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Andrew Gimson, the Tory Leader's Biographer, on the Man and His Von der Leyen’s The eerie growth Responding to David Cameron Venice is no city challenges in ECB power populism chillaxing in decline Ursula von der Leyen arrives in office The increasingly assertive decisions of Advocates for small government should Britain’s former Prime Minister is a man Venice is strained - groaning under with Europe in a state of disarray - Europe’s central bankers are a threat to begin by recognising the limits of their scarred by defeat in the Brexit referendum, the weight of tourism and vulnerable will the new Commission President democracy - decisions on monetary policy popularity, but they can achieve a great deal but in his new memoir he is far too hard on to rising tides. But there’s a case for be up to the challenge? should be returned to EU member states. as part of a broader conservative alliance. himself about the consequences. optimism over the city’s future. Walter Ellis p.3 Bernd Lucke MEP p.8 Daniel Hannan MEP p.13 Iain Martin p.14 Finn McRedmond p.21 Issue #10 | October 2019 A fortnightly Newspaper by the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Party | theconservative.online BATTLE of Boris Andrew Gimson, the Tory leader’s biographer, on the man and his fight for survival p.4-5 Photo: Xander Heinl - Getty Images Heinl - Getty Xander Photo: 2 FEATURE theconservative.online theconservative.online FEATURE 3 CONTENTS Poland’s PiS will profit from Can Ursula von der Leyen save Poland’s PiS will profit from divided opposition - Gerald Warner, p.2 Can Ursula von der Leyen save the European project? - Walter Ellis, p.3 The fight of Boris’s life - Andrew Gimson, p.4-5 DIVIDED OPPOSITION THE EUROPEAN PROJECT? MEPs unite behind the ECR’s condemnation of totalitarian regimes - p.6 It is difficult to see how challengers to the PiS overturn by Walter Ellis Both sides want a deal and it’s time to get on with it - p.6 its majority at Poland’s forthcoming general election ECR Group nominates the Restorers for rsula von der Leyen, whose for the EU acquis. But unless the divide the Sakharov Prize 2019 - p.6 five-year term as President between East and West becomes clearly ECR Party - Training Academy of the European Commis- unbridgeable, Von der Leyen can be - by - Funchal, Madeira p.7 Gerald Warner sion begins on November expected to speak loudly while carrying The eerie growth in ECB power 1, is probably little different than her a little stick. Belgium’s Didier Reynders, - Bernd Lucke, p.8 U predecessor, Jean-Claude Juncker. Is Shutterstock.com Photo: has been asked to devise some means Trump in poll position for 2020 - Gerald Malone, p.9 she, aged 60, a little bit more interest- of suspending, or reducing, structural funds running into billions of euros for Downfall of Trudeau exposes the ing than the little Luxemburger? Prob- hypocrisy of woke politics - Ben Kelly, p.9 ably. Juncker began his five-year tenure those member states judged wilfully Time for European reform - p.10 promising further progress towards non-compliant with “the European a more integrated Europe. He leaves way of life”. Whether such a high- European conservatism needs to reclaim Shutterstock.com Photo: its identity - Gerald Warner, p.10-11 office as the man who got nothing done risk approach will be honoured in the EU ready for clash with Big Tech over on immigration and presided, literally, breach rather than the observance is an new digital tax - Maggie Pagano, p.12 over the chaotic departure of the EU’s open question. How should conservatives respond to second-richest state. Leading the charge on the ever-ac- the present age of populism? - Daniel Hannan MEP, p.13 The first woman to hold the presi- celerating digital revolution will be A multitrack Europe is the best tonic dency and the first German since Wal- Margrethe Vestager, of Denmark, one to anti-EU sentiment - Ben Kelly, p.13 ter Hallstein more than half a century of the undoubted success stories of the Cameron chillaxing - Iain Martin, p.14 ago – Von der Leyen takes over with the Juncker years, remembered for impos- In search of Camilleri’s master detective European Project in a state of disarray. ing multi-billion-euro fines on mega Salvo Montalbano… - Robert Fox, p.15 There are many who wish to see corporations – mostly American – she Can Western culture survive without root-and-branch democratic reform, deemed to have engaged in industri- Christianity? - Marcus Walker, p.16 resulting in a more accountable Brus- al-scale tax avoidance. Vestager, one YouTube changed media forever and we are of two Spitzenkandaten Von der Leyen only just catching up - Charlotte Henry, p.16 sels machine and the restoration to the member states of powers that the Com- beat for the top job, will add digital The Italians by Luigi Barzini - Toby Guise, p.17 mission has acquired, almost casually, affairs to her existing competition port- Ad Astra - Alexander Larman, p.18 over the years in defiance of the concept folio, as well as the shared job title of Pop’s last intellectuals the Pet Shop Boys of subsidiarity – the idea that power is executive vice president, making her have staying power - John McKie, p.18 best reposed where it is closest to those one of the most important officials in European immigrants made 18th century London capital of the world - Alex Colville, p.19 whom it affects. Sovereignty is the issue the whole of the European Union. oland’s parliamentary elec- leader of Civic Platform, Grzegorz here, with East versus West (and Italy Finally, the green elephant in the Greta Thunberg? Not a patch on child prodigy: Alma Deutscher - Gerald Malone, tions will be held on Sun- Schetyna, who labours under the hand- joined with the East) presenting the room. Von der Leyen has asked the p.20 day, 13 October. The stakes icap of being the least trusted politician most obvious line of battle. Dutchman Frans Timmermans, another Venice is no city in decline are high: for the ruling Law The European left has not previously in the country. The PiS, which is affili- But there are also those, led by of the defeated spitzenkandidaten, also - Finn McRedmond, p.21 Pand Justice Party (PiS) the objective ated to the ECR Group in the European the President of France, Emmanuel an executive vice president, to draw up Michelin starred spin-off restaurants – had to contend with the winning As good as the originals? - Bruce Palling, p.22 is to confirm its hold on government Parliament, has some ongoing disputes Macron, who, with no hint of irony, the EU’s “Green New Deal”. with EU officials, notably with regard use their national leverage to press for No one doubts that the public Variety is the spice of Italian wine in order to embed further the socially combination of social conservatism - Guy Chatfield, p.22 conservative but fiscally compassion- and social largesse that has become to its reforms of the Polish judiciary. movement towards a United States of throughout Europe, from Lisbon to Culture Digest - p.23 ate policies it has pursued since coming This issue dates back to the time of Europe, with “ministers” in Brussels, Tallin, has been aroused from its car- to power in 2015; for the left the chal- the agenda of the more populist General Jaruzelski, the communist a single tax regime, an expanded Euro- bon-induced slumber, and there is lenge is to return to a parliament from strongman in Poland and the most cun- pean budget and at least the beginnings hardly a single political party of con- which it was ousted by the 2015 vote political parties and it has no effective ning of the old Soviet satraps. Foresee- of an EU-wide defence capability. sequence, on the left or the right, that The Conservative is a fortnightly newspaper and try to end the PiS ascendancy. ing the fall of communism, he imposed Where does Von der Leyen stand on President’s ongo- former East Bloc does not accept the urgency of the available in print and online published and response. Neither do the economically owned by the ECR Party, formerly known as There are 460 seats in the Sejm, the the notorious Round Table forum on all of this? Critics like to say of her that ing tariff war with there will be some challenge. But if the new Commission Alliance of the Conservatives and Reformists Polish parliament, with 100 seats in the democratic opposition, one of its she has risen without trace, citing her China continues satisfaction that genuinely embraces a radical approach in Europe (ACRE). liberal parties whose fiscal agendas the Senate. Members of the Sejm are legacies being a judiciary manned by ill-starred tenure as German defence to pose a threat their concerns for a that starts on Day One and leads to a The Conservative can be read online at: elected by open party-list proportional exclude significantly expanding social Party hacks that remained self-perpet- minister – during which her country’s to European eco- Having left domestic concerns “Christian” Europe carbon-neutral environment within theconservative.online representation with seats allocated expenditure. uating in post-communist times. armed forces continued to rot – as her nomic stability. behind her, the new President will have at least been the next ten years, expect an indig- REPRODUCTION RIGHTS The Soviet Union has gone, but Rus- Just as pressing, acknowledged. nant response from industry and other All content and materials of under the d’Hondt system, with a 5 per only significant administrative expe- The Conservative are copyrighted, unless cent threshold for individual parties record turnout in Poland at this year’s But that option is not open to the sia remains and Poland regards it as a rience.
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