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Russia says America will join their anti-LGBT Eurovision rival
Putin is reviving Intervision, the Communist rival to Eurovision during the Cold War, as an anti-Ukraine, anti-gay alternative. They've just announced…
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Can anything halt America's path toward civil conflict?
Trump has nationalised California's military and threatened to arrest its governor for objecting. As troops flood LA streets, the president is forcing a…
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Dave Keating
After Iberian blackout, EU prepares for cyberattacks
National governments today updated the 'cybersecurity blueprint' to take into account latest technologies and recent experiences, including April's…
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Dave Keating
America is pursuing regime change in Europe
The far-right candidate won yesterday's presidential election in Poland, thanks at least in part to help from the Trump regime. Centrist EU governments…
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Dave Keating
Despite her new tone, VDL is still afraid to criticise America by name
President von der Leyen says the EU's main focus must now be "building an independent Europe" and "casting off our shackles". But she won't name who…
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Dave Keating

May 2025

What a week: live with Dave Keating and Julien Hoez
Dave and Julien discuss the messy US tariff court rulings, the Council blocking Spanish regional languages from becoming EU-official, Orban's Budapest…
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Julien Hoez
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Sanchez shot down on request to make Catalan an official EU language
Other EU governments are concerned that opening EU official status to regional languages and dialects will open the flood gates and cost taxpayers…
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How the US always gets away with it
Anglo-American media seems to start with an assumption of systemic EU corruption and work backwards from there. What if Europeans wrote about America…
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Should the EU ban carry-on luggage charges?
European consumer organisations have filed a complaint asking the Commission to investigate new budget airline fees. Airlines say distinguishing cabin…
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Europe reacts with a shrug to Starmer's UK-EU summit
While it attracted a slew of hyperbolic reactions in Britain that seemed divorced from reality, yesterday's UK-EU summit got barely any attention in…
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What the hell just happened at Eurovision...again?
The song contest's new lax rules for public voting seems to have resulted again in votes being cast by people who haven't watched the show but want to…
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On Sunday, Romania may be the latest to fall to the far right
Nationalist George Simion is benefitting from public anger over the nullification of the first attempt at an election. Despite his negativity toward…
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Dave Keating
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