Brussels is out of control.

But people across Europe have had enough.

@FSI_Europe exists to give a voice to the patriotic political movement, and provide the ideas and arguments we need to win.

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What does the European Parliament actually spend its time on?

🌍 MORE time debating countries OUTSIDE the EU than making EU laws: 28.8% vs 17.8%. We went through every plenary agenda since July 2024: 36 sessions, 1,049 hours, every debate, every vote 🧵👇

🔎 Don’t take our word for it. We used the Parliament’s own agendas for all 36 sessions, cross-checked them against the official transcripts for 11 sitting days, and used voting data from HowTheyVote.eu.

😏 “Then again, maybe that is for the best: every hour MEPs spend debating countries outside the EU is an hour they cannot spend on new red tape.”
Richard Schenk, Research Director, FSI Europe

🌱 Any hope? Barely. Time on EU law and the budget has doubled, from 11.5% to 24.2% 📈 Yes, the new Commission was slow to table laws. But it took almost 2 years to get going, and MEPs STILL spend less than a quarter of their time on the job they were elected for 🙄

⏱️ 100 minutes slamming Trump’s deportations in Minneapolis. Just 29 minutes on the EU’s OWN new deportation law 🤦 Or 87 minutes on Gaza, while a new EU law on your pension and benefits if you work in another EU country gets a mere 35.

💬 “The European Parliament now behaves like a transnational activist NGO. It lectures the world on everything from Minneapolis to the Amazon, yet it is too arrogant to deal with the bread-and-butter issues that matter to Europeans.”

Frank Füredi, President, FSI Europe

Our own @Norm_Lewis questions the lack of transparency in the closed-door digital strategy pow-wow.

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At 11 am on 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent. Millions had answered their nation’s call, and nations, not abstractions, mourned them.
Remembrance asks something of us: to keep faith with the countries they served.

Predictably, liberal elites in Poland leapt on the mass shooting as result of the “far right”.

This relentless attempt to demonise conservatives is sickening.

In reality, what we know about the shooter points in a much more worrying direction.

Me in @spikedonline

Truly laughable.

The problem was not the out-of-control riots, the social decay and breakdown visible in France, nor the estrangement of huge numbers from the values of France.

The EU says the real problem was the Russians drawing attention to it!

Multiculturalism has failed. Citizenship must mean contribution and integration—but people also need a confident society to integrate into.

@tonygilland on rebuilding a shared sense of community, speaking to @NewCultureForum.

Trump built a broad coalition and shook the woke establishment. But he has squandered that opportunity, says @tonygilland.

The populist movement now needs serious politicians with a strategy. On @NewCultureForum:

Riot police surrounded Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, while the president turned his plane around to return to Warsaw.

@tonygilland tells @NewCultureForum what happened that night—and why it represents such a huge challenge to democracy in Poland.

The EU’s “rule of law” is a weapon against countries that stand up for their sovereignty and culture.

@tonygilland on Brussels, Donald Tusk and the battle for Poland’s future, speaking to @NewCultureForum.

SPAIN’S ELECTION PLANNED WITH BIG TECH BEHIND CLOSED DOORS - WE DEMAND TRANSPARENCY

Spain’s regulator for digital services, the CNMC, has held a closed-door meeting with Google, Meta, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, Wikimedia and X to prepare for Spain’s general election on 29 Commission backed the meeting. Spain’s electoral authorities attended, along with civil society organisations and academics whose names have not been made public.

According to the CNMC, the meeting was meant to set up channels and protocols for cooperation between the authorities and the platforms if ‘serious incidents’ occur during the campaign. The legal basis is the EU’s Digital Services Act, which requires the largest platforms to limit ‘systemic risks’ to elections.

George Orwell has been resurrected in Spain. Democracy in the coming election is being protected from behind closed doors. Spain’s regulator, the European Commission, Big Tech and unnamed ‘civil society’ organisations, all of them unelected and unaccountable, are discussing electoral safeguards without publishing any of the measures they propose.

In the EU today, the public gets a ballot, while unelected guardians get a private meeting about the information surrounding it. This is managed democracy. Citizens keep the right to vote, while their freedom to judge competing arguments becomes a ‘risk’ for their guardians to manage.

Spanish voters do not know which organisations were in the room or what role they will play during the campaign. They do not know what counts as a ‘serious incident’, or who decides when the protocols are triggered.

The Democracy Interference Observatory has therefore filed access requests with both the European Commission and the CNMC. We have asked for the list of participants, the minutes, the platforms’ election plans, correspondence between the Commission and the CNMC, and any protocols agreed.

We call on the Commission and the CNMC to publish the list of participants before polling day. Elections belong to voters, not to regulators and platforms.

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