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opinion
Wall Street Warning: Germany’s Energy Policies Mean Economic Suicide
In the heart of New York’s financial district, Wall Street experts are issuing a stark warning about Germany’s economic trajectory, labeling its energy policies an act of self-sabotage. During a recent visit to the United States, Petr Bystron, a member of the European Parliament from Germany’s Alternative for Germany party, AfD, U.S. economic analysts expressed… -
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Europe’s Violent Immigration Crisis
Western Europe is bent, suffering in quiescence as its Muslim immigrants stab at it from within. Numbed and bloodied, its leadership and people seem to have forgotten that this is neither normal nor inevitable. Yet, at the 10-year mark of the 2015 migrant crisis, and the anniversary of several particularly disturbing Islamic terror attacks, an allied voice has been raised… -
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NATO Can Do More and Better
NATO plays a crucial role in our nation’s defense—and there’s a strong case to be made for increased defense spending by all NATO allies. Those are the points Nile Gardiner, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, made in his recent testimony before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Europe Subcommittee. Gardiner is right:… -
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Trump Issues Travel Restrictions on 12 Nations, Most Predominantly Muslim, Vowing To Prevent ‘What Happened in Europe To Happen To America’
President Donald Trump issued travel restrictions on 12 nations, saying he will not allow “what happened in Europe to happen to America.” The majority of the nations included in the travel ban are countries with a predominant Muslim population. Over the last decade, Europe’s Muslim population has increased drastically as more immigrants from Muslim nations settle… -
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Europe’s Embrace of Lawfare Threatens Its Alliance with the US
President Donald Trump’s election was greeted in Europe with outright fear by parties of the Left and wary apprehension by the center-right but with open elation by a resurgent sovereigntist Right. Now the Left and the center are regrouping and coming up with a strategy to rein in the surging populists. It should surprise no one that this strategy… -
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European Elites Destroy Democracy in Order to Save It
If you are a graduate of Yale University, you can vote every spring for a member of the Yale Corporation, which selects the school’s president. However, you can only participate if you vote for one of the two candidates nominated by the Alumni Fellow Nominating Committee, a group of university officials and graduates. There’s no… -
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Europe, You Can’t Sit on the Sidelines Anymore
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d like to talk today about the role of China, the United States, and the European… -
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What Europe Overlooks About the Trump Administration’s Defense Policy
Since the election of President Donald Trump, Europeans have been vocal in their criticism of nearly every U.S. policy issue, often professing that “transatlantic relations are over” and “this government does not care much about the fate of Europe.” This negative sentiment, echoed by politicians and amplified by a biased media landscape, has led to a… -
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European Leaders Ask for Negotiation on Tariffs
President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on dozens of foreign trading partners have unleashed a rapid response abroad, as Europeans leaders urged negotiations while pondering retaliatory measures Thursday. Trump spoke of such negotiation requests in his Wednesday speech as he previewed the tariffs, saying, “To all of the foreign presidents, prime ministers, kings, queens, ambassadors, and… -
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The European Left Takes Out Conservative Politicians
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There’s two things that ring true about Europeans and their relationship to us Americans. No. 1,… -
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The Death of Europe
America needs more rules to protect workers, say some from both parties. Sen. Josh Hawley wants more rules empowering unions. Barack Obama’s labor secretary says there’s “no fairness, no equity, no concern for safety, no concern for children, even!” European countries, they say, have more laws protecting workers, and so “Europe is better.” That’s nonsense,… -
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Europe’s Decline Was a Choice
Donald Tusk, the prime minister of Poland, might not shock Europe’s leaders the way President Donald Trump does, but he too has a tough message for them. “Hear for yourself how it sounds,” he said last month: Five hundred million Europeans begging 300 million Americans to defend them from 140 million Russians. If you can… -
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The Policies of European Elites End in Tears
If you follow these things closely, you may have seen a clip of the chairman of the Munich Security Conference breaking down in tears, unable to speak any further while reflecting on Vice President JD Vance’s speech there. This breakdown is remarkable because the chairman, Christoph Heusgen, is not a minor apparatchik but a sophisticated… -
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In London, House Republicans Get Firsthand Look at How Trump Is Shaking Up Europe
Though it’s been just a month since his return to the White House, President Donald Trump is making his presence felt at home and abroad, from the Department of Government Efficiency to tariffs to setting the stage to negotiate the end of the Russia-Ukraine war. Republican Reps. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Eric Burlison of… -
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Legacy Media Goes All in on Europe’s Censorship Regimes
It says a lot about America’s fast fading legacy media establishment leaders that they’ve decided to use up the last shreds of their credibility to glorify censorship. This dynamic is exactly what’s been playing out following Vice President JD Vance’s speech in Munich, Germany, on Friday. In that speech, he excoriated European governments for, among other things, retreating… -
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JD Vance’s Message to European Leaders: Listen to Your People, Don’t Go Hard Left
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. There has been a maelstrom of controversy about Vice President JD Vance. Last week he spoke… -
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright Implores Europeans to ‘Return to Sobriety’ on Climate, Energy
On the heels of Vice President JD Vance challenging Europe’s regulatory, energy, and security environments in Paris and Munich, President Donald Trump’s newly minted energy secretary, Chris Wright, piled on in a virtual address at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London. Wright particularly called out Net Zero 2050 in his conversation with… -
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In Munich Speech, Vance Excoriates European Leaders on Censorship, Mass Migration Policies
Vice President JD Vance called out European leaders in a speech Friday at the Munich Security Conference, arguing that Europeans must commit to free speech and fair elections if they are to have societies worth fighting for. “The crisis this Continent is facing, the one I believe we all face together, is one of our… -
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America and Europe Can Hang Together—or Hang Separately
Consider these European and American binaries. On Dec. 20, a terrorist, Taleb Al-Abdul Mohsen, rammed his SUV into a Christmas crowd in Magdeburg, Germany. He killed six pedestrians and injured 299 others. Eleven days later, on New Year’s Eve in New Orleans, Louisiana, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar smashed his pickup into a festive crowd. He killed… -
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How Musk’s X Is Turning Europe’s Censorship Regimes ‘Upside Down’
Have censorship regimes met their match in Elon Musk? As I and many others have written recently, discussion of mass Pakistani rape gangs operating with impunity in the United Kingdom has exploded in the past week, even though the story is now more than a decade old. The details are horrifying and profound. It’s hard…