Thomas Fazi

Belgium’s prime minister learned the hard way that one does not need to be a rabble-rousing populist to incur the EU’s wrath. Until recently, the moderate conservative Bart De Wever had largely stayed out of the European spotlight. This was relatively easy, given that his party belongs to the centre-right European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament, which has strongly aligned with Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission on Ukraine. Yet in a matter of months he became the Brussels establishment’s public enemy number one.

It has finally happened. After months of military build-up in the Caribbean, the illegal killing of more than a hundred people on Venezuelan fishing boats – many of them civilians – and the equally illegal seizure of Venezuelan oil tankers, the Trump administration has

Stephen Miller is not one for gentility. “Nobody is going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,” Trump's aide asserted

On Sunday, Bulgarians headed to the polls in unusually high numbers to deliver a resounding victory to the party of former president Rumen Radev, who held that office until January of this year.

Remember the Paris Agreement? Signed a decade ago today, it was hailed as a historic milestone in the fight against climate change, with practically

The Paris Agreement was a fantasy

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

Nato is a dangerous grift

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.