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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… -
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This Could Be the Beginning of the End for the European Union
Its failure to make a €1.73 billion euro payment to the International Monetary Fund by June 30 makes Greece the first developed country in history to default to the IMF. It could also mark the beginning of the end for the European Union as the world has known it. Brinkmanship by Greece’s hard-left Syriza government—rejecting… -
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What America Can Learn From Europe’s Attempts to Stem Growth of Islamist Ideology
Watching Europeans grapple with multiculturalism as they attempt to stem the growth of Islamist ideology at home can be instructive. It may even convince U.S. leaders of the wisdom of once again assimilating immigrants to a unique American culture and set of national principles. In Germany, one of the most controversial aspects of multiculturalism, granting… -
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An Alliance Carrying the Torch of Freedom in Europe
Last weekend, I had the honor of attending a meeting of the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists in Winchester, England. The organization consists of members of the European Parliament from 15 European Union nations and Turkey and works with several “regional partners” including Canada, Australia and the United States. The Alliance opposes the centralized… -
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Victory in Europe Day, 70 Years Later
Rewind 70 years ago. It is May 8, 1945, and Germany has just surrendered. World War II is over in Europe. The day, formally now referred to as “Victory in Europe Day” or "V-E Day," marks the acceptance of Nazi Germany’s surrender to the Allies of World War II. Today, we join with countries across the… -
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The Middle East Today Looks Like Europe Right Before World War I
For years, the great nations of Europe spent huge sums of money to build their military might. They assembled themselves into blocs, all the better to play a dangerous game of power politics. Slowly, surely, they were stumbling toward war. In June 1914, an assassin shot the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire,… -
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U.S. Army Launches Show-of-Force Operation in Eastern Europe
PARNU, Estonia—The U.S. Army today launched Operation Dragoon Ride, a 1,100-mile convoy of Stryker armored fighting vehicles. It will cross six countries, beginning Estonia and ending in Germany on April 1. Operation Dragoon Ride will be an effort to counter increased Russian aggression, particularly in Ukraine. Photos: Nolan Peterson/The Daily Signal -
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Germany, Rest of Europe Proves Lack of Backbone
German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently negotiated a cease-fire in Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Within days, Ukrainian troops lost the city of Debaltseve to a new Russian-backed rebel offensive. At the same time, European negotiations on the Greek financial crisis broke down in acrimony. This is the hour of Europe, and it’s a disaster…. -
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Fetal Surgery Still Considered ‘Radical’ in Europe and Other Countries
Fetal surgery has existed for more than three decades in the United States, but in many countries the life-saving procedure is just being introduced. In October, doctors in Hyderabad, India, conducted their first successful fetal surgery. After noticing 90 percent blockage in the aortic valve and shrinkage of the left heart ventricle in a patient’s… -
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Why Anti-Semitism Is Increasing in Europe
“They’ve had major riots, that have not just been anti-Israeli policy, but are blatantly anti-Jewish. … They’re predominantly the immigrant Muslim populations in Germany and France, for instance, but there are significant numbers of German citizens, native German citizens and native French citizens, either from the far right or the far left, who blame Israel…