A long-running criminal case against former Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) MEP Gunnar Beck has collapsed in spectacular form at a German district court, bringing an end to a series of accusations that had shifted dramatically in scope over two years. Beck, an academic and

"Britain’s digital ID system, the EU’s Digital Identity Wallet and the creeping administrative centralisation in both jurisdictions are manifestations of the same phenomenon. The managerial state is expanding into realms once governed by culture, communities and one’s own

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For all of its faults, the Ireland of the so-called terrible thirties could probably teach today’s preening liberal Ireland a thing or two. At the very least, there are lessons to be learned about ambition, a performance ethic, practical patriotism and indeed, the basic

The fleshing out of the EU Migration Pact is posed to diminish Irish sovereignty on the matter to depths even unthinkable in the Enda Kenny years. The significance is that Ireland is drifting into a fully Europeanised migration regime without ever having the constitutional-scale

In @VillageMagIRE historian @Davidjrb12345 recently wrote of Garrett FitzGerald's dealings with British intelligence. The Anglo-Fetishism which occupies Irish minds is far-reaching, but can the country be pulled back from the brink of state capture? https://t.co/EFLv0OmFL6

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Slovak PM Robert Fico recently commented on the need to limit the number of operational political parties in Slovakia's multi-party system. To promote stable governance, and prevent further political fragmentation, Ireland must implement Fico's ideas. https://t.co/qQsSV5gNvw

The Irish government's basic income for arts programme is to be extended next year. But despite its purported success, is this policy indicative of an underlying philosophy which could lead its extension to other sectors: Universal Basic Income? https://t.co/OB4VRNuhHd

Good piece on how extreme political fragmentation renders democracy dysfunctional. A coalition of everyone is a government of no one. Ideas have to compete and win. This is the case in Ireland and many other countries. Only Slovakia is willing to fix it. 🇮🇪🇸🇰

Slovak PM Robert Fico recently commented on the need to limit the number of operational political parties in Slovakia's multi-party system. To promote stable governance, and prevent further political fragmentation, Ireland must implement Fico's ideas. https://t.co/qQsSV5gNvw

Today Croatia remembers the fallen soldiers and civilians who died in the Croatian War of Independence. The 87 day-long Battle of Vukovar is not just a Croatian national symbol, but one of Christian Europe's resistance against the evils of Communism. https://t.co/oO3hpQlWsv

Altogether, the so-called "Irish Defence Army" affair appears less like the unmasking of a nascent terror network than another entry in a long pattern of intelligence theatre feeding into a wider political game. If this was Ireland’s great far-right conspiracy, it revealed less

Denmark is the worst-case scenario for populism. By seeking to copy Danish migration policies, Irish populists are handing an optical payload to a newly awakened Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael who will stop at nothing to obfuscate from their past failures. https://t.co/bbYJpCLCcR

Denmark is the worst-case scenario for populism. By seeking to copy Danish migration policies, Irish populists are handing an optical payload to a newly awakened Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael who will stop at nothing to obfuscate from their past failures. https://t.co/bbYJpCLCcR

Community schools exist not to cultivate learning or culture, but by bureaucratic necessity—to house children who have not yet reached the school-leaving age. It is unsurprising that many Irish parents with the means to do so avoid them. https://t.co/Y1ok47W9TY