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A gold statue depicting Donald Trump fully naked and crushing a smaller man’s shoulders has been unveiled in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France. A new statue has been introduced to the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, and it’s all kinds of satirical and naked. Titled "The Orange Plague," the 2.6-meter statue by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt, is a depiction of a nude Donald Trump holding a comically sized golf club in one hand, a set of scales in the other, all while sitting on the back of a smaller, frailer man.

Pedro Sánchez is the undisputed leader of the European Left. But his time is running out. The Spanish prime minister rolled the dice on a snap election that risks bringing the hard-Right Vox into national government for the first time. The poll-leading centre-Right Partido Popular (PP) will need Vox as coalition partners if it is to take power, which will mean the most Right-wing Spanish government since Franco. It’s a nightmare scenario for Mr Sánchez, who prides himself on his progressive policies. ================== But if Mr Sanchez’s gamble backfires this time, the already small number of centre-Left leaders in Europe...

The non-profit company that publishes The European Conservative, which I founded in 2021, is now in the hands of the Hungarian state. Established in 2008 as an unfunded four-page newsletter, The European Conservative was started by members of the Center for European Renewal (CER), which organizes the annual Vanenburg meeting. Five editions were published over approximately two years and then it ceased for two years. So, in 2012, I volunteered to serve as editor-in-chief. I redesigned the publication, gave it a proper cover, added images, expanded its features and contributors (all of whom wrote for free), and established a social...

Consider a thought experiment. Imagine the US Congress paid a freshman representative his full salary, gave him immunity from criminal prosecution, and then quietly arranged for him to skip 98% of all floor votes so that no voter could ever discover what he actually believed. Now imagine that same representative ran for governor on the promise that he was “just like the incumbent, minus the corruption,” while powerful institutions spent billions creating the conditions for his victory. You would call that election interference. When the European Union did precisely this in Hungary, the Western press called it democracy. On...