Sam Vaknin
EU: Values or Valuables? Time to Suspend Hungary, Poland
In the banana republic that this country had become, the Minister of Justice is also the Attorney General.…
Compassion Fatigue: Ukrainians Not Welcome
But the indolent, decadent, and sated West is fatigued. The novelty wore off as did the self-congratulatory feel…
Qur’an Burning: The Limits of Free Speech
Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper)Both Freud and Marx maintained the view that all religions are mass psychogenic illnesses: socially…
The Wagner Syndrome: Privatizing War
Third World countries have always leveraged mercenaries to subdue adversaries at home and abroad. Many armies in Africa…
Climate Change May be an Opportunity
The typically sanctimonious French President, Macron, says that no country should have to choose between “reducing poverty and…
EU Should Not Reverse Brexit
Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper) Lord Michael Heseltine, a Conservative (Tory) stalwart, called, on the seventh anniversary of the…
EU Again Postponing the Inevitable: Western Balkans Memberships
Equally impoverished and badly governed countries – Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Malta, to mention but a few –…
Europe Needs to Militarize
Russia is capable of ramping up the production of materiel and of raising an army of millions on…
Germany and Russia Both Suppress Freedom of Political Speech
Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper) From the very inception of the war in Ukraine, I have been a vocal…
The Merits of Inflation in Europe (Part 3)
Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper) To tame inflationary pressures in the long run, Europe should focus on remedying structural…
The Merits of Inflation in Europe (Part 2)
Still, the absolute level of inflation may be less important than its volatility. Inflation targeting - the latest…
The Merits of Inflation in Europe (Part 1)
Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper) Headline inflation fell from 7% in April to an annually adjusted 6.1% in May,…
Europe’s Refugees and Immigrants Fatigue
Europe is focusing its efforts, such as they are, on defensive “security”. There is no real, coordinated, strategic…
Digital Euro: Europe’s Next Folly
The European Commission embraced the idea with great enthusiasm and in an atypical display of alacrity it vowed…
Meta vs. EU: Battle of the Gaslighters
Belgium (Brussels Morning Newspaper) The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has just overruled a decision by the Irish Data…