The New European

The New European takes great pride in its journalism, and we hope you feel the same way. Our mission is to provide a strong voice for the pro-EU viewpoint, and to counterbalance the often right-leaning narratives found in much of the UK national press. Currently, we enjoy an average weekly circulation of about 23,000 copies, with approximately 8,000 subscribers. It's remarkable to see how far we’ve come since our launch in the summer of 2016 as a temporary four-week project.

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Geert Wilders: the fall of an extremist

2 days ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Ferry Biedermann

The bizarre, 11-month-long sock puppet show that called itself the government of the Netherlands has come to an end, thanks to the puppet master himself. Geert Wilders, the 62-year-old, far-right anti-Islam Dutch leader, has pulled his party out of the ruling coalition, saying he now wants to be prime minister himself. But with elections scheduled for the autumn, he could end up frozen out of power.
Donald Trump’s digital landgrab

1 week ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | James Ball

Here in the maelstrom of Donald Trump’s second term, the state department sets out the US government’s diplomatic position on Substack. That is, at this stage, perhaps the most normal thing that it does. While the delivery mechanism may be unconventional, it is nothing when compared to the content of the message.
When Ireland and Luxembourg saved Britain from Liz Truss

1 week ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Jonty Bloom

Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, was due to give a speech in Dublin last year, but he had to drop out when the General Election was called, and maybe it is just as well he did. Because he has been back to give that speech this week – he used it to attack Trump and Brexit, remorselessly. To be fair he was, as all central bank governors tend to be, very diplomatic.
Tommy Robinson: the empty extremist

1 week ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Andy Owen

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, has been released from prison after serving a sentence for contempt of court. Bearded and with a cross around his neck, he appeared outside HMP Woodhill to deliver a rambling 20-minute monologue for a crowd of supporters, which was streamed on X. His legal troubles are far from over, however: he is due to appear at Westminster Crown Court next week to face separate charges of harassing a journalist.
The eye-watering cost of Trump’s golf habit

1 week ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Nicky Woolf

For years before he won his first presidential election, Donald Trump repeatedly criticised then-president Barack Obama for the amount of time he spent on the course. “Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the US, president Obama spent the day playing golf,” he tweeted in 2014. It was a recurring refrain for him. “I’m going to be working for you. I’m not going to have time to go play golf,” he said during the 2016 campaign. Obama did, in fact, play a lot.
Richard Linklater and the new wave of new wave

1 week ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Jason Solomons

Sometimes, it’s like they make the movies just for you. Who else would possibly enjoy this? I wondered, as I sat there in Cannes’ main temple of cinema, the Grand Theatre Lumiere, dedicated to those founding brothers of the movies, Auguste and Louis Lumiere, watching a film all about the making of another film, the one that practically reinvented cinema: Jean-Luc Godard’s À bout de souffle.
Everyday Philosophy: Where is God when children are starving?

1 week ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Nigel Warburton

No one can justify starving a child. Ever. It’s not a legitimate response to the sadistic brutality of the attacks by Hamas on Israeli citizens on October 7, 2023. Yet images of emaciated Palestinian children and babies, victims of the Israeli blockade on Gaza, are now so common that we risk becoming immune to them, and to what it means morally for someone to have ordered actions with this predictable result. Some humanitarian aid is getting through now, but for thousands it will be too late.
Can Starmer make the case for a new world?

1 week ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Matt Kelly

In a plastic folder in my study, I have three copies of the first-ever edition of the New European. Not quite hermetically sealed, but kept from direct sunlight to avoid what the book trade calls foxing or fading. As historical documents go, they may not be the Gettysburg Address or the handwritten lyrics to Yesterday, but I did once see a copy for sale on eBay for fifteen quid.
Dilettante: When is it the right time to leave home?

1 week ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Marie Le Conte

It was, in retrospect, completely mad. I still can’t believe they let me get away with it. In fairness to them, I didn’t really give them a choice: at the age of 17, I went to my parents and informed them that I had applied to several universities in Britain and none in France. If they wanted me to continue studying, they would have to let me cross the Channel a few months later. If they didn’t: to McDonald’s I’d go. They were about as pleased with the choice as you’d imagine.
Can Europe unplug from Trump’s America?

1 week ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Natasha Lomas

It may not feel this way, but for millions of people, the online world is a purely American experience. Your iPhone, for example, was of course designed in California. When you tap the browser, you probably use Apple’s Safari to get online, and when you type a search term you use the default search engine, which is Google. All of that may be fairly obvious to the casual internet user.