1. 🇩🇪AfD SCORES MORE HISTORIC WINS

Germany’s conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) party delivered another seismic performance in Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt state elections, pulling in 43.8% of the vote and securing 39 of 83 parliamentary seats.

The surge came largely at the expense of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU, which cratered from 40 seats down to just 15, a collapse AfD’s Saxony-Anhalt co-chair Ulrich Siegmund was happy to credit to Merz himself, joking that the Chancellor was “a very good campaigner for us.”

President Trump weighed in, posting on Truth Social Tuesday night: “Wow! The Populist Party in Germany just had a really big night. They finally got tired of the absolutely horrible Immigration rules and regulations which have hurt Germany so badly. THEY ARE ON THE RISE, and not going to take it anymore! MGGA!!!”

2. 🚨 NEW HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN EUROPEAN CONSERVATIVE

Thanks to Hungary’s anti-free speech move, the European Conservative is no more. Founder and Editor-in-Chief Alvino-Mario Fantini revealed this week that after a series of political upheavals in Budapest, Hungary’s Ministry of Finance now owns the publication outright.

The magazine, which Fantini built from a four-page volunteer newsletter into a 132-page quarterly reaching readers worldwide, was swallowed up when the new Hungarian government moved to dissolve the foundation governing the Matthias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), taking The European Conservative with it.

Fantini wrote in a statement: “As I write this, I do not know what the next chapter will be. The reasons The European Conservative was created, and the reasons it has had such loyal readers, have not been repealed by April’s election in Hungary. Europe still faces serious and urgent questions—about borders, demography, family, faith, identity, immigration, religion, and free speech—that much of the legacy media prefers to ignore. So, in my humble opinion, there is still a need for a project like ours.”

🌐 SENIOR EU OFFICIAL REVEALS THE TRUE AIM OF DMA

American companies have for years argued that Europe’s DMA was built against them and that it would undermine basic privacy and security safeguards for EU users. These suspicions were confirmed this week by Andreas Schwab, Chair of the European Parliament’s DMA Implementation Working Group, speaking at CCIA Europe’s 2026 European Digital Competition Day.

Schwab began his remarks by acknowledging that “the DMA has not been done for the gatekeepers but against them,” a stark contrast to the DMA’s stated goal of protecting consumers and fostering innovation across the European digital sector. The admission comes as no surprise to US firms that, since 2024, have absorbed a combined $9 billion in fines, taxes and compliance costs under the EU’s digital regulatory framework, which has functioned more as a siphon to extract American capital to aid Europe’s floundering tech sector than as a legitimate push to ensure open and fair digital markets.

Schwab also noted that “If we want to have competition, we have to make life a bit inconvenient for people,” referencing the very real security and privacy trade-offs Brussels has thrust upon EU users. These include a substantial decline in online map and search engine functions. Europeans, however, don’t view the trade-off as worthwhile, with one recent survey finding that a majority of Europeans would like services to be restored to their pre-DMA state.

As President Trump has already stated, America “is not a ‘PIGGYBANK’ for Europe, nor will we allow it to be!” In light of Schwab’s recent comments, Brussels should not expect the Trump Administration to yield on this issue. Between additional tariffs and a 301 investigation, Washington has every tool at its disposal to put Brussels in its place and ensure other regions don’t pursue similar policies. It just has to use them.

Managing public money is no longer enough for the eurocrats; they now view your personal bank accounts as a strategic resource to fund their own priorities. They’re coming for your savings, Europe.