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Putin is paralyzed in crisis – again
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Ukrainian military officials are perplexed. They’d expected a bigger and much more ferocious pushback to their surprise incursion into the Kursk...
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The US divide on foreign policy
Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s Across the Pond...
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How to rein in Russia’s shadow fleet
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. The aging, uninsured vessels with obscure...
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Talk of peace deals in the Levant, Ukraine is for the birds
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. The late American diplomat Richard Holbrooke, broker of the 1995 Dayton Accords ending the Bosnian War, used to say that warring parties will only...
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Photography’s eternal present at Arles
Mark Porter is a travel writer and publisher who lives in Cannes. ARLES, France — Once again, the Roman city in the heart of Provence has given itself over to a riot of dazzling ideas and themes,...
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Meloni will continue to play to the center — for now
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. Withholding her backing for Ursula von der Leyen’s second term as European Commission president, Italian Prime...
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The drift toward unfreedom
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Every generation in a democratic country has had to decide the right balance between individual liberty, national security and community wellbeing....
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Secretive Draghi is echoing Soviet Union restructuring
Izabella Kaminska is senior finance editor at POLITICO Europe. For most of the past year, the big brain of Mario Draghi — Europe’s supreme technocrat — has been holed up in Brussels at the behest of...
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Radical left and radical right have become indistinguishable
John Kampfner is a British author, broadcaster and commentator. His latest book is “In Search of Berlin,” published by Atlantic. Is Sahra Wagenknecht, Germany’s politician of the moment, far right or...
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Le Pen’s dilemma: Tolerate Barnier or unleash the dogs
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. In the six decades of the Fifth Republic, France has had majority governments loyal to the president, majority...
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Zelenskyy’s consolidation of power weakens Ukraine’s resilience
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. KYIV — “Moving the chairs around.” That was a senior Ukrainian official’s take on the cabinet shake-up announced by Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
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As Biden deliberates, Ukraine’s nuclear plants are increasingly at risk
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. KYIV — As the U.S. ponders loosening some of the restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Western-supplied long-range missiles to allow for the targeting of...
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The Red Sea: Time for India’s Modi to step in
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. A second attempt to rescue the Greek tanker...
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Are we asking enough hard questions about Ukraine?
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. KYIV — Are we getting caught in an information trap when it comes to Ukraine? This wouldn’t be unusual — it’s what happened in the run-up to the...
View ArticleIsrael’s message to Hezbollah is falling on deaf ears
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “If Hezbollah didn’t get the message, I promise you, it will get the message,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday. The Israeli...
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EU betting on India and Vietnam for chips
Anchal Vohra is a Brussels-based international affairs commentator. Hoping to diversify supply chains and be less dependent on semiconductor chips from either China or Taiwan, Western countries are...
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What a Trump victory would really mean for Europe
Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s Across the Pond...
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Netanyahu’s high-stakes gamble against Iran
TEL AVIV — It was Israel’s Osama bin Laden moment. And much like Americans danced outside the White House after news broke that the author of 9/11 had been shot dead, the assassination of longtime...
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Hezbollah’s fatal miscalculations
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. TEL AVIV, Israel — “We are winning.” That’s the unwavering refrain from senior Israeli officials when asked about where all the warfare roiling the...
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Budget will be key to Barnier’s survival
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. French Prime Minister Michel Barnier inherited a deep fiscal crisis, which has only grown deeper during his...
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Doing a Gaza in Lebanon isn’t the answer
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “I say to you, the people of Lebanon: Free your country from Hezbollah so that this war can end.” That was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
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Sinwar might be gone, but Israel’s mission is far from over
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. In his final minutes, sitting slumped and wounded in a chair, Yahya Sinwar — the man who masterminded the worst mass slaughter of Jews since the...
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We need a whole-of-society approach to intelligence
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. A nondescript suite of rooms in an office...
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Europe or Russia? For Georgians, the choice isn’t so simple
TBILISI — Am I delusional? Reporting on Georgian politics ahead of Saturday’s decisive parliamentary elections, I find myself struggling with this question over and over again. Turn on the TV here,...
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While war continues, Lebanon is trapped
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. BEIRUT, Lebanon — Last week, German Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock became the latest in a long line of Western diplomats dispatched...
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Does Germany still believe in Europe?
John Kampfner is a British author, broadcaster and commentator. His latest book is “In Search of Berlin,” published by Atlantic. He is a regular POLITICO columnist. Nobody in Europe showers German...
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The Middle East’s deadly doom loop
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. BEIRUT — Dazed and exhausted, a Lebanese Shiite mother of four gestures to her baby bump — her fifth child is weeks away from arriving. For the past...
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Europe should hope for a Trump victory
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. A profound sense of malaise has taken over the EU. Politics within the bloc’s two largest member countries,...
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The end of Pax Americana
Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s Across the Pond...
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With Trump, Netanyahu’s got his work cut out for him
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping Iran’s ayatollahs will live to regret their murder-for-hire plots against U.S. President-elect...
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Trump threatens to be good for Ukraine, actually
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. If U.S. President-elect Donald Trump manages to engineer a peace deal and bring the Ukraine war to a close he’ll likely get no thanks for it — even...
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