Newsletter 25 July

FVD International is delighted that the work it carried out in 2023 and earlier this year has borne fruit in the formation of a group in the European Parliament, the Europe of Sovereign Nations group. Our Hungarian, Bulgarian, Slovak and other friends are to be warmly congratulated. We are only sorry we are not in the Parliament with them. FVD will however join the party they will form. However, David Engels, whose article we are publishing in English, is right to regret the fact that conservatives and patriots are now divided into not two but three different groups – the Patriots, ECR and now the Sovereignists. If they were in the same group they would have 187 MEPs and be very nearly the largest group (the People’s Party have 188 MEPs) and way ahead of the Socialists with 136 MEPs. What is the reason for this division of the Right? David says it is fear – which eats the soul.

Read David Engels' article here

Former Czech president Vaclav Klaus reminds us that the EU does not need elections to function.  The names of the leading officials were touted long before the poll and confirmed after it.  The EU does not care how people vote.  The president of the European Council and the president of the European Parliament are both people whom no one has ever heard of in Europe, while the new High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, like the President of the Parliament, is from a micro-state (Estonia’s population is about the same of that of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, while Malta has fewer inhabitants than Rotterdam). How can the great nations of Europe – France, Italy, Spain, even the Netherlands which is the 7th most populous country – be governed by these minnows?

Read Vaclav Klaus' article here

If you are already feeling pessimistic reading President Klaus, there is worse news around the corner.  The homes of the editor and staff of Compact Magazin in Germany were raided at dawn last week.  50 police officers got Jürgen Elsässer out of bed: he opened the door to them in his dressing gown.  The magazine (which sells 40,000 copies a month) and its video outlets (1 million views a day) have been closed down on orders of the government.  A country in which the government – not the courts – decides to close down media outlets is a dictatorship: Compact has never once been convicted of any kind of hate crime, still less of any real offence.  Yet the mere label “extreme right” used by the Minister to justify her decision is understood by many people to be good reason for closing it - even though this means, in black and white, that the decision is purely political, the “extreme right” being the current opposition in Germany.  The legal basis for the closure is non-existent, as Maike Gosch explains.

Read Maike Gosch's article here

Daniel McAdams joined us for The Forum this week to discuss the internal Democratic Party coup against Joe Biden and the anointing of Kamala Harris as the establishment’s designated successor.  Oligarchy or democracy?

Listen to The Forum here

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