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FINDING THE APPROPRIATE ANSWERS TO A LONG NEGLECTED CRISIS

Answers can be found successfully if we use our reason and if we seek the Common Good. In the 21st century either Common Good will prevail or ideologies of superiority: superiority of a nation, a religion, a race, a social class… Either peace, justice, humanity will triumph or hatred, violence

UKRAINE’S BLUNDER – A NATIONALIST EDUCATION LAW LEADS TO INTERNATIONAL UPROAR

In the early 1990s diplomacy was indeed a growth industry: as independent countries proliferated, so did diplomatic missions and their staff. The unexpected, sudden and relatively peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union introduced, or rather re-introduced Ukraine to the international community as a sizeable power that even had some nuclear

DOUGLAS MURRAY ON THE STRANGE DEATH OF EUROPE

Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilisation. It is basically an anti-Western ideology. Samuel Huntington If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell Not long before the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris I happened to

SPEECH AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATION ON CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION

Today I do not wish to talk about the persecution of Christians in Europe. The persecution of Christians in Europe operates with sophisticated and refined methods of an intellectual nature. It is undoubtedly unfair, it is discriminatory, sometimes it is even painful; but although it has negative impacts, it is

INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATION ON CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION

1 Express their deepest solidarity with the Christians and other religious minority groups that are being persecuted all around the world. 2 Welcome and support all activities of government agencies, ecclesiastical, and non-governmental organisations that speak up for the persecuted religious minorities of the world, with special regard to Christians.

NEW CHALLENGES FACING DEMOCRACY AND THE RULE OF LAW

Most national constitutions affirm and enshrine the principle of popular sovereignty. The classic tenet states that political power is derived from the people, and is exercised by the national Parliament and government created by the people through free elections. The question I wish to address here is to what extent

CONSERVATISM, POPULISM AND CONVICTION POLITICS

If one of the attributes of political skill is to convert the opposition to one’s point of view, then the obvious comparison for John Howard is with Margaret Thatcher. I certainly see the likeness, and so did she. Both converted their opposition labour parties to economic realism to the benefit of the country. Unfortunately, it is starting to look as if both conversions were temporary and both UK and Australian labour parties were today whoring after doctrines that do not even have the benefit of being strange

THE FUTURES OF EUROPE, NEGOTIABLE AND NON-NEGOTIABLE

In commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the European Commission has launched a White Paper on the Future of Europe to frame a conversation about the European Union’s post-Brexit possibilities. The White Paper celebrates the European Union’s achievements to date (and rightly so) before offering five

THE ISSUE OF GERMAN WAR REPARATIONS TO POLAND

European politics and public affairs are once again preoccupied by Poland’s rekindled claims of reparation of wartime damage against Germany. The issue is contested fiercely by politicians backed by an army of expert jurists and historians. The gist of the matter is the question of whether Poland had effectively waived