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Why young French voters won’t vote (and why they should)
PARIS â Ni Patrie, Ni Patron. Ni Le Pen, Ni Macron. The words appeared in graffiti and painted on posters in the streets of Paris the day after the first round of the presidential election. Unable...
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Sean Spicer is doing a good job. Here’s why
White House press secretary Sean Spicer has one of the hardest jobs in Washington. Heâs almost constantly under fire from an increasingly unsympathetic public and the frustrated reporters he works...
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Emmanuel Macron’s bittersweet victory
After the shock of Brexit in June and the surprise victory of Donald Trump in November, France experienced a political earthquake of a different kind Sunday by electing a progressive, unabashedly...
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Inertia, revolt will test Macron’s reformism
PARIS â In France, efforts at reform often end in tears, if not in blood. The countryâs newly elected president, Emmanuel Macron, will need steely determination and all his youthful intellectual...
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British football braces for life after Brexit
As the English Premier League season builds to a climax on the field, club owners are fretting over Britainâs looming exit from Europe. Theirs is a dominant global brand, one whose income dwarfs...
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How to revive TTIP
FLORENCE, Italy â Looking back on the three years I served as U.S. ambassador to the European Union, my greatest regret is that we were unable to conclude the Transatlantic Trade and Investment...
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Marine Le Pen may have lost, but the Kremlin is winning
MOSCOW â The Kremlin has, for years now, been a destabilizing force in the EU. Should the bloc dissolve tomorrow, itâs not hard to imagine Russian politicians taking to the streets to pop...
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Get ready for the Franco-German revival
PARIS â It was a flawless debut on the European stage for French president Emmanuel Macron. On his first working day in office, the centrist leader sent Berlin a strong signal that he is ready to...
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Macron is bad news for Britain’s borders
French President Emmanuel Macronâs victory in France was greeted across Europe with an audible sigh of relief, and now many across the Continent are watching eagerly to see if he can carry out the...
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Only winner of Britain’s election will be populism
LONDON â The United Kingdomâs snap general election on June 8 could be the first vote in the country to see both major party leaders running for office as populists. Even as the Labour Partyâs...
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Why Catalonia will take the future into its own hands
BARCELONA, Spain â Supporters of Catalan independence are often asked why they arenât happy with their regionâs level of autonomy. The short answer is simple: We want to live in our own country,...
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Donald Trump: Welcome to the ‘hellhole’ that is Brussels
Donât worry. Thisâll be short â and all about you. As youâve pointed out, Brussels is a hellhole, but Belgium really is a beautiful city. Itâs home, as you know, to NATO, which used to be,...
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After Manchester, Brits to keep calm and carry on at ballot box
Despite its timing and brute emotional force, the devastating Manchester suicide-bomb attack is unlikely to have a large impact on the British election next month. Fear of terrorism will not...
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Europe’s papers: Don’t make Trump mad
The Donald Trump circus is in town. For the European leg of his first foreign tour, the scandal-ridden U.S. president will meet national leaders for a NATO meeting in Brussels before moving south for...
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Trump and Europe, trading places
When Donald Trump won the American presidency last November, the European establishment slipped from deep funk (over Brexit, terrorism, euro troubles, migration, populism) into full depression. Six...
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Germany’s liberal comeback: a safe protest vote
BERLIN â Christian Lindner is, on the face of it, the closest thing Germany has to French President and political golden boy Emmanuel Macron. Heâs more charismatic than conservative Chancellor...
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G7 must face down Russia or suffer disaster
KIEV â In 1936, when Winston Churchill cautioned that the “era of procrastination” was coming to an end and that the world was entering a “period consequences,” his warning had already gone unheeded...
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What Orwell saw — and what he missed — about today’s world
While spending the last three years immersed in the works of George Orwell for a book I was researching and writing, I often was struck by how often his writing speaks to the problems of today....
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Battle of the British nationalisms
LONDON â Western nations have a habit of pushing what they consider âundesirableâ nationalism to the periphery of political debate. Mainstream parties sideline rivals by depicting their appeal...
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Merkel’s thunderbolt is starting gun for European defense drive
PARIS â Angela Merkel rarely drops thunderbolts, and never by accident. The cautious, conservative German chancellor, who has governed mostly incrementally for 12 years, has made two such...
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