Brussels, Brussels, Brussels.

What in the world are you doing nowadays?

It all started so nice, a couple of years after World War II. Everybody ‘understood’ that European states had to learn to work together, to respect each other, and to become interconnected. If we didn’t, a third world war might not be far off.

Making continental free trade a top priority was, indeed, a great idea.

Somewhere along the way, however, you took a wrong turn. Suddenly we were ruled by an out-of-touch European elite, who didn’t care about the wishes of voters. They had their plans, Europeans themselves be damned.

The results are horrendous: the EU – and the Eurozone – has become bigger and bigger, and at the same time weaker and weaker. Every couple of years, a new state is added. That may not have been so bad if these were strong, vibrant states. Sadly, however, that’s not the case.| MORE ›

Man, it certainly is great that those Americans fi-nal-ly elected an intelligent guy, a man from Harvard no less, and a man of the world.

Oh yes, Obama really does wonders for the relationships between European states and the United States. He knows how to behave and he would never – evah! – do anything to insult Europeans or make himself look like an ass.

Uh, never mind that.| MORE ›

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire.

That’s basically how one can summarize the situation in Europe. Several (Southern) European countries are on the brink of collapse. Greece is as near bankruptcy as can be. At the same time, Western and Northern Europeans are becoming increasingly disturbed by the irresponsible behavior of the Greek, and of other nations.

Other nations, you ask?

Why yes.| MORE ›

Europe’s finance ministers are panicking: they’ve done everything in their power – or so they believe – to save the Euro, yet the currency is becoming worth less and less. They don’t understand what’s going on, they’ve pumped billions into the Euro and into Europe’s failing economies, yet the European stock markets continue their free fall.| MORE ›

Oh no, this is an extremely dangerous development:

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Georgia on Wednesday, almost a year after a war with Russia that turned the small nation on the far frontier of Europe into the epicenter of the simmering conflict between Moscow and the West.| MORE ›

We now know how Silvio Berlusconi became the most successful and longest sitting prime minister of Italy since World War II: beautiful women:| MORE ›

So, Barack Obama is currently touring Europe. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking: Europe, why? Doesn’t he detest the Old Continent?

Well, yeah. Judging by the way he has treated Europe ever since he became president, at least.

Apparently, however, he now feels we’re somehow of vital importance for his agenda.| MORE ›

One of the best conservative commentators in Europe, Theodore Dalrymple, wrote a great articlefor Pajamas Media about the crisis in Europe and especially Germany’s reaction to it. As usual with Dalrymple, the article provocatively entitled “Reawakening German Nationalism: What Could Go Wrong,” is sarcastically written, funny, direct and, most importantly, largely correct.| MORE ›

U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize last week.| MORE ›

The most boring yearly concert in Europe will take place today. It is called Eurovision: European countries send their ‘best’ singers to this concert. They compete. The population of the individual European countries and their juries vote for who they think did best, and the act with most votes wins. It is a bit like Idols or America’s Next Popstar, but then the patriotic European version.| MORE ›

When I first heard that Spaniards were considering launching an investigation into allegations that six senior Bush administration officials—including ex-Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales—gave legal cover for the torture of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, I thought to myself: “there we go again.| MORE ›