Europe

Ten years ago on Thursday, Islamist terrorists massacred 130 people in a coordinated attack across Paris. It was the heaviest loss of life on French soil since World War Two, and those who perished – as well as the 350 who were wounded – were remembered yesterday in a series of commemorations. Emmanuel Macron visited the six sites where the terrorists struck, among them the Stade de France and the Bataclan concert hall, and the President inaugurated a memorial garden at Place Saint-Gervais, opposite Paris City Hall. According to the Élysée Palace ahead of proceedings, the day would be an opportunity for the nation “to honor the memory of those

It’s finally crunch time for Boris Pistorius’s plan to reintroduce military service in Germany. Following a delay of several months thanks to the country’s snap federal election campaign at the start of the year, the defense minister’s new “Modernization of Military Service” draft law is currently being debated in Berlin. Under Pistorius’s proposals, all 18-year-olds will be asked to complete a questionnaire that will gauge their willingness and ability to carry out military service. For men, the quiz will be compulsory; for “other genders” – including women – it will be optional. Those who declare themselves willing to serve will be invited for a formal assessment for recruitment into the

This week has been a tale of two presidents

Like J.D. Vance and Donald Trump, in an age of immediate media, Nigel Farage’s great weapon is that he is human

The European team won the Ryder Cup – so what are they moaning about?

At the Ryder Cup, America’s golfers are losing on the links, and the country’s fans are losing in the stands

The country remains trapped in economic mediocrity

The ambassador is right to call out French anti-Semitism

Speech is the enemy, it seems, and it must be suppressed

In Britain, as with Washington DC, American leaders are now saving localities from too much self-rule run amok

Of course, in Trumpworld, trade-offs don’t exist. There’s no downside, no losing. There’s only ‘winning’

His sentimentality could lead to the death of European culture

Bits from Candace Owens and Freddy Gray’s interview

Trump’s decision to cut ties (again) is for the best

The President and First Lady of France have filed a 200-page complaint against a YouTuber

The history of the prize, like history itself, is messy