Thomas Fazi

Trump has once again sent Europeans scrambling. This time, he has announced the withdrawal of around 5,000 soldiers from Germany as part of a Pentagon

One step away from the brink: NATO’s march towards all-out war with Russia

A few weeks after Peter Magyar’s victory in Hungary’s elections, two competing narratives are already hardening around his new government.

Von der Leyen is coming for Europe’s wallet

The European Central Bank (ECB) scored a parliamentary breakthrough on Tuesday. The European Parliament’s economic affairs (ECON) committee endorsed its long-gestating plan for a digital euro, and in doing so paved the way for a central-bank-backed electronic payment instrument meant to loosen the eurozone’s grip on US credit card networks. The vote doesn’t amount to [...]Read More...

The European Central Bank (ECB) scored a parliamentary breakthrough on Tuesday. The European Parliament’s economic affairs (ECON) committee endorsed its long-gestating plan for a digital euro, and in doing so paved the way for a central-bank-backed electronic payment instrument meant to loosen the eurozone’s grip on US credit card networks. The vote doesn’t amount to [...]Read More...

It has become something of a seasonal ritual. Every summer, Brussels launches a fresh propaganda offensive on Ukraine — and this year is no

The Ukraine War's big lie

It has become something of a seasonal ritual. Every summer, Brussels launches a fresh propaganda offensive on Ukraine — and this year is no different. “The tide is turning”, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen declared on social media a few weeks ago, claiming that Ukraine

On Thursday, the European Parliament “adopted” the extension of Chat Control 1.0. This is the temporary suspension of the EU’s ePrivacy rules that allows tech platforms to mass-scan citizens’ private communications, ostensibly to detect child sexual abuse material. “Adopted” is placed in quotation marks here because the word implies something that conspicuously failed to happen: [...]Read More...