Portuguese PM Scores Own Goal in No-Confidence Saga
By Miguel Nunes Silva In The European Conservative *** In a 142-88 vote with no abstentions, opposition lawmakers ousted the Portuguese administration after only 11 months in office. After Portugal’s third largest party CHEGA! and the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) both presented votes of no confidence against the ‘centre-right’ government of PM Luís Montenegro in the past […]
Portugal’s Establishment Right Under Siege
By Miguel Nunes Silva In The European Conservative *** On Sunday 16th, Portugal’s third largest party CHEGA! [PfE]—currently at around 20% in the polls— announced that it would present a vote of no confidence against the ‘centre-right’ government of PM Luís Montenegro, who narrowly won a slight plurality in last year’s national election. In 2024, […]
Boy King, Deep State
By Miguel Nunes Silva In The European Conservative *** “Let life be short, else shame will be too long” Shakespeare, Henry V Fate has its ironies. The successor to the larger-than-life Henry VIII would end up being his infant son Edward VI, who would only rule for six years. While not as seminal as […]
After 3 Violent Murders, Portugal’s Government Cannot Ignore Criminal Migrants
By Miguel Nunes Silva In The European Conservative *** Mere days after Portugal’s biggest-ever demonstration against mass immigration, three people were murdered in Santa Apolónia, one of Lisbon’s main railway hubs. On Sunday, the CHEGA! (CH) party—now Portugal’s third largest but a mere 5 years old—organised a demonstration which gathered thousands protesting against current immigration […]
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 […]
Kissinger: A Machiavellian Conservative
By Miguel Nunes Silva In The European Conservative *** Other than heads of state or military leaders, few people manage to be truly consequential in world history. Diplomats access the hallways of power, but they primarily do the bidding of their political masters. Academics fare even worse and often find themselves even more distant from […]
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, […]
The Portuguese Right Unites Against Lula’s Visit
By Miguel Nunes Silva In The European Conservative *** Last week, on April 25th, Portugal celebrated the 49th anniversary of the 1974 Carnation Revolution, a significant event for the Portuguese Left which usually involves a host of politically symbolic ceremonies marking the overthrow of the Salazar regime. This year, the ruling Partido Socialista (Socialist Party […]
Westphalia vs. Appomattox: The Problem with the New World’s Approach to Geopolitics
By Miguel Nunes Silva In The European Conservative *** It is an irony of fate that today, well into the 21st century, in an era of decadence of Western primacy in the world, it is the rest of the planet praising the principle of sovereignty while we in the West—its birthplace—are undermining it. Our civilisation […]
