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Fight Over Soros-Founded Hungarian University Shows US’ Power Vacuum in Europe
That nature abhors a vacuum is a cliché but also a postulate about the immutable laws of nature. And once again, we’re seeing the unchangeable rules of the physical world being replicated in human action—especially in foreign policy. Exhibit A is Europe east of the Fulda Gap, where Obama appointees are still dictating American policy… -
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France’s Election Is Also a Crossroads for Europe
NICE, France—On the battlefields of eastern Ukraine, former French special operations troops and French foreign legionnaires have fought on opposite sides of the war, joining the ranks of both pro-Ukrainian volunteer battalions as well as Russia’s proxy separatist army. Meanwhile, on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq, about 700 French citizens remain among the Islamic… -
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European Populism Not ‘Going Away’ Despite Dutch Election Result
A far-right nationalist party in the Netherlands led by charismatic and controversial leader Geert Wilders failed to score a decisive victory in what was billed as the first electoral test for European populism since last year’s “Brexit” referendum and Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States. Indeed, Wilders did not meet expectations in… -
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How Soros Money Is Corrupting Politics in This Small European Nation
In the economy of world politics, George Soros has billions at stake, and they extend even to remote places like the Republic of Macedonia. In fact, the tiny Balkan state is becoming emblematic of a battle royale taking place in Europe between conservative parties that support traditional values and national sovereignty, and those—often funded by… -
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The 2 Largest Land Armies in Europe Tiptoe to the Edge of War and Back
KYIV, Ukraine—A planned missile test over the Black Sea spurs a Kremlin threat to shoot down the missiles and possibly target the launch sites. An eleventh-hour compromise is reached, defusing an act of brinkmanship, which could have sparked an all-out war. An episode between NATO and Moscow during the Cold War? Or, perhaps, the latest… -
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What Brexit Means for the European Union’s Future
Britain’s decision to leave the European Union could inspire other disaffected nations to consider a way out unless the bloc responds to anxiety across the continent over jobs, immigration, and globalization. While experts say an all-out breakup of the European Union is far-fetched, countries both successful (like Sweden) and struggling (such as Greece) may view… -
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ISIS Strikes Again in Europe
The Islamic State has struck in Europe again. Yet, with media attention focused on the terrorist attack in Orlando, it has gone somewhat under the radar. Larossi Abballa stabbed to death a French policeman, Jean-Baptiste Salvaing, outside his own home in Magnanville, France. He then went inside and stabbed his (as yet unnamed) partner to death…. -
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Europe Rolls Over on Greek Debt (Again), With No Reforms
European Union checklist for May 2016: 1) Greek Loans Rolled Over (again!)—Check! 2) Crisis Averted (again!)—Check! 3) Structural Problems in Greece Left Unsolved (again!)—Check! To an outsider, at least, that seems to be a good summary of how the European Union handled the most recent chapter in the Greek debt crisis. After the latest round… -
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Has Europe Blinked on Defeating ISIS in the Middle East?
KYIV, Ukraine—The terrorist attacks in Brussels so far have produced an internal evaluation of Belgium’s intelligence and law enforcement missteps, rather than the escalated airstrikes on Islamist targets in Syria that quickly followed the deadly attacks in Paris. Two days after the Nov. 13, 2015, terrorist attacks in Paris, French warplanes hammered the Islamic State,… -
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Europe’s Breeding Ground for Terror
Belgians and all Europeans are looking around themselves today with renewed apprehension, having been reminded once more by the attacks in Brussels about their vulnerability to terrorism that arises from within their midst. They’ve allowed parallel societies to emerge, and now they fear that the problem can only grow. It was only fitting, for example,… -
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After Brussels Attacks, US Must Not Repeat Europe’s Mistakes
The first question security professionals around the world ask after a horrific terrorist attack is: What’s next? The second question is: How to stop it? Today, Americans woke up to news that Europe had been hit again, with reports of two bombs in Brussels that killed and injured scores. The attacks come only days after… -
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KT McFarland on the ‘Powder Keg’ That’s About to Explode in Europe
KT McFarland decided to re-enter the national security arena after 9/11. She had stepped down as the highest-ranking woman at the Pentagon in the Reagan administration to raise a family. So why did McFarland, national security contributor for Fox News Channel, come back? In an on-camera interview with The Daily Signal, she tells me America’s… -
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Finally, Europe Is Waking Up to Dangers of Multiculturalism
It may be late in the game, but Europeans are finally waking up to how decades of indoctrination into multiculturalism is now imperiling their safety. British Prime Minister David Cameron has led this campaign, but even the leaders of France and Germany are now following. The fear that national identity is being eroded stands behind much… -
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Yes, the European Union Wants a Court for That, Too…
When it comes to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a proposed trade agreement between the United States and the European Union, there are many opinions on how to structure the arrangement. One disagreement concerns how to protect investors. With any large trade agreement, disputes between investors and governments are bound to arise. To… -
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West Germany’s Former Chancellor Predicted Europe Would Have an Assimilation Problem
In 1990, former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told me in an interview that massive Islamic immigration into Europe kept him awake at night. Between pinches of snuff, Schmidt said he worried Muslims wouldn’t assimilate, and that this would become a big problem for the continent. Schmidt’s ruminations are worth remembering following French President François… -
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How One Religious Organization Is Helping Syrian Refugees as They Arrive in Europe
As the United States debates how to properly vet 10,000 Syrian refugees expected to resettle here, employees with Samaritan’s Purse are stationed on the frontlines in Greece, working to be a “face of compassion” for refugees fleeing war and terror. Ken Isaacs, vice president of programs and government relations for Samaritan’s Purse, spent a week… -
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Time for the US to Rethink Its Support for the European Union
Since the end of the Second World War, the U.S. has encouraged the free nations of Europe to abandon their independence in the name of closer economic and political union. That process created today’s European Union, the EU. We encouraged this partly because we believed that Europe was like the American states, and that they… -
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Refugee Crisis Has European Union Grappling With Its Destiny
As Europe has struggled to articulate a collective response to a flood of refugees from the Middle East and Africa, Germany has positioned itself as the continent’s good cop, coming to the rescue with a vow to take in 800,000 migrants. With that pledge, German Chancellor Angela Merkel hoped to inspire the European Union’s 27… -
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Five Key Points on Europe’s Refugee Crisis
In the wake of civil war in Syria, the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS), an Islamist ascendancy in Libya, and a series of conflicts in the Middle East and North and East Africa, hundreds of thousands of people have made their way to Europe, seeking asylum as refugees. Some of those fleeing war zones… -
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Europe Gives Trinidad the Charlie Brown Treatment
The nations that have ratified the controversial Arms Trade Treaty, which seeks to regulate the international sale of conventional arms, concluded their first meeting last week in Cancun. One order of business at the four-day meeting was to pick the location for the Arms Trade Treaty’s headquarters – its secretariat. And when the time to…