Queixa relativa ao Esquema ReArm da Comissão Von der Leyen
No dia 16 de Abril de 2025, o Instituto enviou um protesto à Comissão Europeia relativo à ilegalidade do seu esquema de rearmamento e posteriormente reencaminhou-a também para a Provedora de Justiça Europeia: Queixa relativa a má administração, apropriação indevida de funções, quebra grave do princípio da cooperação institucional e violação do princípio da […]
Iran’s Karma
By Miguel Nunes Silva In Brussels Report *** It may seem like a distant memory now but half a century ago, Tel Aviv and Tehran were close allies. Much changed after the Islamic revolution but the enmity was not an inevitability. The Carter administration was even willing to recognize the new theocratic regime which had […]
What to Expect from António Costa
By Miguel Nunes Silva In The European Conservative *** The Brussels bubble has been expressing its great comfort with the choice of António Costa for the presidency of the European Council. They are correct: Costa could not be a better choice of personality to advance the deep (supranational) state agenda. Costa is a consummate politician […]
The end of the road for Macron?
By Miguel Nunes Silva In Brussels Report *** When Emmanuel Macron was first elected President of France in 2017, the Hexagon was already in deep trouble: 100% GDP to public debt ratio, enormous social strife as a result of decades of mass immigration from the developing world, and a sclerotic public administration apparatus refusing deep […]
Cosmopolistan
By Miguel Nunes Silva In The European Conservative *** One of the central features of the diplomatic career is the practice of temporary assignments. In the beginning, before the centralisation of governments and the professionalisation of diplomacy, inter-governmental contacts were left to third parties such as merchants or clergymen. The practice was eventually discontinued because, […]
