Jacob Reynolds

Europe doesn’t have the military or manufacturing capabilities to match its tough talk against Russia.

Europe’s impotence has left Ukraine in an invidious position.

At 9.29 pm on Sunday, just moments after Viktor Orbán took to the stage to concede the Hungarian election, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on X that “Europe's heart is beating stronger in Hungary tonight.” Before 10 pm, Emmanuel Macron announced he had already spoken with the winner, Péter Magyar.

For the past week, much of Europe sweltered in an usual May heatwave. Of course, for the European elite, the cause was obvious – climate change – and the solution just as obvious – double down on virtue-signalling environmentalist policies such as ensuring that plastic bottle caps cannot be removed.

The French state will deploy every weapon in its arsenal to hobble the populist right.