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Germany 2025: Reform or more gloom?
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. Germany is a country far more...
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Always look on the bright side of life — why 2025 might be better
No doubt our media rivals will run traditional end-of-year reviews bewailing how next year will suck more than the previous 12 months. But POLITICO is determinedly boosterish about 2025 and instead is...
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What a non-handshake tells us about Syria’s new ruler
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. There’s a lot in a handshake — and a lot in its absence too. Remember the awkwardness when a tense President Donald Trump and then-German...
View ArticleJean-Marie Le Pen, father of the French far right, is dead at 96
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the longtime face of the far right in France notorious for his hate speech and Holocaust denial convictions, has died, the political party he founded said in a statement. He was 96...
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There is no such thing as good nuclear proliferation
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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Trump’s chaos agents descend on Europe — and squabble
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Revolutions have a tendency to eat their own — just look at how French and Russian revolutionaries murderously turned on each other. But at least...
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‘Optimism laced with caution’: The delicate task of Syria’s political transition
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Freed from the Assad family and its apparatus of cruel repression, Syrians remain euphoric about the sudden collapse of a regime that ruled by...
View ArticleTrump was ‘the closer’ on Gaza cease-fire deal
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. WASHINGTON — “Is that a joke?” That was U.S. President Joe Biden’s response when asked whether it was him or President-elect Donald Trump who should...
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Abandoned and nowhere to go: A snapshot of migrant domestic workers stranded...
OPTICS Abandoned and nowhere to go: A snapshot of migrant domestic workers stranded in Lebanon War is a magnifier of the best and worst of human behavior, and it’s often those already vulnerable who...
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Triumphalism reigns in Washington — for now
WASHINGTON, D.C. — There’s a crackle of retribution in the air. Get on side — that’s the message from MAGA loyalists. And Steve Bannon, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist and host...
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Let’s get creative to protect undersea cables from sabotage
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, the author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. On Christmas Day last year, Finland received a...
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Germany’s Trump problem
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. Berlin has no shortage of august...
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Ukraine is pinning hopes on Putin exasperating Trump
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. WASHINGTON, D.C. — When it comes to a possible peace deal to end the ongoing war in Ukraine, U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian officials are...
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Orbán’s power to disrupt is exaggerated
Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. He tweets at @Mij_Europe. One of the biggest concerns among Europe’s leaders today is that U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to the...
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Germany’s far right crashes through the firewall
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. Germany has fallen into a deep...
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Europe should have grown up a long time ago — now with Trump there’s no choice
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Who would ever have imagined we’d find ourselves in circumstances that would prompt France to offer Denmark military support, hoping to deter...
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Why Starmer might need to bring back Blair
Tim Ross is POLITICO’s chief political correspondent for Europe and the U.K. His most recent book, “Landslide: The Inside Story of the 2024 Election,” was published in November. A year after his...
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Trump wants to tax the world
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. With United States President Donald Trump poised to turn on Europe, the world is bracing for a high-stakes multi-front trade war between the U.S....
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Like it or not, the rules-based order is no more
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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Trump’s Gaza fantasy is a recipe for a forever war
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. U.S. President Donald Trump wants to take over Gaza and transform it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” where “the world’s people” can live....
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Lithuania hopes to woo Trump with its anti-China stance
Anchal Vohra is a Brussels-based international affairs commentator. A few days after a Chinese ship was suspected of severing two telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea last November, Lithuania...
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Germany’s old-school conservatism is well and truly over
John Kampfner is a British author, broadcaster and commentator. His latest book “In Search of Berlin” is published by Atlantic. He is a regular POLITICO columnist. You know that Christian democracy is...
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Riding out the Trump tiger until he’s exhausted
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. With the exception of far-right allies like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, European leaders are still scratching their heads, trying to...
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Germany’s disappearing green agenda
John Kampfner is a British author, broadcaster and commentator. His latest book “In Search of Berlin” is published by Atlantic. He is a regular POLITICO columnist. This is a tale of two cities, two...
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Is this the end of NATO?
MUNICH — U.S. President Donald Trump is a longtime fan of Winston Churchill. But what would Britain’s iconic wartime leader make of the Munich Security Conference in 2025? “You were given the choice...
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The fight for Europe is on
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. MUNICH — This year’s disquieting Munich Security Conference was framed by two dueling speeches from U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian...
View ArticleUkrainian hopes fading as Trump and Putin embrace
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has tested a variety of tactics to try and manage United States President Donald Trump, from flattering him...
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We need a new transatlantic bargain
Ivo Daalder is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and former U.S. ambassador to NATO. Camille Grand is a distinguished policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and former...
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Does Merz have what it takes?
John Kampfner is a British author, broadcaster and commentator. His latest book “In Search of Berlin” is published by Atlantic. He is a regular POLITICO columnist. In times of crisis, Germany’s...
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Elections now would be perilous for Ukraine
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. As U.S. President Donald Trump and his MAGA ideologues cascade a litany of alternative facts, accuracy isn’t high on their list of priorities. So is...
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Can Germany’s humbled political establishment regroup?
John Kampfner is a British author, broadcaster and commentator. His latest book “In Search of Berlin” is published by Atlantic. He is a regular POLITICO columnist. Friedrich Merz is Germany’s next...
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