are not clear, reliable, or fixed. The psalmist speaks of how the Lord revealed to him hidden and secret wisdom: incerta et occulta sapientiæ tuæ manifestasti mihi (Ps. 50:8).