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Why Warsaw loves to hate Brussels
WARSAW â The Polish government is turning up the volume on Brussels-bashing. Answering “why now?” reveals little about what’s happening in the EU â and a lot about what’s happening inside the...
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Real victim of Trump’s NATO outburst: The US
The partnership between Europe and the United States will survive Donald Trumpâs performance at NATO headquarters last week. The U.S. presidentâs brusque behavior and intemperate words may haveÂ...
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Anarchic Athens finds a new cause: Ukraine
ATHENS â The neighborhood of Exarchia in central Athens has always been home to those who fight the system. Before Prime Minister Alexis Tsiprasâ left-wing Syriza Party came to power in 2015,...
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When going home is a death sentence
KABUL, Afghanistan â The moment you step outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, the first thing that strikes you are the roses. They are everywhere â lining the dusty motorway into town,...
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How to fight terror: Start with the facts
Terrorist attacks are designed to instill fear and put entire cities under virtual siege. In Europe, the strategy seems to be working. Governments are responding to a string of high-profile terrorist...
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The morning after Jeremy Corbyn wins
LONDON â It would be the most shocking election result since, well, since Donald Trump captured the White House. Or Britain voted to leave the European Union. Or the Conservatives won their first...
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Donald Trump and the wrath of Khan
NEW YORK â What would Winston Churchill have made of the public pissing match between Donald Trump and Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London? When the old British bulldog coined the phrase âspecial...
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Silvio, Dudù and the Donald
ROME â By now, itâs a cliché of Italian politics. But Italy is a cliché writ large, so here we go. Silvio is back. The billionaire media mogul is again the man of the moment, they say, a...
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Qatar’s maverick days near their end
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates â Visiting Qatar not long ago, it would have been hard to imagine the tiny peninsula becoming the pariah of the Middle East. But today it seems to be just that. For...
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Theresa May, the new Hillary Clinton
LONDON â She was well ahead in the polls but ran a lousy campaign. Robotic, uninspiring, buttoned-up, inflexible, humorless, charmless and formulaic, she repelled voters even though she was vastly...
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How to fix Europe’s ‘rule of law’ blindspot
BERLIN â For too long, the only option for sanctioning an EU member that deviated from democratic norms has been the suspension of its voting rights in European institutions. This process has been...
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Muslims’ unique responsibility to fight terror
SAYLORSBURG, Pennsylvania â The brutal, deadly attacks in London and Manchester on innocent civilians are the latest in a series of senseless violent acts carried out by the so-called Islamic...
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Why foreign aid is critical to U.S. national security
In our active duty days, we were honored to help lead the finest fighting force in the world and we strongly support an increase in military spending to maintain the readiness of those forces. But our...
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Speechwriter who helped Reagan ‘tear down that wall’
STANFORD, California â Today, June 12, marks the 30th anniversary of the most subversive speech of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, a speech delivered in a divided German capital that became a point of...
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With London in turmoil, Tories play the Scotland card
EDINBURGH â A century ago, the guiding dictum of the Irish independence struggle was that âEnglandâs difficulty is Irelandâs opportunity.â Now, in the wake of an inconclusive British general...
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Only debt relief will end the Greek crisis
ATHENS â As Greece heads into another meeting of eurozone finance ministers, it finds itself in a painfully familiar position: in desperate need of more bailout funding and a dose of clarity about...
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Europe’s defense fund ignores real threat: populism
The European Unionâs recently launched defense fund has been widely praised as a long-overdue step toward defense autonomy, a real game-changer at a time when the United States has become an...
View ArticleMartin Schulz needs a refresher course on EU ‘subsidies’
As POLITICO reported (Martin Schulz to Viktor Orbán: No refugees means no subsidies, June 13), German Social Democrat leader Martin Schulz said he would push the European Union to cut off subsidies...
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Helmut Kohl, provincial warhorse
LONDON â Helmut Kohl, who has died at the age of 87, was not only the longest-serving of postwar German chancellors, winning four elections from 1982 to 1998. He was, and remained, the most...
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Emmanuel Macron, the Élysée’s Dorian Gray
PARIS â Since his election, at the end of an epic campaign that redrew the battle lines of French politics, the eight president of the Fifth Republic is undeniably the man of the moment. Emmanuel...
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