The European Conservative media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give The European Conservative one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Right. We have seen it on 9 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is The European Conservative biased?
The rating organisations do not give The European Conservative one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is The European Conservative left or right?
The rating organisations do not give The European Conservative one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans right; Media Bias/Fact Check: Right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is The European Conservative reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for The European Conservative are Media Bias/Fact Check: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What The European Conservative has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with The European Conservative’s own report linked underneath.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, according to exit polls. This marks the first time a far-right party has achieved such a result in modern German history, though it is unclear if the AfD can form a government alone.
The European Conservative reported it asAfD Wins Landslide Victory in Saxony-Anhalt (opens The European Conservative in a new tab)
Germany accused Russia of a drone attack at Leipzig airport on August 4-5. Russian President Vladimir Putin denied involvement, suggesting Germany fabricated evidence to address domestic political issues. Germany closed Russia's consulate and cultural center in Bonn and summoned its ambassador.
The European Conservative reported it asLeipzig Airport Drone: Germany Says It Was Russia (opens The European Conservative in a new tab)
Twelve migrants have been arrested in Ceuta following an incident where a military patrol was attacked with stones. Four soldiers sustained injuries during the early morning assault in the Benzú neighbourhood. The number of attackers is estimated to be between 30 and 40 individuals.
The European Conservative reported it asMore Violence In Ceuta: Clashes With Residents, Ambush On Soldiers (opens The European Conservative in a new tab)
Dozens of Ceuta residents blocked Red Cross trucks delivering food to migrants, with some protesters damaging and burning part of a migrant camp. Police deployed riot control units and fired warning shots.
The European Conservative reported it asMore Violence In Ceuta: Clashes With Residents, Ambush On Soldiers (opens The European Conservative in a new tab)
Ministry of Justice figures show white prisoners account for around 20% of the Muslim prison population in England and Wales, a rate nearly four times higher than in the general population. This has led to calls for an investigation into potential forced conversions.
The European Conservative reported it asWhite British Inmates Forced To Convert to Islam? (opens The European Conservative in a new tab)
A drone carrying approximately 800 grams of Semtex was discovered near a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport on 5 August 2026. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt described the incident as a 'new threat scenario', while outlets diverged on attributing responsibility and the plane's cargo.
The European Conservative reported it asDrone ‘Carrying Explosives’ Found Near Ukrainian Aircraft at German Airport (opens The European Conservative in a new tab)
Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and its region killed over a dozen people and wounded others on 5 August 2026. The attacks destroyed Rozetka’s largest warehouse in Brovary, near Kyiv, and damaged homes in the Brovary district. No centre- or right-rated outlets covered the strikes.
The European Conservative reported it asRussia’s Deadly Missile and Drone Barrage on Kyiv Kills at Least 17 (opens The European Conservative in a new tab)
Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces struck an S-400 missile system in Gelendzhik, Russia, along with a Tor and Pantsir-S1 system, two radar stations, and three shadow fleet vessels in the Black Sea on 8 August 2026. The operation, part of a broader campaign, targeted military and logistical assets.
The European Conservative reported it asCivilians Killed as Ukrainian Military Drone Crashes on Southern Russian Beach (opens The European Conservative in a new tab)
A man accused of killing Elisabeth Jane Ross and concealing her body in a suitcase in Athens is due in court on Wednesday. The 38-year-old Scottish woman was found in an abandoned building on 18 July. All nine reports confirm the court appearance but differ on details of the discovery.
The European Conservative reported it asAfghan Kills British Woman in Athens, Hides Body in Suitcase (opens The European Conservative in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Mixed factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckmixedCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for The European Conservative.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- europeanconservative.com
- Seen publishing on
- europeanconservative.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 9
- Reports listed
- 9
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
9 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 2 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and The European Conservative ran the story anyway.
Across the 9 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of The European Conservative: its report arrived a median of 31 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 21 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 10 September 2026. Ratings pulled 7 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as The European Conservative, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where The European Conservative publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.