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The case against Turkey
As I landed in Ankara earlier this month, I knew it would not be an easy trip. The Turkish government had declared EU officials unwelcome in response to the European Parliament’s proposal to put a...
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Using copyright laws to protect free speech
A controversial but crucial copyright reform is currently underway in Brussels. The proposed âpublisherâs neighboring rightâ would start to fix a system that undermines publishersâ potential...
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It’s the EU’s birthday. Here’s what the papers are saying.
This weekend, the European Union celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, when Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands created the European Economic Community and...
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In defense of a multispeed Europe
BUDAPEST â In Eastern Europe, opinionmakers are raising the alarm against a recent proposal, supported by France, Germany, Italy and Spain, to create a multispeed European Union. They should instead...
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Why the EU cannot survive unchanged
When they signed the Treaty of Rome 60 years ago, six nations that had been at war for decades took a crucial first step toward establishing an unprecedented period of peace in Europe. But today, the...
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How the EU lost its way
On the bright spring day of March 25, 1957, at the Palazzo de Conservatori, on Capitoline Hill in Rome, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany signed a treaty that...
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Prisoners of semantics
KIEV, Ukraine â Nadiya Kalyn rushed home to watch the two-minute video when it appeared on an anti-government YouTube channel in October. She hadnât seen her husbandâs face since he was taken...
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12 people, things that ruined the EU
BERLIN â Last weekend, European leaders gathered in Rome for the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. They discussed, not for the first time, how to get the EU back on track. And they told each...
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With Brexit, English Channel becomes an ocean
It all looked so different 20 years ago. In his 1996 collection of short stories, âCross Channel,â the English writer Julian Barnes concludes with an imagined near future â round about now â...
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How to relaunch the EU
As Britain pulls the trigger on exit negotiations from the European Union, the one thing the blocâs remaining 27 members can agree on is that itâs in dire need of an overhaul. POLITICO asked seven...
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Brexit could be UK’s ‘govtech’ moment
LONDON â We live our lives digitally. More than ever, we busy, sell transact, tell people where we are, what we’ve seen, what we’re thinking â even what we’ve had for breakfast â online. But the...
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Did Obama blow it on the Russian hacking?
Itâs a question that still rankles many a Clinton loyalist: Why didnât the Obama administration do more to sound the alarm over Russiaâs meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign? Few former...
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EU the biggest loser in Serbia’s elections
BELGRADE â Despite a warm round of congratulations from EU leaders to Aleksandar VuÄiÄ on his presidential victory in Serbia this week, Brussels should be worried about the future of this...
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For unruly members, multi-speed Europe is not the answer
In a rare display of European unity, the EU27 vowed to make the European Union âstronger and more resilient” through greater solidarity and “respect of common rules.” But let us not fool ourselves....
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As goes France, so goes the EU
PARIS â When France sneezes, Europe catches pneumonia. Rarely have the French faced a starker choice of European futures than in this yearâs presidential election, where theyâll vote for...
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Ties that bind Hungary’s Fidesz and European Parliament
Viktor Orbánâs threat to close down the Central European University manages to combine philistinism with stupidity, but it is far from being the first act of institutional vandalism perpetrated in...
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Why Le Pen is cheering for Macron
Emmanuel Macron, the independent liberal candidate who is shaking up Franceâs presidential election, currently enjoys a commanding lead over the center-right nominee, François Fillon. This has put...
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How Trump’s Syria strikes play into Putin’s hand
The Russian reaction to U.S. airstrikes in Syria was a predictable show of disingenuous outrage that bordered on trolling. In comments that echoed the language Western governments use when referring...
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In Ukraine, health care is free (except when it’s not)
BILOZERKA, Ukraine â Itâs an early Saturday afternoon, and almost no personnel are left on duty at the Bilozerka village hospital in the southern Kherson region of Ukraine, not far from...
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Russia’s latest victim in Ukraine — reform
Last month, activists and students barricaded the doors of the central Kiev branch of Sberbank, a Russian state-owned bank. The message: Stop the Kremlin from using profits made in Ukraine to fundÂ...
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