LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke German Chancellor Angela Merkel is not backing away from statements she made Sunday questioning the nature of Germany’s relationship with the U.S. and urging Europeans to “take fate into our own hands.” Merkel’s remarks were meant to signal a new way of approaching transatlantic relations with both the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jacob Bojesson Hungary and Slovakia addressed the European Court of Justice Wednesday in a joint case against the European Union’s refugee distribution scheme. The EU Council has moved to distribute hundreds of thousands of refugees across Europe to lighten the burden on Italy and Greece. The Hungarian government has…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen called for the expulsion of all terrorist suspects from France Friday, in the wake of Thursday’s Islamic State attack. Le Pen, the leader of France’s right-wing National Front party, has been the most hawkish candidate on security issues and is a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Dries Van Thielen On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Theresa May announced that new elections will be held on June, 8. These remarks come as a surprise for the Prime Minister denounced on numerous occasions the unnecessity of elections. She told 10 Downing Street, the cabinet of the British Prime Minister: I have…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti The commissioner for the European Union’s “Common Immigration and Asylum Policy” said the bloc can force member states to accept refugees, the Associated Press reports. The commissioner, Dimitris Avramopoulos, said that the bloc has the “tools, the means and the power,” to force member states to comply. Avramopoulos’s comments came during…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read The British House of Commons approved a bill Monday, which would allow the prime minister to trigger the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union. The House of Commons, the U.K.’s lower house of parliament, also rejected amendments passed by the House of Lords (the upper house)…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jacob Bojesson An overwhelming majority of British members of parliament voted Wednesday to allow Prime Minister Theresa May to start Brexit negotiations with the European Union. The government’s European Union Bill passed with 498 votes to 114. The vote comes a week after the British Supreme Court ruled the…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jacob Bojesson Guy Verhofstadt, the European Union’s Brexit negotiator, lists U.S. President Donald Trump as one of three existential threats facing the EU. Verhofstadt said Trump, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and radical Islamists, is part of a three-pronged attempt to break up the European Union. “I have…
TLR Exclusive Interview with MEP Daniel Hannan by Pia Varma Great Britain has always been a fiercely independent European nation, but it is also a nation that plans before it acts. Its Glorious Revolution in 1688 brought forth the English Bill of Rights, in a strategic, parliamentary fashion rather than by a violent, mob revolt….
Recent Election Trends Show Disdain for Big Government By Pia Varma What yesterday’s Presidential election has proven more than anything else,is that people are sick of government corruption and bureaucracy. Whether Donald Trump is the right man for the job or not is irrelevant. For all his plethora of faults, the fact of the matter is…