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4 days ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Artur Ciechanowicz
Karol Nawrocki’s election as president of Poland marks more than a political shift—it is a cultural revolt. It reflects the rising frustration of ordinary Poles with a liberal establishment increasingly perceived as aloof, elitist, and contemptuous of its own people. What unfolded at the ballot box was not just a clash of candidates, but a broader rebellion against the status quo.
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1 week ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Pieter Cleppe
On May 20th, the European Commission announced plans to impose a flat €2 fee on the billions of low-value packages that enter the EU each year, by scrapping the current exemption for imports valued under €150 that are shipped directly to consumers. Often, European consumers buy these via platforms like Chinese-founded Temu and Shein.
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1 week ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Michael Curzon
Poles vote this Sunday, June 1st, for their next president in what is widely seen as a watershed election. The two options they are being presented with could hardly contrast more starkly.
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1 week ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Artur Ciechanowicz
Hans-Georg Maaßen is a German lawyer and former senior civil servant who served as President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, from 2012 to 2018. He is known for his critical stance on government immigration policy and for publicly opposing the political instrumentalisation of intelligence services.
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1 week ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Michael Curzon
Another day, another establishment European politician working to restrict freedoms in order to protect … democracy!German Education Minister Karin Prien (CDU) this week told a young audience at Berlin’s re:publica digital trade fair that we mustn’t “kid ourselves,”We can’t avoid regulation if we want to save our liberal, democratic system.
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1 week ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Michael Curzon
The Brussels elite is forcing the people of Europe to live through a nightmare in which they feel like strangers in their own countries and do not feel safe on their own streets. But if sovereigntists come together and work towards a united goal, the ‘European dream’ can be realised. This was the opening message of Viktor Orbán at this week’s CPAC Hungary conference, where ideals have been laid out and new allegiances—including with the Alternative für Deutschland’s Alice Weidel—have been formed.
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1 week ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Michael Curzon
Labour’s Keir Starmer did a press conference at a factory on Thursday, with his top button undone and his sleeves rolled up, in a blatant attempt to portray himself as the representative of Britain’s working class.
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1 week ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Michael Curzon
There appeared for a moment to be some kind of sea change in the approach to trans issues after the UK Supreme Court ruled in April that a woman is a woman. But this could be at risk now that officials are working to delay new legal guidance, apparently in the hope that more liberal figures can alter it in their favour first.
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1 week ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Michael Curzon
Recent attempts to clamp down on violence against women have been criticised for curving around the significant impact of uncontrolled borders. A banner held by two leftist activists at a vigil for a woman stabbed to death in Fulda, central Germany, last Monday read:Dead men don’t kill. It added that “our grief turns to anger”—apparently directed at all men.
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1 week ago | 
europeanconservative.com | Artur Ciechanowicz
As Poland heads into a critical presidential election, the stakes go far beyond party labels or personalities. According to Jacek Saryusz-Wolski—a veteran EU negotiator and former vice-president of the European Parliament—the vote could determine whether Poland remains a sovereign nation or becomes a compliant province of a Brussels-led superstate. As Le Monde recently reported, the European Commission is deliberately stalling announcements on two core policy areas—the Green Deal and migration.