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6 days ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Michael Curzon
Environmentalists hoping to govern Sweden accept that their climate policies will not reduce costs, so instead they want to inflate the prices of fossil fuels to push voters into changing their spending habits.
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6 days ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Michael Curzon
Campaigners who warned before the 2016 referendum vote that Britain was heading towards military engagement alongside European Union forces were accused of pushing false narratives—”dangerous,” even—for their own political gains. Not only was talk about a forthcoming EU army completely legitimate, UK troops might also now end up being deployed on EU missions despite Brexit.
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6 days ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Michael Curzon
The flailing Labour government hopes its new trade deals with India and, most recently, the U.S., are a sign its fortunes are changing. “We promised change,” said Chancellor Rachel Reeves, “and we are delivering.”It is actually Brexit—not Keir Starmer’s team—that has delivered, according to Tory Lord Hannan.
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6 days ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Michael Curzon
People smugglers are laughing at the British Labour government’s pledge to ‘smash the gangs’ and are hoping for a particularly busy summer of Channel crossings thanks to special ‘season’ discounts. Migrants will be able to pay thousands of pounds less to get from France to the UK via a small boat, reports said this week.
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1 week ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Michael Curzon
After spending months denying that a ‘’ was in the works, Keir Starmer’s government has finally admitted that such an agreement is being pursued. Critics warn that this is the start of a slippery slope resulting in free movement with the European Union, Brexit be damned. It's been one hell of a journeyBack August 2024 my colleague @oliver_wright first revealed that ministers were prepared to enter into a youth mobility scheme with the EUNumber 10 denied it on the record.
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1 week ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Michael Curzon
Poland’s Trybunał Konstytucyjny (Constitutional Tribunal, or TK) court has found that parts of the 2025 state budget that cut funding to itself and the National Council of the Judiciary (KRS) are unconstitutional.
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1 week ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Michael Curzon
Britain’s newspapers on Thursday highlight two familiar sides of the migration debate. First, the myth that the establishment is finally getting to grips with the issue, this time by only allowing those fluent in English to remain in the country. Second, the reality that, despite all the tough talk, the situation has in fact got worse.
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1 week ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Michael Curzon
Just two months after demanding that Europe makes its next steps without using America as a crutch, Friedrich Merz has realised the continent cannot do without Donald Trump’s support—especially when it comes to Ukraine. The new German chancellor said at a news conference with Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday that “we cannot end this war in Ukraine without a continued involvement of the United States of America.”This is not something that Europeans can substitute for.
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1 week ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Michael Curzon
Brussels officials are shaking their fists at Donald Trump’s tariffs on cars despite their own significant role in the decline of Europe’s automaker industry. Indeed, fears of forced plant closures have this week united Renault CEO Luca de Meo and Stellantis Chairman John Elkann in their criticism of overregulation by the European Union. The pair told French paper Le Figaro in a joint interview that Brussels should adopt more favourable rules for small cars in particular.
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1 week ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Michael Curzon
Frontex is supposed to protect Europe’s borders, but it has been “captured” by the Left, so does nothing of the sort. That is the verdict of Sweden Democrats MEP Charlie Weimers, who stands at the forefront of efforts to reverse what he describes as the “coup at Frontex”—no small task, by his own admission, given the role of senior European Union officials in this takeover. Weimers stressed that “this is not a procedural matter.
