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Have you ever wondered why countries likeEngland and the Netherlands (the Anglo-Saxon world in general), have generated political systems centred on: early individualism, distrust of the invasive state and strong liberalism? In contrast to their neighbours, (only geographically from a European perspective), France of the Paris basin, Spain, Greece or Poland? Political systems are not […]

For over thirty years, Europe attempted to build its unity through law, market and governance, in the belief that the history of ideologies was now definitively over. The end of the Cold War nurtured in the Western ruling classes the idea that the great collective affiliations would gradually evaporate within an international order regulated by […]

There are times when words cease to be instruments of truth and become objects of veneration. They no longer designate reality: they replace it. They do not illuminate facts: they cover them. It is then that what we might call, with an expression that is perhaps not canonical but profoundly adherent to a long Christian […]

In a few weeks the European Central Bank is due to vote on the design of the new euro banknotes. After 24 years of idealised windows and non-existent bridges (at least until a nice Dutch artist built them all in the charming village of Spijkenisse), it is apparently time to give a strong and recognisable […]

Santiago Abascal’s party writes to the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Policy and asks for an explanation of what Pedro Sánchez allegedly said to Xi Jinping about Taiwan. Taipei’s representative office in Spain has publicly thanked him. In the background, four trips to Beijing in four years and a diplomatic line that embarrasses part of […]

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a sui generis state, born out of the 1995 Dayton Accords that ended the Balkan War. The country is divided into two administrative entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a Bosnian-Croat majority, and the Republika Srpska (RS), with a Serb majority. The latter enjoys a very large degree of […]