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Europe

How Portugal Became Inoculated Against 21st Century Revolution

BY TOM GALLAGHER Portugal is already a year into lavish anniversary commemorations of a revolution that occurred unexpectedly in 1974-75. Perhaps its culminating point was in March 1975 when sweeping nationalisations of industry and banking, as well as land, occurred. It was the most radical advance of state power into the private economic realm seen anywhere in Western Europe since 1945 and, arguably, the Portuguese … Continue reading How Portugal Became Inoculated Against 21st Century Revolution

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A Continent on Puberty Blockers

BY ALEX STORY The promise of the European Union, tacit or explicit in every treaty, was a future land of Common Agricultural Policy-funded milk and honey. It would deliver, you see, employment, stability and growth. Let us then take stock. In a quarter of a century, unemployment rates across the beleaguered Union have regularly been twice that of the United States. Over that long period, … Continue reading A Continent on Puberty Blockers

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Europe, Farming

Teruellian Tractors

BY ED ANDERSON Teruellian Tractors and Aragonese Agriculture show the best of Spain, its politicians show the worst With all eyes on the USA, it would have been easy to miss the unfolding and continuing tragedy taking place in Spain and more specifically in Valencia from the DANA. Over 200 have died from the flash floods caused by the cold air heading over the warm … Continue reading Teruellian Tractors

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Progressives are the Real Reactionaries

BY ALEX STORY European Union gross domestic product (GDP) halved since 1980 to less than 15% in 2023 as a proportion of  the world economy. EU GDP is set for another spectacular fall to 9% of the global economic activity pie by 2050, according to PwC, one of the big four global professional services firms. The plan, as formulated by the European Council in 2001 … Continue reading Progressives are the Real Reactionaries

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Is the Windsor Framework an Act of Treason by Sunak?

THE CITY GRUMP Slowly but surely, as the details of the Windsor Framework are examined it is clear, as Hugh Bennett writes in Conservative Home, that as we “peer behind the press releases and it quickly becomes apparent that the Framework is much less a new car than the same old model with a fresh lick of paint on it and a new tyre or … Continue reading Is the Windsor Framework an Act of Treason by Sunak?

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Could the UK Rejoin the EU?

BY EFFIE DEANS The UK is divided in multiple ways. It is threatened by Scottish nationalism and Irish nationalism. It is divided by people who wish to rejoin the EU and by those who resent the Remainer rearguard that has continued even beyond our actually leaving. The destruction of Liz Truss and the coronation of Rishi Sunak look oddly like a part of that rearguard … Continue reading Could the UK Rejoin the EU?

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Are the French Toast?

BY STEWART SLATER Find someone who loves you as much as The Economist loves Emmanuel Macron. The house journal of the technocracy told readers of its daily email to “Sigh with relief” for the recently re-elected Emmanuel Macron had been an “unusually good leader for France.” Well, up to a point Lord Copper. And, it turns out, that point is 41.5%, the proportion of voters … Continue reading Are the French Toast?

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The Single-Minded Country Boy

BY TOM GALLAGHER Antonio Salazar was Europe’s longest serving Prime Minister in modern times. I wonder how much this can be ascribed to his farming background? In his 36 years presiding over the affairs of Portugal, this conservative autocrat, never allowed himself to be swallowed up by the bustle and self-importance of its capital, Lisbon. He ran Portugal rather like a punctilious head butler in … Continue reading The Single-Minded Country Boy

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