Thomas Fazi

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...

Operation Purgatory. It sounds like a Pete Hegseth fever dream. In fact, it's Péter Magyar's name for his assault on the Orbán system and all its works.

How Europe conquered Hungary

Saxony-Anhalt, in the western part of eastern Germany, is hardly the country's most important state: it accounts for only a fraction of Germany's

The AfD’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday was crushing. The party achieved 43.8% of the vote share, more than double its 2021 result though still short of an absolute majority of seats. But this was a historic election in other respects. At 77.8%, the turnout was the highest the state has recorded since reunification, in [...]Read More...