Europe

The End of Catholic Europe?

Europe must return to the Catholic Faith, abandon its postliberal progressivism, and once again embrace its Catholic identity.

Over the course of his life, English author and Catholic convert Evelyn Waugh insisted that the Catholic Faith is fundamental to the identity of Europe. A seasoned travel writer, war correspondent, and World War II veteran, Waugh had traveled across much of Europe and seen the damage done by various anti-Christian philosophies, ideologies, and movements. In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, he wrote, “The history of Europe is the history of the Church; the two are inseparable.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCatholic Church, Europe

Migrant crisis: How Europe went from Merkel’s ‘We can do it’ to pulling up the drawbridge

The day they appeared he could hardly believe his eyes. Small boat after small boat bearing in from the Turkish side. “I have so many memories that are coming back to me now,” says Paris Louamis, 50, a hotelier on the Greek island of Lesbos. “There were people from Syria, Afghanistan, many countries.”

This was August 2015 and Europe was witnessing the greatest movement in population since the end of the Second World War. More than a million people would arrive in the EU over the next few months driven by violence in Syria, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere.

I witnessed the arrivals on Lesbos and met Paris Laoumis as he was busy helping exhausted asylum seekers near his hotel. “I am proud of what we did back then,” he tells me. Along with international volunteers he provided food and clothing to those arriving.

With rare exceptions such as Hungary and Poland the elites across Europe should be tried for what amounted to a sinister act of treason.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Europe

We led a delegation to investigate Europe’s targeting of free speech. What we saw shocked us

Instead of fixing a surging migrant crisis and stagnant economy, the UK and EU are even trying to censor American critics of their policies

Earlier this month, we led a delegation to Brussels and London to see how aggressive European speech regulations affect American free speech rights in the digital town square. What we saw shocked us.

Last Congress, the House Judiciary Committee examined how the Biden administration pressured social media companies to limit free speech in America. We successfully fought back against that overreach. But today, the most serious risk to free speech comes from across the Atlantic.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Europe, Freedom of speech

The Death of the Night Out

Generation Z is often maligned as a ‘homebody generation.’ Battered by the rising cost of living and stunted by the COVID-19 pandemic, today’s youth would seemingly rather sit at home, scrolling and focussing on ‘self-care’ than socialising with friends. They prefer matcha lattes and Pilates to wild nights out.

The impact of this is being felt across Western Europe. In France, 70% of nightclubs have shut down since the 1980s. In Amsterdam and Barcelona, venues are calling last orders much earlier than they used to. And in formerly lively Berlin, you’re now just as likely to get chucked out at 10 p.m. as 4 a.m. The UK, too, has lost around 400 clubs—more than a third—in the last five years alone. In London specifically, a city once world-renowned for its vibrant nightlife and music scene, just 6% of venues open past 2 a.m. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Camp Of The Saints, Europe, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

When Did We Lose Europe?

Donald Trump has issued a warning to the EU from Scotland: “On immigration, you better get your act together.” He added, “You’re not going to have Europe anymore.” The U.S. president has told European leaders to their faces what almost everyone already acknowledges in private. The Great Replacement was not a conspiracy theory. It is a sad reality. And perhaps Trump’s words are a good opportunity to go back to the beginning and, frankly, answer the big question that concerns all Europeans: When did we lose Europe?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, Illusion of Permanence

President Trump’s clarion call to Europeans about the perils of endless immigration

Donald Trump is visiting Europe. Upon arriving there, when asked about migration, he had a blunt response, which is that unlimited immigration is killing Europe. The elites were outraged, but I suspect that the common man in Europe had the same response that the dissidents did in 1983, when Ronald Reagan bucked the sophisticated elites and accurately called the Soviet Union an “evil empire.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Europe, President Trump

Trump, EU Reach Tariff Deal To Avoid Trade War

President Trump said he reached a trade deal with the European Union late on Sunday, avoiding a trade war with the US’s largest trading partner and marking his biggest deal so far in his attempt to remake the global trading system through higher tariffs for U.S. trading partners.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, European Union, USA

Trump: immigration is ‘killing Europe’

President Trump said immigration is “killing Europe” as he arrived in Scotland at the start of a four-day visit.

Speaking to reporters after landing at Prestwick airport on Friday evening, Trump said: “On immigration, you better get your act together or you’re not going to have Europe anymore. You got to get your act together.

“You know, last month, we had nobody entering our country. Nobody. Shut it down.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Camp Of The Saints, Europe, Europe - demographic suicide, European Union, President Trump

Will small nationalisms remake Europe? The continent’s frontiers are never fixed

San Candido is Italy — if only someone would tell the locals. Even before you arrive, past needle peaks and pine trees, you’ll notice the road signs: “Innichen” defiantly above, “S. Candido” almost a nickname below. Once you reach the centre, the houses are all Alpine shutters, and the villagers cry “Grüss Gott” (God bless) for hello. In the cafés, you can sip on schnapps, or gorge on strudels the size of your fist. Spend long enough here, where Italy nuzzles Austria, and even the cows seem to moo for Mitteleuropa.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope

Putin knows we are spreadsheet warriors and Europe is in no position to fight

The European Union has experienced quite a few shocks over the past two decades. The most significant one was not Covid, or Brexit, or the Ukraine war. It was the sovereign debt crisis. The fairytale story is that Mario Draghi single-handedly ended the crisis when he told the world that he would do “whatever it takes” to save the euro. He was the president of the European Central Bank when he announced a backstop. It is a convenient explanation because it assumes that the crisis is over.

I am going to put my head on the block to predict that this crisis could come back sooner than we think. Last time, it was the southern Europeans who triggered it. This time, it is the northern Europeans with their relentless push for an increase in defence spending to 5% of GDP.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEU, Europe, European Union, NATO, Russia

The Outbreak of Migrant-Related Crime and Rape in the EU

Various EU nations have endured an outbreak of sexual assault and violent crime as a result of compliance with EU migration policies.

On June 9th 2025, two migrants were arrested and charged with the attempted rape of a 14-year old Irish girl in the town of Ballymena.

In response, scores of beleaguered Irish people have now, for days, cascaded throughout the streets of Ballymena, in an effort to decry and protest the hyper-liberal migration policies that have decimated public safety in their hometown and transformed the once-noble Irish nation into a morass of violent crime and sexual assault.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Europe

Canada to join major European rearmament deal as early as June 23: sources

Prime Minister Mark Carney plans on joining a sweeping European plan in Belgium this month to rearm the continent and provide more military aid to Ukraine, CBC News has learned.

Last month, Carney signalled to CBC’s Power & Politics that he hopes to sign on to the new defence initiative by Canada Day as he tries to move away from relying on the United States for weapons and munitions.

Now sources with knowledge of the matter say Carney is expected to join the rearmament deal as early as June 23, when he meets with European leaders in Brussels at the EU-Canada summit.

I guess this will grant all the NATO deadbeats a new forum in which to make grandiose defence promises that will never be kept. Medals for everyone!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, Europe, USA

Canada-Europe defence ties can link ‘club of countries, with shitty armies and shitty governments’ says German envoy

If Canada decides to buy submarines from Germany, it would mean tightening ties with a “club of countries” in Europe as it looks to meet NATO defence spending goals and face an uncertain world, Germany’s ambassador says.

Matthias Lüttenberg, Germany’s ambassador to Canada, sat down with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson in an interview airing on Sunday and emphasized the value of working more closely together.

“It’s up to the Canadian government to decide which direction they want to go,” said Lüttenberg.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, Europe