Volkswagen is no longer facing a simple internal restructuring. The German group is considering a downsizing plan that could affect up to 100,000 jobs worldwide and lead to the closure of four plants in Germany—Hanover, Zwickau, Emden, and Neckarsulm (the latter associated with Audi) after previously reaching an agreement with unions to eliminate 50,000 jobs by 2030.
The figure places Germany’s largest industrial company in the midst of its most severe labour crisis in decades.
The American economy is leaving Europe behind. It is happening in real time, and nothing can stop it. America has chosen the future; Europe has chosen its own demise.
This is not just a slogan. It is the cold, hard truth visible in stack upon stack of economic statistics. The fact that Europe’s political leadership remains blind, deaf, and willfully ignorant of the economic decline of their continent is one of history’s many self-imposed tragedies.
It seems incredible that what could be described as a ‘he said / she said’ between US president Donald Trump and Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has become an international incident. In the aftermath of Trump claiming Meloni ‘begged’ him for a photo at last week’s G7 summit in France (a claim categorically denied by the Italian PM), Italian foreign minister Antonio Tajani cancelled his scheduled meeting with US counterpart Marco Rubio next month. The rhetoric between the two countries has only escalated since, with Trump accusing Italy of being an ungrateful ally.
On Thursday, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced in a meeting with NATO allies in Brussels that the Pentagon would begin a six-month review of U.S. military involvement in Europe. This review, he asserted, “will be designed to ensure that NATO is moving fast and irreversibly toward Europe leading, stepping up to take primary responsibility for the defence of Europe.”
or 70 years, the transatlantic relationship rested on a fiction that flattered both sides. America was the guarantor of a rules-based order, and Europe was its co-architect. The fiction was useful, and for a long stretch it was even partly true. But it hid a harder fact, and that fact is now impossible to ignore. Europe was never the coauthor of that order. It was its protected interior. The arrangement had a name we were too polite to use: a protectorate.
The Associated Press reported, “France endured sizzling temperatures on Sunday, with trains, concerts and sports events canceled and authorities cracking down on drinking alcohol in public, as an exceptional heat wave unfurled across parts of Europe.”
The story also said, “Over the last four years, more than 200,000 people across Europe died from heat-related causes, and most of the fatalities were preventable, the World Health Organization’s Europe office said this month. More above-average temperatures are expected this summer, which can cause heat exhaustion and life-threatening heat stroke.”
Almost one quarter of European voters now back parties labelled “far-right” by a partisan research network that has repeatedly been criticised for weaponising the term.
According to a new report tracking election results across Europe, the share of voters supporting national conservative parties has increased nearly fivefold since the mid-1990s, with particularly rapid growth over the past three years. The findings were enthusiastically reported by the UK’s left-wing Guardian newspaper, which also happens to be a partner organisation of the researchers behind the study.
Years of open-door policies and unchecked immigration have resulted in a rise of radical Islamism across Europe — and some countries are looking to reverse course.
In the United Kingdom, migrant rape gangs have victimized at least 250,000 British girls over the past several decades, a recent report conducted by Restore Britain, led by Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe, found. A disproportionate number of attackers came from Pakistani Muslim backgrounds, according to the report, which cited court records, previous inquiries, and witness testimonies.
For decades after the end of the Cold War in 1989, defense was not a high priority for European leaders.
Military spending was slashed, armed forces were downsized, and equipment stockpiles depleted, resulting in diminished combat readiness.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, however, served as a wake-up call and prompted European governments to reverse course and focus on defense.
Growing uncertainty about US security commitments under President Donald Trump accelerated the trend.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday lashed out at NATO allies during the announcement of a six-month Pentagon review of U.S. forces in Europe, saying the future of the alliance depended on others stepping up their defence spending.
He also appeared to take a veiled dig at recent remarks made by Prime Minister Mark Carney about middle powers needing to band together.
Europe like Canada will have to contend with a huge 5th Column and traitor class capable of upending any effort at self defense.
When you invite the enemy to overrun your country expect negative consequences Canada.
Canada is not capable of defending its borders and there will no Band of Middle Powers riding to the rescue.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Thursday berated NATO alliance partners over their military spending and lack of initial support for the US war in Iran.
Addressing fellow defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Hegseth doubled down on US President Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw troops from Europe — where Washington stations them in order to aid in the defense of Europe, as well as to enable the more rapid projection of US military might abroad.
Hegseth said Washington would conduct a review to “examine America’s force posture and basing in Europe.”
The images of riots in the United Kingdom are not a passing nuisance. They are a warning in flames. For decades, detached political elites have imposed a radical demographic and cultural transformation across Europe under the banner of progressivism. This has targeted the very core of our civilisation. Traditional values, nuclear family, Christian faith: They are relentlessly undermined. Indigenous populations are forced to watch the destruction of their homelands. With millions of new poor and nobody safe anymore, violent reaction is to be expected.
The orange lights of the street lamps, the wet asphalt, a black shadow savagely attacking a white body as if it were slitting a goat’s throat at the Mogadishu market. A video like this cannot be invented.
Instead, one thinks of those dark centuries we thought we had relegated to the margins of history, those times when heads were cut off to be displayed on bastions and the “defeated” were mutilated so that their flesh would speak louder than their deaths.
And I wondered if our main weakness has not become the inability to recognize barbarism when it appears before us.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a great speech on D-Day in Normandy.
He told the Europeans they were committing civilizational suicide by allowing themselves to be “invaded” by unassimilable migrants.
It was the kind of warning you give to a friend who you see is making a terrible mistake.
Only 11% of Europeans consider the United States to be an ally, a historic low, according to a survey by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) released on Wednesday.
Six months ago, 16% of people across 15 countries in Europe said they viewed the US as an ally, while in November 2024, when Donald Trump won the US presidential election, the figure stood at 22%.
The ECFR poll shows Europeans “embrace self-reliance and are clear-eyed about Donald Trump,” although they don’t expect the relationship to collapse entirely under the weight of the current challenges.
A majority of respondents said they did not think the US would come to Europe’s defense if it were attacked.
The Eurotrash pictured above have been unable and or unwilling to secure Europe’s borders against an ongoing mass illegal alien invasion.
France has virtually ceded control of the Banlieues to Islamists and criminal gangs.
They won’t protect their own people so why should the USA waste it’s time on them?
Carney is a likeminded Eurotrash wannabe who wants us to ally with these blowhard frauds.
